Research Guides: Integrative Healthcare (ITP): Scholarly Resources

Health & Medicine

PubMed This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Index to professional literature in nursing and allied health fields including veterinary technology, medical imaging and therapies. Limited to 20 simultaneous users shared with CSU and UNC.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Based on the best available information about healthcare interventions, Cochrane reviews explore the evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness of treatments (medications, surgery, education, etc) in specific circumstances.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based, clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. Includes clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics. Ability to subscribe to the free newsletter, DynaMed Weekly Update.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Massive collection of scholarly materials covers virtually all topic areas. Content, including articles, proceedings, and more, is pulled from various collections and is cross-searchable.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Indexes periodicals, theses, conferences and other writings on sports, leisure, and physical fitness.

Alternative & Complementary Medicine

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) This link opens in a new window
Specialized bibliographic database designed for physicians, therapists, medical researchers, historians, and clinicians to learn about alternative and allied therapies and related subjects. Includes a range of international titles.
NatMed Pro (formerly Natural Medicines) This link opens in a new window
Natural Medicines is an authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies.

American Botanical Council
Scientific resources on herbal medicine from the American Botanical Council including the journal Herbalgram, a clinical guide to herbs, Commission E information, HerbPro, and HerbClip, a searchable database of reviews on current journal articles from a variety of publications.
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Compiled "rather randomly from the literature on economic plants" this database is nonetheless extensive and informative. Dr. Jim Duke has devoted a lifetime to studying botanical medicines. Check out his books.
Cochrane Complementary Medicine
Cochrane Complementary Medicine seeks to identify Cochrane reviews related to complementary, alternative and integrative medicine, and disseminate these reviews to clinicians, researchers, patients, policy-makers and other stakeholders.
Mayo Clinic Drugs & Supplements Database
A directory of prescription and over-the-counter drug and supplement information.
Dietary Supplement Label Database
The National Institutes of Health's Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) includes current and historical label information from products marketed in the U.S.

Psychology & Behavioral Science

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Major indexing and abstracting database covering psychology, social work, educational psychology, and related disciplines.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
APA 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.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text multidisciplinary database of journals in the social and behavioral sciences, focusing on psychiatry & psychology and also including journals from the following disciplines: counseling, sociology & social work, medicine & health.
APA PsycTests This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments on a variety of subjects, as well as descriptive information about each test and its development and administration. Many (but not all) of the tests can be downloaded and used by researchers, and often contain scoring guides and instructions on how to use the test.