Allied Health eResources
Access Allied Health topics now in the CampusGuides interface: HSL Subject Guides
To access UC online resources from off campus, use the proxy server, a UC remote access account, or VPN software. For more information, go to the Off Campus Access page. Resources that are freely available on the web are marked (Free).
APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources now available!
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ACP's PIER: The Physicians' Information and Education Resource w/ AHFS Dl Essentials is a point-of-care, web-based decision-support tool that contains 425 modules that provide guidance and information on more than 300 diseases and conditions. PIER modules also contain information on ethical and legal issues, complementary and alternative medicine, and screening, prevention and procedures. (part of the Stat!-Ref collection) ACP Pier User Guide "ACP’s PIER Tops Among 13 Point-of-Care Clinical Products"
AGRICOLA provides citations to literature in botany, forestry, human and animal nutrition, and environment. 1970 to present. (Free)
AGRICOLA provides citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. The publications and resources encompass all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, engineering, and products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
Alt HealthWatch is a FULL-TEXT database of periodicals and other materials focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
APA Style Guide to Electronic References this comprehensive guide offers up-to-date information on formatting electronic references in APA style. The APA Style Guide to Electronic References outlines for students, researchers, and writers the key elements to include in references to electronic sources, with numerous examples.
Biosis Previews encompasses both Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). Indexes and abstracts articles in the Life Sciences.1980 to present.
CHAIN Online a new educational Web site that "offers expert perspectives, advice and guidance on drugs, biological products, and medical devices from AHRQ's Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs)." The Clinician-Consumer Health Advisory Information Network (CHAIN) links clinicians and consumers with information on therapeutics to assist in clinical practice and health care decisionmaking in areas where evidence is undergoing significant and rapid changes. Resources for clinicians include a slide library that can be adapted to educate clinical audiences and used for continuing medical education credit.
CINAHL covers over 900 of the English language journals related to nursing and the allied health disciplines. Updated monthly. 1983 to present.
Citation & Style Guides find citation analysis, citation formatters, and tips on how to cite images, sources, etc. provided by the University of Cincinnati Libraries.
Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Dissertations and Theses (OhioLINK) is a free online database of masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities.
Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) includes full-text to over 800,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. The database also includes full-text to all UC dissertations published in electronic format. In addition, the database includes citations to dissertations from 1861-Present and 350-word abstracts from 1980 forward. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
EBSCOhost MEDLINE with full text is a comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,340 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature.
eFacts (see Facts and Comparisons)
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (OhioLINK) is a free online database of masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ProQuest) includes full-text to over 800,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. The database also includes full-text to all UC dissertations published in electronic format. In addition, the database includes citations to dissertations from 1861-Present and 350-word abstracts from 1980 forward. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
eMedicine (Free access with registration) eMedicine is an authoritative and accessible point of care medical reference available to physicians and other health care professionals on the Internet. The evidence-based content, updated regularly by more than 8,000 attributed physician or health care provider authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 38 clinical areas. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on over 6,500 diseases and medical topics, and is richly illustrated with some 28,000 multimedia files.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences includes over 12 million words, 4,000 articles, 7,500 illustrations, 180,000 index entries and 26,000 links. It is constantly updated online.
Entrez contains the complete protein & nucleotide sequence data from GenBank, the EMBL Data Library, the PIR International Protein Sequence Database, SWISS-PROT, Protein Data Bank, & the PRF & DDBJ files. (Free)
ERIC indexes education-related literature, beginning in 1966. The ERIC database is the world’s largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers.
Facts and Comparisons includes A to Z Drug Facts, Drug Facts and Comparisons, Drug Interaction Facts, drug identification tool, herbal interaction facts, MedFacts Patient Information, Nonprescription Drug Therapy, Review of Natural Products, black box warnings, pregnancy and lactation warnings, investigational drugs, manufacturer index, orphan drugs, and normal lab values.
