Research Guides: Health & Medicine: Article Databases

Databases

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 21 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 websites

BioMed Central
Provides free access to biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. Offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.

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.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic 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.
Health and Wellness This link opens in a new window
Index to medical reference materials, magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, a drug finder, directories, and government information. Includes Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, and health videos from Healthology, Inc., pamphlets and health-related articles from general interest publications.
Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
Index to magazines and journals in the health and related fields, many articles available online. Provides access to the full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the personal health information sources in the Health Reference Center.
NCBI Databases This link opens in a new window
(U.S. National Library of Medicine) System for searching simultaneously in multiple NIH databases. Currently it searches Medline/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LOCATORplus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and HSDB.
OVID This link opens in a new window
A large, searchable collection of biomedical books, journals, technical reports, and information sheets.

PLoS Medicine
Open access to peer-reviewed medical articles.

Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Information on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, including vegetarianism, massage, medicinal herbs, yoga, homeopathic medicine, hypnosis, Chinese medicine, acupuncture and more.
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.
CAM on PubMed This link opens in a new window
Articles on complementary medicine.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Formerly the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).

Public Health Resources

Public health involves the physical, mental and environmental health of communities. It includes assessment and monitoring of the health of at risk populations, formulating public policies, and facilitating knowledge of and access to appropriate, cost-effective health care. Because public health is by definition an interdisciplinary effort you will need to investigate resources from many fields including education, environmental sciences, and behavioral sciences. We've listed some key databases in other fields below.

Colorado Health and Environmental Data
Provides interactive access to data on Colorado Health Indicators, Colorado's Winnable Battles, Environmental Public Health Tracking and the CDPHE Data Request System of the Colorado Health Information Datasets (CoHID). Data is included on topics such as access to healthy food, birth and death rates and causes, and skin cancer.

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database that provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences covering such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses. Â Includes abstracts and citations from scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Includes AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management), Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and Conference Papers Index. Previously known as Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management.
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.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and full text of journal articles and non-journal literature (aka ERIC documents or ED documents) selected by the Educational Resources Information Center using the EBSCO interface. Future additions to the EBSCO collection may include audio and video materials.