Article Databases / Indexes
Health & Medicine Article Databases / Indexes
- Alt-HealthWatch (online)
Peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on contemporary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.- CINAHL with Full Text (online)
The CINAHL database provides access to nursing and allied health literature and information from 1982 to the present. Over one thousand journals are indexed in the CINAHL database. Nursing and allied health journals are indexed cover-to-cover (regular journals), whereas only articles that are germaine to the database are selected from the other journal titles (selective journals).- Health and Wellness Resource Center (online)
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.- Health Source: Consumer Edition (online)
The database features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (online)
The database 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.- MEDLINE with Full Text (online)
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. This database contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.- PubMed (online)
PubMed provides additional search features such as the ability to link to “Related Articles”, and now provides a link to search the OhioLINK catalog for an electronic copy of an article. IMPORTANT: Please remember, if you do not find an electronic version of your article, search the UCLID catalog or contact a librarian. The OLinks search does not reflect electronic journals and databases to which UC individually subscribes.- Scopus (online)
Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005.- Additional Databases in Health & Medicine
General Article Databases / Indexes
Books
Searching for Books
Books, as all library materials, can be found through the Library's Catalog (UCLID) using Title, Author, Subject, Keyword, or other numeric index searches.
Using the Library's Catalog, students can check on an item's location, availability, and bibliographic information. The Library's Catalog is University wide; however, all searches can be limited to only materials owned by the RWC Library.
RWC students can borrow all available materials from any UC libraries, as well as all available materials through the OhioLINK Catalog. The OhioLINK Catalog is a statewide library catalog consisting of library materials from colleges, universities, and public libraries throughout Ohio. To request materials from libraries other than the RWC Library, use the convenient online requests option to request available materials.
Common Subject Headings
- radiography
- radiologic technology
- radiologic technologists
- diagnostic imaging
- emergency medical services
- emergency medical technicians
New Allied Health Sciences Titles at RWC with Reviews
Certification & Licensure
- America Registry of Radiologic Technologists (online)
- Ohio Department of Health - Radiologic Licensure (online)
Citation & Style Guides
- American Medical Association manual of style : a guide for authors and editors - Ref R119 .A533 1998 (print)
- Citation, Copyright and Plagiarism Resources (online)
- Copyright Basics - guide created by RWC Library (online)
- How to Cite Sources in a Paper OhioLINK guide (online)
Dictionaries & Thesauri
- Credo Reference (online)
A collection of medical dictionaries- Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professionals (online)
Encyclopedias
- AccessScience (online)
Full access to articles and dictionary terms from the 8th edition of the McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology, with new and revised content from the encyclopedia's editors and contributors, including recent research developments, biographies of scientists, late-breaking science and technology news, new references, links to related web sites, learning resources and study guides, added illustrations, and much more.
Handbooks
- Harrison's Online
Consists of the latest edition of the basic text of Harrison's principles of internal medicine, sections on clinical trials, updates (and their related references, including abstracts) related to the text and an online pretests section. Also included is an online forum where interested participants can post messages, read, or join any discussion threads.
Journals
Journals, as all library periodicals, can be found through the Library's Catalog (UCLID) using Title, Subject, Keyword , or other numeric index searches. Using the Library's Catalog, students can check on a journal's location, availability, and holdings.
Full-Text Journals
All full-text journals can be found through the Library's Full Text Journal List using Title or ISSN searches, or browsed by subject.
Research Guides
- Health Care Careers (online)
- How to Evaluate the Information You Find (online)
Societies & Associations
- American College of Radiology [ACR] (online)
- Radiological Society of North America [RSNA] (online)
- Society for Computer Applications in Radiology [SCAR] (online)
Web Sites
This page was last modified on 12/17/2007 by Heather Maloney.