Nursing and Public Health: Nursing Databases

Our largest interdisciplinary database containing full-text and bibliographic content from a wide range of academic disciplines.
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Contains open-access peer-reviewed journals in fields as diverse as criminal justice, philosophy, computer science, education, the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering disciplines, psychology, and the environment.
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Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
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Resources for consumer-oriented health content including mainstream, complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Also includes the Clinical Reference System, a medical dictionary, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
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A searchable catalog of FDA approved drug products both prescription and over the counter. Includes information such as therapeutic equivalents and links to documents relating to approval.
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Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. Includes partial full text. From the World Health Organization.
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The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.
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Provides up-to-date, essential research and information on all aspects of microbiology, virology, mycology and parasitology – from bench to bedside. Requires free registration.
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Produced by the World Health Horganization, IRIS (Institutional Repository for Information Sharing) is a digital library of all WHO publications since 1948. It is freely accessible in the six official WHO languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.)
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Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
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Indexes articles from over 4,800 journals, 1965 - present, dealing with medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. For articles from 1947-1965, see OldMedline.
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Contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. Funded by the University of North Texas Health Science Center - Gibson D. Lewis Library, the DHHS, NIH, and the National Library of Medicine.
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The Food & Drug Administration's Electronic Orange Book with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations enables searching of the approved drug list by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder or applicant number.
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Partial full text. Over 45,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. PEDro trials are independently assessed with quality ratings to guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.
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A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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Full-text of over 190 sports and rehabilitation journals aimed at hospital rehabilitation and sports clinicians. Contains full-text coverage since 1963.
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The Sage Health Practice and Services Collection contains 59 peer-reviewed e-Journals. Use the advanced search form and select the button for "Only content to which I have full access." Otherwise you will be shown articles that are not available for free.
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UpToDate contains evidence-based material for making nursing and health care decisions at the point of care. Search by disease, symptom, lab abnormality, or drug, and filter by adult or pediatric topics or inclusion of graphics. Each topic contains both basic and advanced levels. Practice guidelines contain graded recommendations using a number (the strength of the recommendation) and letter (the quality of the supporting evidence). Over 185 medical calculators, drug information, and food and drug interactions. Includes patient education briefs and Continuing Medical Education (CME). Drug information includes “Boxed Warnings,” dosing (including for special populations), generic forms, administration, labeled indications, label and off-label use, adverse reactions, warning and precautions, drug and food interactions, and reproductive and pregnancy considerations. All information cites references.

To use UpToDate, sign in with your MOVAL username and password. After being logged in, you will be prompted to create an individual account. Online video tutorials are available.
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