A to Z Drug Facts
Drug Facts and Comparisons®
Drug Interaction Facts
Herbal Interaction Facts
Nonprescription Drug Therapy
Off-Label Drug Facts
Review of Natural Products
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) contains descriptions of information on instruments used in assesssing the health and behavior of infants, children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. 1985 to present.
Health and Wellness Resource Center is no longer available as the subscription was discontinued.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals. Updated on a daily basis.
IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts) Online provides information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical and health-related journals published worldwide from 1970 to the present. To get to full text articles, look for the Article Linker icon.
ISI Web of Knowledge contains citations to more than 5,300 of the leading science and technical publications from all over the world. 1980 to present.
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. JCR can show you: most frequently cited journals in a field, highest impact journals in a field, and largest journals in a field. Another option is to take a look at SCImago Journal & Country Rank , an open access database that generates citation statistics and also calculates impact factors using data from Scopus®, a database created by Elsevier and to which UC subscribes. See the database review in Nature.
Medline/PubMed (National Library of Medicine) (Free) This link to PubMed provides access to online journal articles to which Health Sciences Library subscribes. Look for the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Libraries or the UC Article Linker button. For more information, please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print The Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
National Journal is a comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community. See the Health Care section for policy news. (Free)
Natural and Alternative Treatments consists of articles on Herbs and Supplements, Conditions, Drug Interaction, Alternative Therapies and Homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added as they appear. This evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing reliable information without exaggeration or misrepresentation.
Natural Standard Database is a database of complementary and alternative therapy monographs. Using a comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales, information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a multidisciplinary Editorial Board.
NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students.
NTIS is a source for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, and technical information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Subjects covered includes Environmental Sciences, Health Care, and Medicine. 1964 to present
Nutrition - CRCnetBASE searchable ebook collection that includes topics on nutrition in health and disease, nutrition sciences, and sports nutrition.
Nutrition in Health and Disease - CRCnetBASE searchable ebook collection
Nutrition Sciences - CRCnetBASE searchable ebook collection
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source has been discontinued. A majority of the full text journals in this package are available through other sources at UC. If you know the name of the journal you want, check eJournals or the Online Catalog.
PsycBOOKS from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 16,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2005. It also includes 100 out-of-print books and a total of more than 400 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology. 1965 - present.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database with more than 510 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO covers over 1300 professional and academic journals, dissertations and book chapters on psychology and related disciplines. It is updated quarterly. 1967 to present.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine) (Free) This link to PubMed provides access to online journal articles to which Health Sciences Library subscribes. Look for the UC Article Linker button. For more information, please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu
Registry of Nursing Research is a free database of nursing research abstracts (with some full text). Check the catalog or eJournals to see if UC has the full text articles for the abstracts you find. The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International sponsors this important online complement to traditional nursing databases. Features include: free registration; abstracts from dozens of nursing conferences; investigator-entered information on cutting edge research and more. (Free)
Science Citation Index see ISI Web of Knowledge
Scopus
is an abstract database for science and social science scholarly literature that
covers 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers,
providing access to over 25 million abstracts. (Citations: 1966 to present)
Please note: We are working on linking to all of Health Sciences Library's online journal subscriptions. Currently there are links to many, but not all. Click on "View at Publisher" to check access. If not available in Scopus, please go to the eJournals page or UCLID
to access the full text articles to which Health Sciences Library subscribes.
Sports Nutrition - CRCnetBASE searchable ebook collection
SPORTDiscus with Full Text covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, drugs, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more. 1800 to present.
Statistical UNIVerse is an index to over 100,000 statistical publications. Search the most popular U.S. government reference book, Statistical Abstract, and jump to other Web sites with useful information about statistics.
Tests in Print is now combined with Mental Measurement Yearboooks - see Mental Measurements Yearbooks with Tests in Print
Web of Knowledge see ISI Web of Knowledge
WinkingSkull.com (Free)
An interactive anatomy study guide. Register for a free account.