Helpful Library databases
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UpToDate This link opens in a new windowSpecific, 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.
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Full-text, searchable access to more than 175 specific encyclopedias in many subjects, including business, social sciences, history, biography, religion, popular culture, and much more.
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MEDLINE (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. With coverage from 1946 to the present, the database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM controlled vocabulary.
The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.
Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine. -
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowAn expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. Provides citations and abstracts for over 5,400 nursing journals, as well as books, conferences, software, and audiovisual material. Provides the full text for over 1,300 of those journals.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Broad science coverage, emphasizing life sciences, health sciences, engineering, earth sciences, agriculture, and pharmacology. Full text from over 3800 journals and chapters from over 5300 books. Also includes business, management and accounting; economics, econometrics and finance, and social science.
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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windowFormerly Health Reference Center: Academic.
Integrated collection of medical and professional periodicals, general interest health and fitness magazines, medical references and pamphlets. Designed for nursing and allied health students. More than 14,000 full-text publications, over 5,000 of which are peer-reviewed journals.
Useful Web Sources
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has great information on present outbreaks, including COVID-19 and Ebola.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a wealth of information on the COVID-19 Pandemic and on Ebola virus disease. You may want to check out Disease Outbreak News, which provides information on confirmed acute public health events or potential events of concern.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has information on the United States government's response to COVID-19. (FDA en español: Enfermedad del Coronavirus (COVID-19)
National Public Radio is a great source for in depth reporting and stories on COVID-19, especially in their Health section.
The DSHS Texas COVID-19 Surveillance Archives is maintained by the Texas Department of State Health Services, and has data through January 18, 2024. Beginning with January 19, 2024, the DSHS combined the individual weekly flue, RSV, and COVID-19 surveillance reports into the Texas Respiratory Virus Surveillance Report, which is posted every Friday. Historical Texas COVID-19 Data has historical data available for download.
Newspapers
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New York Times (1851-2017) from ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Images of all material published in this important U.S. newspaper. Articles, advertising, letters, funeral notices and photos are all included. Fully searchable and browsable.
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Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window
Formerly InfoTrac Newsstand. Articles from over 1,000 newspapers in the United States and worldwide. Includes Austin American-Statesman (1996+), and The Houston Chronicle (1996+). National newspapers include The New York Times (1985+), and The Christian Science Monitor (1997+). International papers include the London Times (1985+) and the Times of India (2005+).