Library Subject Portals: Nursing: Databases

Biomedical (Full-Text and Non-Full-Text) / Social Sciences / Miscellaneous

Biomedical – Full-Text

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

CINAHL, is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 880,000 records.
CINAHL is available through EBSCOhost or Ovid.
Ovid requires LSUHSC (LSUMC-MASTER) userID and password.

Medline

Medline is available through Ovid or PubMed.
Medline includes the International Nursing Index.
Ovid requires LSUHSC (LSUMC-MASTER) userID and password.

Clinical Pharmacology

Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
Clinical Pharmacology is available through EBSCOhost.

The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library contains databases on Evidence-Based Medicine.
Access is restricted to the Shreveport campus, and IP validated.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is available through EBSCOhost.

MD Consult

MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. These include online books, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, and patient information.
MD Consult is IP Validated.

MICROMEDEX

A full-text database of drug information.
Requires LSUHSC (LSUMC-MASTER) userID and password for those off campus.

NursingConsult

An integrated, searchable online library of books, journals, patient handouts and other resources in nursing from the publishers of MDConsult. Access is IP validated.

TOXNET

A collection of full text and bibliographic toxicology databases by the National Library of Medicine.

UpToDate

UpToDate, a full-text online resource intended to quickly answer practical clinical questions at the point of care.
UpToDate uses IP validation, so a userID and password is not needed--simply point your web browser at http://www.utdol.com.

 

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Biomedical – Non-Full-Text

HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments

HAPI provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health and psychosocial sciences fields.
HAPI is available through Ovid.
Ovid requires LSUHSC (LSUMC-MASTER) userID and password.

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Social Sciences – Full-Text

PsycINFO

PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
PsycINFO is available through EBSCOhost.

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Miscellaneous – Full-Text

ERIC

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
ERIC is available through EBSCOhost or CSA.

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