Research Guides: Alternative & Complementary Medicine: Scholarly Sources

Key Databases

PubMed

Comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
CINAHL

Index to professional literature in nursing and allied health fields including veterinary technology, dentistry, nutrition, occupational health, biomedicine, medical imaging and therapies. Limited to 20 simultaneous users shared with CSU and UNC.
OVID

A database interface that searches for biomedical books, literature, technical reports, and consumer handouts in Allied and Complementary Health (AMED), PubMed, APA PsycArticles, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), and the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence-Based Practice.
Health and Wellness

Provides access to more than 1,000 journals and 200 eBooks related to health sciences, nursing, public health, addiction, disease surveillance, gerontology, anatomy, speech-language pathology, and more.
American Botanical Council (ABC) Library

Herbal medicine information including access to the COMMISSION E MONOGRAPHS, HerbalGram, the HerbClip Online and Healthy Ingredients databases, and the reference books: ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs and The Identification of Medicinal Plants.
Web of Science

Index of scholarly materials with comprehensive coverage of the sciences and socials sciences with some coverage of the arts and humanities. Includes citations and citation tracking for articles, journals, proceedings, conference papers, and more and is pulled from various collections. Includes links to Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

Cochrane Library
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Dynamed
Completely reimagined for today’s clinicians, DynaMed combines the highest quality evidence-based information, expert guidance and a user-friendly, personalized experience to deliver accurate answers fast at the point of care.
Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED)
A unique bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine.

Journals

Acupuncture in Medicine: Journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society
This journal "aims to promote the scientific understanding of acupuncture and related treatments by publishing scientific investigations of their effectiveness and modes of action as well as articles on their use in health services and clinical practice."
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine
"This journal is supervised by State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, sponsored by Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. It is the first international peer-reviewed monthly journal on integrative medicine included in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E)."
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
This is "an internationally refereed journal published to meet the broad ranging needs of the healthcare profession in the effective and professional integration of complementary therapies within clinical practice."
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
This is "an international, peer-reviewed journal that has considerable appeal to anyone who seeks objective and critical information on complementary therapies or who wishes to deepen their understanding of these approaches."
Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
A bimonthly open-access journal that covers the fields of traditional medicine, herbal medicine, and dietary therapy. The Journal provides a global platform for discussion, perspectives and research on traditional and Complementary medicine.
Chinese Medicine
An open access journal publishing evidence-based, scientifically justified research and review papers in all aspects of Chinese medicine, including - but not limited to - chemistry, biology, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, engineering, clinical applications and socioeconomics that are relevant and significant to Chinese medicine.
Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access, biomedical journal whose aim is to create a global platform for hypothesis-driven and evidence-based research in all fields of integrative medicine