Emmanuel d'Alzon Library

Health Sciences Databases

Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,970 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Full text and abstracts from 1958 to present.

AGRICOLA
Available via FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1970 to the present. Materials are relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry and animal science from over 5000 sources.

ClasePeriodica -
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities from 1975 to the present.

CQ Researcher
Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Credo Reference Medical resources
Search six browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers in the medical field.

Encyclopedia Americana
Contains additional materials, including maps, flags, tables, and links to related sites on the World Wide Web.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Coverage is from 1980 to the present. This is a database of periodicals covering all major academic disciplines including many in full text.

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Presents current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy.

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Includes entries covering cancers, cancer drugs, treatments, side effects, and diagnostic procedures.

Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.

General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.

Health Reference Center Academic
Coverage is from 1980 to the present. This is a database of articles including some full text on various topics.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
Personal narratives- the most comprehensive archive of social memory. Covers many topics including historical events and people from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th.

Issues & Controversies
Source of current, in-depth and objective information on hotly debated issues of the day.

LexisNexis
Available via LexisNexis. This is a full text database, updated daily, which provides access to news, business, legal and reference information.

Medline (Web of Knowledge)
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It covers 3,300 major journals across 100 scientific disciplines.More than 600,000 new items are indexed each year.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Available via Silver Platter. Coverage is from 1938 to the present. This database contains full text information about English language standardized tests and also contains test reviews. This is the online version of the printed volumes.

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists.

PsycINFO
Available via EBSCO. Coverage is from 1887 to the present. This is comprehensive international coverage os scholarly literature in psychology. Includes articles from more than 1300 periodicals in over 25 languages.

PubMed
Available via the National Library of Medicine. Coverage is from the 1960s to the present. This is a comprehensive index to articles in the field of medicine.

Science Direct
(For full text, set Source to Subscribed journals) Collection of 174 E-journals with emphasis on science.

Science Online
A complete reference database containing thousands of entries covering almost many science fields.

Web of Knowledge (formerly Science Citation Index Expanded-Web of Science)
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It covers 3,300 major journals across 100 scientific disciplines. More than 600,000 new items are indexed each year.