Most important databases
PubMed is a free service
of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from Medline and other
life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full
text articles and other related resources.
Coverage: 1950-
Users: unlimited
Free resource
Maintained
by the National Library of Medicine and includes information
from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted
sources. It contains references
to the latest health professional articles, a medical encyclopedia
and dictionary, and drug information.
Coverage: n/a
Users: unlimited
Free resource
Provides access to medical
journal and magazine articles, a medical encyclopedia, and dictionary. Directories of medical organizations
and drugs are provided along with a health assessment tool. Many medical, health, and alternative
medicine topics are covered.
Coverage: 1980-
Users:
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Other helpful databases
Contains citations and abstracts related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline.
Coverage: 1990-
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Produced by the American Dietetic Association, this is the preeminent source of research-based nutrition information and clinical tools available to dietitians, dietetic technicians and other health care professionals.
Coverage: n/a
Users:1
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains the citations and abstracts for articles in 11,000 English and foreign
language journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, theses, and patents.
Areas covered are agriculture, forestry, nutrition, veterinary
medicine, the environment, and many related subjects including animal
sciences, crop production, genetics, horticulture, agricultural
economics, rural development, plant pathology, agricultural
engineering, and recreation, leisure, & tourism. 60%
of the database's documents are in English. Journal articles
comprise 85% of the database.
Coverage: 1910-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) provides bibliographic references
to over 1200 serial publications, books, pamphlets and dissertations, including nursing, biomedical
and behavioral science, education, management and popular literature publications. Some records
contain the full text.
Coverage: 1982-
Users: 25 pooled
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences from scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications. Coverage includes agricultural biotechnology, air quality, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements, hazardous waste, pollution (land, air, water, noise), toxicology & toxic emissions, and waste management.
Coverage: 1967-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains more than 104,000 records covering ergonomics and human
factors as well as related material from psychology, physiology,
biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety
science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health,
sport, and transport.
Coverage: 1985-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Indexes 1,800 publications
in 40 different languages. Subjects included cover all human food commodities and aspects of food
processing from the production of raw food to the consumption of finished foods. Also included
are economics, standards, legislation, and engineering relating to food science and technology.
Coverage: 1969-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
A multidisciplinary collection of electronic reference books. Subjects include business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, and science. To search a specific reference book, click the plus (+) sign to show publication titles, then click the title you wish to search. Otherwise, you will be searching all the reference books simultaneously.
Coverage: n/a
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides abstracts and citations
for 3500 international journals, books, theses, and more. Subjects covered are human nutrition,
public health and veterinary public health, disease, and other health and medical topics.
Coverage: 1973-
Users: 4
Paid for by K-State Libraries
An easy-to-use database
that provides bibliographic references, abstracts, and full text for excerpts and articles from
health publications. Material includes a medical dictionary; medical directories and reference
books; consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by leading health
organizations. There are also specially selected health articles from general-interest, business,
and specialty publications.
Coverage: 1980-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides access to medical journal and magazine articles, a medical encyclopedia, and dictionary for consumers.
Coverage: 1984-
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
This National Library of Medicine database has hazardous chemical data on a large number of household products such as cleaning materials, pesticides, cosmetics, etc. Searching can be done by product types, ingredients, and the big ones, company or product names.
Coverage: n/a
Users: unlimited
Free resource
Evaluate and compare journals
in the sciences and social sciences using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical
journals. JCR is related to Web of Science and is based on similar data. Use JCR to find the
most frequently cited journals in a field and/or a journal's impact factor, among other information.
Coverage: 2002-
Users: 8
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Comprehensive compilation of the methods used in the study of
enzymes. Work in enzymology occurs in chemistry, biochemistry,
and practically all branches of biological and medical sciences.
This online resource provides full-text access to all 409
plus volumes in the series.
Coverage: 1955-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
PILOTS is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction,Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.
Coverage: 1871-
Users: unlimited
Free resource
Contains citations, abstracts,
and full-text of nursing and allied health publications.
Coverage: varies by title
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
An international database
for the subjects of sports, sports medicine, physical fitness, physical education, physiology
and medicine. SportDiscus also provides indexing of the Microform Publications
collection of dissertations and theses of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance.
Coverage: 1830-
Users: 4
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Online version
of the three Citation Indexes: Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In
addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 8,000 journals, one
can do a "cited reference" search to see how frequently
and where an article has been cited. Web of Science is one of our best databases. Also an excellent source for finding
book reviews.
Coverage: Science
1945-; Social Sciences 1956-; Arts & Humanities 1975-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries