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Consumer health information. Access to nearly 300 full-text consumer health periodicals with indexing and abstracts for more than 300 additional periodicals. Full-text access to a variety of pamphlets and health reference books.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title, 1985 (some) - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals.
Specific, detailed answers to clinical questions in nursing, sports and exercise sciences, communication disorders, and psychology. Original content that is written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of more than 5,100 leading physicians. Content includes over 9,500 topics in 21 specialties, a drug database and drug interactions program, 135 Medical calculators, What’s New (summary of important new findings by specialty), and patient education materials.
Focuses on the full spectrum of complementary and alternative medicine (including herbs, massage, macrobiotics and acupuncture). Many of the 140 full-text journals take a holistic, integrative approach.
Coverage: Varies by title. Mostly mid90s - present., Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type.
Consumer health information. Access to nearly 300 full-text consumer health periodicals with indexing and abstracts for more than 300 additional periodicals. Full-text access to a variety of pamphlets and health reference books.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title, 1985 (some) - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals.
Medical information in Spanish, geared to consumer interests. Full-text sources.
Format: Full-text, Coverage: Varies by title, mostly 1998 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
International coverage of all areas of medicine (clinical and experimental), dentistry, nursing, health services administration, etc. Interface through EBSCO will link to full-text articles, in addition to citations and abstracts. Uses MeSH headings. Can limit results by gender, age, and subject subsets such as Cancer or Systematic Reviews.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies, begins as early as 1965, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
Focus is on the consumer health researcher, but all information presented about various alternative treatments is based on double-blind studies: the gold standard in medical testing. Browse only, no search function is provided. The initial screen lists Conditions, Herbs & Supplements, Drug Interactions, Alternative Therapies, and Functional Foods. The categories are briefly described.
Format: Full-text, Coverage: Current, Truncation and Wildcard: No and No, Search Tips: Use the a-z list under each category for navigation. To see all the articles in a major grouping, either click the group heading or select ALL from the a-z list.
More than 24 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.