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SU Users Alt-HealthWatch   (EBSCO)   some full text
articles from journals, reports, & proceedings ; complementary, holistic, and integrated healthcare
Public BioMed Central
free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research
Public CANCERLIT   (National Cancer Institute)
indexes biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and theses ; mid-1960's-present
SU Users Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption Database   (NISC)
resources concerning the maltreatment, safety, and well-being of children ; from 1965-present
SU Users CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health]   (EBSCO)   some full text
full text for more than 560 journals; more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature
Available to everyone Entrez (GenBank)   (National Center for Biotechnology Information)  some full text
searches several linked medical databases
SU Users Health Source : Consumer Edition   (EBSCO)   some full text
provides access to more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines; covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc
SU Users Health Source : Nursing/Academic Edition   (EBSCO)   some full text
provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines; includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs
Public PUBMED   (National Library of Medicine)
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine ; 1966-present
Public PubMed Central   (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
SU Users Sage Publications   (Sage)   some full text
485 + journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
SU Users Science Direct College Edition   (Elsevier)   some full text
access to 1,000 full text journals from 2003-present ; subject coverage of physical, life and health sciences ; engineering ; social sciences and the humanities
SU Users Wiley Interscience  some full text
over 300 multi-disciplinary journals ; some full text
 
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Available to everyone AGRICOLA   (National Agricultural Library)  
agriculture and allied disciplines, including food, nutrition, and environmental science; materials from 15th century to present
SU Users ERIC   (EBSCO)   some full text
education journals and documents [library has documents from 1972 (ED66621)-2003 (ED483004) located in the Annex]
Public ERIC   (Dept. of Education)
citations, abstracts, and full-text from education journals and documents
SU Users Full-text Journal Finder    
Find e-journals by title, browse e-journals by title, or browse e-journals by subject
Available on and off-campus with valid Samford UserID Multi-Disciplinary Resources 
multi-disciplinary databases covering all academic subjects
SU Users PsycINFO   (EBSCO)
academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines; 1887-present
SU Users Sage Publications   (Sage)   some full text
485 + journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
 
Access   Selected Reference Sources
Available to everyone Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Ref   R 121 .D73 2000
Available to everyone Encyclopedia of Human Biology  
Ref   QP 11 .E53 1997
SU Users Facts and Comparisons   (Wolters Kluwer Health)   some full text
current and unbiased drug information
Available on and off-campus with valid Samford UserID Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (2005)
R733eb (electronic book)
Available on and off-campus with valid Samford UserID Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer (2006)
RC262eb (electronic book)
Available on and off-campus with valid Samford UserID Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (2005)
RB155.5eb (electronic book)
Available on and off-campus with valid Samford UserID Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2006)
RC41 G35 2006eb (electronic book)
Available on and off-campus with valid Samford UserID Medicine  (OUP)
search Oxford reference resources in Medicine
SU Users Mental Measurements Yearbook   (Ovid)   some full text
descriptive information and critical reviews of commercially-available standardized tests in behavioral and social sciences ; 1985 - present ; material begins with the 9th edition of the yearbook ; earlier editions of the yearbook are in the Reference Dept. at BF176 .M46x
Available to everyone Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
Ref   R 121 .M89 1998
Available to everyone Physicians' Desk Reference
Ref   RS 75 .P5
Available to everyone USP DI Advice for the Patient   (MEDLINEplus Health Information) some full text
prescription and over-the-counter medication information for patients
 
Access   Selected Web Sites
Available to everyone Alabama Center for Health Statistics (Alabama Dept. of Public Health)
Available to everyone BioMed Central
Available to everyone DIRLINE - Directory of Health Organizations Online
Available to everyone Free Medical Journals
Available to everyone Global Drug Information Service   (McWhorter School of Pharmacy)
Available to everyone Guide to Herbal Medicine from MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine)
Available to everyone Health InfoNet of Alabama
a free consumer health information service of the Alabama public and medical libraries
Available to everyone Healthfinder   (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Available to everyone HEALTHmap
unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health
Available to everyone MediLexicon
 The world's largest online database of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations.
Available to everyone MEDLINEplus Health Information (National Library of Medicine)
Available to everyone The Merck Manuals
includes the Merck Manual Second Home Edition, the Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the Manual of Health and Aging, the Manual of Geriatrics, and limited access to the Merck Index
Available to everyone National Center for Health Statistics
Available to everyone Office on Women's Health Quick Health Data Online
online access to county level health status data; previously known as the National Women's Health Indicators Database
Available to everyone OSHA Statistics
occupational injury and illness incidence rates
Available to everyone PLoS Medicine
Available to everyone science.gov
Public Scirus
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages