Murrell Library Research Guides: Nursing and Public Health: Nursing Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Our largest interdisciplinary database containing full-text and bibliographic content from a wide range of academic disciplines.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
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Computer Science Database (ProQuest)
Provides full text of over 1,300 publications dealing with computer and information science, computer security, database design, software development, web commerce, networks, hardware, and software.
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Consumer Health Complete (EBSCOhost)
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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Google Scholar
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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Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)
Reliable and comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, and health administration.
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Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest)
Contains extensive full text articles in accounting, finance, leadership, management, marketing, human resources, and healthcare administration, including journals and dissertations.
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Health Research Premium
Full text articles and indexing for medical, nursing, psychological, and psychiatric information, as well as management, marketing, nutrition, and exercise science. Contains the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to Present.
Database may be searched together or in subsets. The subsets include: Consumer Health Database | Coronovirus Research Database | Health & Medical Collection | Healthcare Administration Database | Psychology Database & PTSD Pubs Combined | Public Health Database
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Medline (ProQuest)
Indexes articles from over 4,800 journals, 1946- present, dealing with medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.
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Natural Science Collection (ProQuest)
Includes partial full text of scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications. Fields covered include agriculture, biology, environmental, atmospheric, and Earth sciences, and aquatic sciences.
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Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest)
This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, and reference books.
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Public Health Database (ProQuest)
This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.
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Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine (EBSCOhost)
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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Sage Health Practice & Services Collection
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
Evidence-based material for point of care nursing and health care decisions at both basic and advanced levels. Search by disease, symptom, lab abnormality, or drug; filter by adult or pediatric topics or inclusion of graphics. 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. Mobile app available.
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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APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other leading sources. Includes access to full-text issues from 1894 to the present.
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APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (partial full text)
Partial full text and abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology, educational psychology, behavioral science, and mental health dating back to the 1800s.
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BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (partial full text)
Indexes open-access academic resources including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections. About 60% of the sources are available in full text. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
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Child Development & Adolescent Studies (EBSCOhost) (Indexing only)
Abstracts and book reviews of material related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21.
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COBRA Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive
Preprints, working papers, some peer reviewed journal articles in biostatistics.
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Consumer Health Complete (EBSCOhost)
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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Consumer Health Database (ProQuest)
Journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
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DiTA: Diagnostic Test Accuracy (Indexing only, some full text links)
This free database indexes primary studies of diagnostic test accuracy and systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies related to physiotherapy practice. Contains some links to full-text. From the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia.
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Psychology Database & PTSDpubs Combined (ProQuest)
Psychology Database has full text on a wide range of topics from leading psychological and psychosomatic publications in clinical and social psychology, genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and education.
PTSDpubs indexes material on PTSD and mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events, attempting to include all relevant publications from 1871 to the present without limitations of origin, discipline, language, or geography. Created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Links to some full text.
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REHABDATA (partial full text)
50 years of research in all areas of disability and rehabilitation, with over 200,000 abstracts and approximately 5,000 full text documents online. For a more targeted search, use the REHABDATA Thesaurus. From the National Rehabilitation Information Center.
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Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine (EBSCOhost)
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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Science Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
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Teen Health and Wellness
Provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information. Includes material on bullying, suicide, vaping, opioid abuse, gender identity, school safety, sexual harassment, and COVID-19.
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BMC (open access journals)
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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CARDS: Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements
A database of federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements. Contains projects funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Institutes and Centers (ICs) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) beginning with fiscal year 1999.
Global Index Medicus
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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Google Scholar
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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Infectious Diseases Hub
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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IRIS
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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Medline Plus
Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
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Medline Plus
Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
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Native Health Database
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 under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012345 with the University of North Texas Health Science Center - Gibson D. Lewis Library, and awarded by the DHHS, NIH, National Library of Medicine.
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Nutrition.gov
Nutrition.gov is a USDA-sponsored website that offers credible information to help you make healthful eating choices. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers. The site is updated on an ongoing basis by a staff of Registered Dietitians at the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The website receives content guidance from a working group that consists of scientific experts in food and nutrition within USDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (partial full text only)
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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PLOS: Public Library of Science
A non-profit open-access science publisher.
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PubMed Central®
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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CredibleMeds
Information and resources for consumers, healthcare professionals and research scientists who register to receive access to credible analyses of the scientific research on medications and their safe use.
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Drug Information Portal
Information for over 55,000 drugs. Names, usage, and structures are displayed, as well as search links to key NLM and government sites. Click here for mobile site.
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Drugs@FDA
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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IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology
An expert-curated resource of ligand-activity-target relationships, the majority of which come from high-quality pharmacological and medicinal chemistry literature. It is intended as a “one-stop shop” portal to pharmacological information and its main aim is to provide a searchable database with quantitative information on drug targets and the prescription medicines and experimental drugs that act on them.
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LactMed
Information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. Peer reviewed.
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LiverTox
Provides up-to-date, unbiased and easily accessed information on the diagnosis, cause, frequency, clinical patterns and management of liver injury attributable to prescription and nonprescription medications and selected herbal and dietary supplements. From the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology
Comprises concise, informative entries on all the most important terms in toxicology. Coverage includes biochemical and environmental toxicology, chemical carcinogenesis, risk assessment and risk management as well as those aspects of analytical chemistry and molecular biology that are of importance in toxicology. The most important toxic chemicals are covered, in most cases with structures and CAS numbers.
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Medicines in Development
This database includes medicines currently in clinical trials or at FDA for review. Searchable by drug name, indication, status, or company.
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Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
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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Pillbox
Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images.
Prescribing medicines in pregnancy database
Evidence-based information about potential risks and hazards of using specific drugs in pregnancy. For health professionals, not the general public. Not presented as medical advice and not intended to be used as a substitute for a health professional's advice.
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RxClass
A web application for exploring and navigating through the class hierarchies to find the RxNorm drug members associated with each class. The database Links drug classes to their RxNorm drug members (ingredients, precise ingredients and multiple ingredients). RxClass allows users to search by class name or identifier to find the RxNorm drug members or to search by RxNorm drug name or identifier to find the classes.
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RxNorm
A standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs.
UpToDate
Evidence-based material for point of care nursing and health care decisions at both basic and advanced levels. Search by disease, symptom, lab abnormality, or drug; filter by adult or pediatric topics or inclusion of graphics. 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. Mobile app available.
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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Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection with AGRICOLA (ProQuest)
This is a subset of our subscription to the Natural Science Collection. The collection contains agricultural science related full-text articles, and figures and tables within articles. Contains all records from AGRICOLA, which indexes agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
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Amino Acid Explorer
Explore characteristics of amino acids by comparing their structural and chemical properties, predicting protein sequence changes caused by mutations, viewing common substitutions, and browsing functions of given residues in conserved domains. From the National Library of Medicine.
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Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM)
Enables first responders and other healthcare providers and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving accidental or terrorist chemical releases.
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Chemical Identification Plus Database (ChemIDplus)
Online dictionary of chemicals, including names, synonyms, and chemical structures.
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Environment Complete (EBSCOhost)
Environmental journals with both full text and references, going back to 1888.
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GreenFile (EBSCOhost)
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text articles on the environment, climate change and global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
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National Agricultural Library Digital Collections
The National Agricultural Library Digital Collections (NALDC) offer access to full-text historical documents in the agricultural and food sciences. Find more digitized materials in the National Agricultural Library's Internet Archive collection.
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PubChem
Contains information about molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. Includes information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, and toxicity data.
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