J.W. England Library

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ABI Inform Complete
Index to business and management information, including hundreds of fulltext articles.

Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Collection of Science and Technology and more...

Access World News
Newspapers from around the world, and a selection of American TV and radio news transcripts. 

American Chemical Society Journals
Index to 38 titles published by the American Chemical Society with full text access to 21 of them.

America’s News Magazines
Selected US magazines on current events including business, entertainment and sports.

Biological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for about 6500 biological and biomedical research journals.  The library’s subscription begins with 1997; contact the library about searching for years prior to 1997.  

BioOne
Collection of over 80 fulltext journals published by biology associations and societies.

Business Source Premier
Use the Enhanced Business Interface to search the full text of 2,300 journals, company and industry reports, and more.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Weekly newspaper specializing in higher education. Complete fulltext available only in Library.

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Index to 1500 journals in nursing, medical technology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and other allied heath disciplines (pharmacy is NOT included).

Cochrane Library
Consists of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness.

Contemporary Authors
Biographical information on current writers, both fiction and nonfiction, including journalists, playwrights, and scriptwriters.

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher Index (January 2001 – present). Provides coverage of current issues in the news.

 

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Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
Searchable database of over 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses.

Ebscohost
Search service includes the Professional Development database for teachers.

ERIC
Publicly available education database sponsored by the U.S. government.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
A suite of of databases available through Ovid to use a scientifically valid approach to the practice of clinical medicine.

Facts and Comparisons
Content includes Drug Facts and Comparisons, Drug Interactions Facts, Nonprescription Drugs, Review of Natural Products, and more. Only available on campus. Off-campus access is possible by signing up for the Student Offer below.

Facts and Comparisons Student Offer

FirstSearch
Search for citations to articles in a variety of journals, plus books from WorldCat...

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G-J

German Commission E Monographs


Monographs describing the therapeutic use of herbs and phytomedicines.

Goodman & Gilman's
Pharmacology text that discusses the application of pharmacodynamics to therapeutics.

Google Scholar
Google's search for scholarly articles.

Harrison's
Online textbook of internal medicine.

Health and Psychological Instruments (HAPI)
Provides keyword access to citations for measurement instruments in the health, psychosocial, organizational behavior, and library science fields.

Ingenta
Searchable database of 30,000 academic and professional publications.  The library subscribes to approximately 10 in full text. Check the library’s journal list for full text availability.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts

Journals@Ovid:
We do not recommend searching Journals@Ovid. We link to much more fulltext in other databases.

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King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures
Access through Lexi-Comp and click on I.V. Compatibility.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Lexi-Comp

Methods in Enzymology

Micromedex

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NABPLAW

 

New York Times

 

NewsBank
Includes Access World News and America’s News Magazines.

OT Search

Ovid
Search interface for Medline, PsycInfo, Biological Abstracts and Evidence Based Medicine databases, among others.

Ovid Help Sheet

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Password Page
Some of the Library's online resources require password login. This page supplies the logins.

Pharmacist's Letter
Evidence for pharmacists on new developments in drug therapy.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Searchable full text of Philadelphia's major newspaper.

Pink Sheet
Online version of the weekly publication that covers the prescription pharmaceutical industry.

Project Muse
Searchable full text of academic journals in the arts and humanities.

Professional Development Collection (click on Ebscohost)

Proquest
Search interface to ABI/Inform for business, Research Library for science and social science and Dissertation Abstracts for doctoral dissertations.

PsycArticles
Full text articles from the American Psychological Association available through the Ovid interface.

PsycInfo
American Psychological Association database, which provides abstracts and indexing to psychological journals with links to full text of APA online journals.

PubMed
Premier North American medical database for journal literature.

Pharmaceutical pipeline database. See Password Page.

RefWorks
Citation management service for creating bibliographies. For off-campus access, click here first.

Research Library Complete
A Proquest database for articles in the sciences and social sciences.

Review of Natural Products
Available in Facts and Comparisons. Over 300 monographs describing natural products including clinical information.

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Science Direct
Searchable collection of over 1,100 journals from Elsevier publishers. The library subscribes to 550, which are available full text.

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar accesses the Chemical Abstracts (the standard international index for chemistry and related topics), as well as patents and chemical structures. You must use a computer with SciFinder Scholar software on it, such as the public computers in the library and Wilson 217.  Look for the SciFinder Scholar icon on the desktop. Faculty may contact us about their access.

Springerlink
Over 1500 journals in the sciences and social sciences.

Stat!Ref
AHFS Drug Information, Goodman & Gilman's, Merck Manual, and Basic and Clinical Pharmacology are among the medical and pharmaceutical texts available in Stat!Ref.

Uncover (see Ingenta)

 

Wall Street Journal
Available through Proquest, the business newspaper.

Washington Post

  

Wiley journals
Collection of journals in the sciences and social sciences.

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