Subject Specific Periodical Databases

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• Medicine/Health
• CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied
  Health Literature
• Proquest Nursing Journal Collection

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• Medicine/Health
• CINAHL Indexes approx. 1,200 journals in health
  and medicine
• (CINAHL is NOT a full text database)
• Proquest Nursing Journal Collection provides
  approx. 250 full text titles, and is a subset of
  CINAHL.

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• Medicine/Health
• Health Reference Center Academic Version
• Indexes approx. 200 health/medical publications
• Provides full text of 180 titles
• Includes medical reference books and pamphlets

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• Medicine/Health
• Medline (OCLC version and FREE Internet Version)
• Most comprehensive index of medical literature.
  Indexes to the mid 1960s.
• Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
• Indexes over 4,000 international journals in
  medicine, and life sciences.

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• Medline
• Includes dentistry, nutrition, experimental
  medicine, veterinary medicine, etc.
• Uses MeSH Terms (Medical Subject Headings), a
  controlled vocabulary created by the National
  Library of Medicine.
• Some full text available (not a lot)

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• Medline
• Internet (free) version
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
  (see link from library
• Homepage)
• OR
• Access through OCLC FirstSearch Collection of
  Databases

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• HISTORY
• America History and Life
• Indexes and abstracts of journal articles in
  North American history.
• Prehistoric to present
• Approx. 1,800 journals covered.
• Includes Clio Notes and chronologies, and
  bibliographies
• Includes Clio Alerts service

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Subject Specific Periodical Databases

• HISTORY
• Historical Abstracts
• Indexes and abstracts journal articles in world
  history (excluding North America)
• 1450- present
• Approx. 1,800 journals in 50 languages
• Includes Clio Notes, chronologies, and
  bibliographies
• Includes Clio Alerts service