Finding Articles - Health and Wellness Databases - WR121 - Composition I : Health and Medicine Focus - LibraryGuides at Chemeketa Community College

When Should I Use a Database?

Since Primo Library Search includes articles in its results, you may be wondering why you would bother to search in a journal article database. There are several reasons for using an individual database:

Noise - Say you're looking for information on zombies (computers that distribute spam) and you find articles on the walking dead, philosophy, anthropology, and other subjects; using a database that specializes in computer literature lets you focus on your topic
Bells and Whistles - Some databases have specialized subject headings and powerful search features; most let you search within the full text of articles
Thoroughness - not all database articles are included in Primo Library Search, for technical reasons; some articles from Education Resource Complete and CINAHL (Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), many newspapers (including The Oregonian), most images, and the databases on the Databases on the Web guide are not included in the Library Search

Health and Wellness Databases

CINAHL [EBSCOhost] (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) This link opens in a new window
Indexing for over 1,200 nursing and allied health periodicals including fire science, emergency medicine, and biomedicine.
How to Use
Gale Health and Wellness This link opens in a new window
Provides articles from approximately 1,000 journals, magazines, and newsletters, half peer-reviewed and 80% in full text.
Has content from Gale health reference books, CareNotes System, Clinical Reference Systems, Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary , and several drug information sources. Includes alternative health resources. Also includes health videos. Over 2,000 pamphlets.

Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Covers approximately one thousand journals (4.2 million articles) and provides full text of many.

Medline via Pubmed This link opens in a new window
The largest database of medicine- and dentistry- related abstracts, produced by the National Library of Medicine.
How to Use Medline
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Includes articles in academic journals, newspapers, and general interest magazines. Click on Databases (4) to select specific databases or subject areas to search within.
How to use ProQuest
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal articles from the health, life, social, and behavioral sciences.
Access limited to journals in the Health & Life Sciences and the Social & Behavioral Sciences collections.