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Best Bet Databases in Health & Medicine
PubMed
National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present. Public access version.
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Web of Science
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Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language journals. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.
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Academic Search Premier
A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present.
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Health Reference Center Academic
Journal articles and health-related pamphlets, and entries from selected reference publications relating to health and allied health, 1996-present.
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CINAHL
Current Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature includes journal articles and other material on nursing and allied health fields, 1982-present.
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National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present. Public access version.
| Also known as: | MEDLINE |
Web of Science
Doesn't work with Internet Explorer 9. Works poorly with Safari.
Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language journals. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.
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Academic Search Premier
A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present.
More About Use
Health Reference Center Academic
Journal articles and health-related pamphlets, and entries from selected reference publications relating to health and allied health, 1996-present.
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CINAHL
Current Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature includes journal articles and other material on nursing and allied health fields, 1982-present.
| Also known as: | Current Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
Additional Databases in Health & Medicine
CQ Researcher
Well-documented full text overviews of current issues, including bibliographies and chronologies. Produced by Congressional Quarterly, 1991-present.
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Education Journals
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Articles from 550 periodicals in the field of primary, secondary and higher education, 1988-present.
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ERIC
Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are in Microforms, Floor 3. Public access version.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to the humanities, social sciences, and non-technical general sciences, 1980-present.
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Google Scholar
Use within UMass’ IP range to access many UMass online journal subscriptions. In Scholar Preferences, you can choose to export citations to RefWorks bibliographic manager.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Citations to articles which discuss or (occasionally) reprint tests and measures in the social sciences and various health fields, 1985-present
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Interactive Functional Anatomy
Three dimensional, rotatable model of human anatomy, with removable layers.
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National Technical Information Service: NTIS
Citations to government-sponsored technical research from agencies, academia, and industry. For access to full text, ask Gov Docs staff (545-6895) to check Library’s large uncataloged collection of NTIS reports on microfiche.
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PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine's archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Coverage varies; earliest journal is 1937-present; most are 2001-present.
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Sage Journals Online
More than 485 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine, 1999-present.
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Science.gov
A site that organizes access to agriculture, computer, health, energy and other scientific information from U.S. government agencies. Current.
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Springer Extra Materials
Video and data files and other material supplementing some books published by Springer. Search by ISBN.
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WorldCat
The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries. Material not owned by UMass Amherst can usually be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
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Well-documented full text overviews of current issues, including bibliographies and chronologies. Produced by Congressional Quarterly, 1991-present.
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Education Journals
Supported browsers and needed plug-ins may be found here.
Articles from 550 periodicals in the field of primary, secondary and higher education, 1988-present.
More About Use
ERIC
Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are in Microforms, Floor 3. Public access version.
More About Use
Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to the humanities, social sciences, and non-technical general sciences, 1980-present.
More About Use
Google Scholar
Use within UMass’ IP range to access many UMass online journal subscriptions. In Scholar Preferences, you can choose to export citations to RefWorks bibliographic manager.
More About Use
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Citations to articles which discuss or (occasionally) reprint tests and measures in the social sciences and various health fields, 1985-present
| Also known as: | HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) |
Interactive Functional Anatomy
Three dimensional, rotatable model of human anatomy, with removable layers.
More About Use
National Technical Information Service: NTIS
Citations to government-sponsored technical research from agencies, academia, and industry. For access to full text, ask Gov Docs staff (545-6895) to check Library’s large uncataloged collection of NTIS reports on microfiche.
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PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine's archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Coverage varies; earliest journal is 1937-present; most are 2001-present.
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Sage Journals Online
More than 485 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine, 1999-present.
| Also known as: | Communication Studies: Sage Fulltext Collection |
| Political Science: Sage Fulltext Collection | |
| Urban Studies & Planning: Sage Fulltext Collection |
Science.gov
A site that organizes access to agriculture, computer, health, energy and other scientific information from U.S. government agencies. Current.
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Springer Extra Materials
Video and data files and other material supplementing some books published by Springer. Search by ISBN.
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WorldCat
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