A.C. Buehler Library: CSD Interdisciplinary Health Sciences: Searching Resources

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CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. Provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.
MEDLINE Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index, providing medical professionals and researchers unparalleled access to full-text journals, including numerous top biomedical publications.
Ovid Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 70 top journals used by nurses and health professionals around the world. Includes titles such as AJN, JONA, Advances in Nursing Science, and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A free, comprehensive, medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This link includes a button that will search Elmhurst University resources.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains selective full-text access to over 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Interdisciplinary & social sciences databases:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts from over 12,500 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from 8,500 titles, including more than 7,300 that are peer-reviewed. Almost every topic of study is covered. The database is updated daily, and includes searchable cited references from more than 1,400 journals.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. There are 2,500 titles indexed, and linked full text is available.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
A search engine to broadly search for scholarly literature from one platform across many disciplines and sources.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2.3 million records as well as abstracts for over 2,500 journals, as well as conference papers, books, and monographs. Includes almost 900 full text journals, hundreds of books, thousands of conference papers, and 25,000 author profiles. Topics covered include urban studies, anthropology, criminology and criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, marriage and the family, social psychology, and sociological theory.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Using Elmhurst University Research Resources

Check out this brief tutorial on using Elmhurst University library resources for your research.

Searching CINAHL for CSD Graduate Students

Find Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses

About systematic reviews (from the Cochrane website): "A systematic review identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determines whether or not this intervention works. To do this authors locate, appraise and synthesize evidence from as many relevant scientific studies as possible. They summarize conclusions about effectiveness, and provide a unique collation of the known evidence on a given topic, so that others can easily review the primary studies for any intervention."

ASHA - N-CEP Evidence-Based Systematic Reviews
Cochrane Library
Includes freely available summaries of reviews of evidence on a variety of medical topics.
Campbell Collaboration Library of Systematic Reviews
Campbell Systematic Reviews is an open access journal prepared under the editorial control of the Campbell Collaboration. The journal publishes systematic reviews, evidence and gap maps, and methods research papers.

Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice Database This link opens in a new window
Contains a wide range of summarized and appraised evidence, to inform practice. This comprehensive range of resources includes over 3,000 records across seven publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices, Evidence Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information Sheets, Systematic Review Protocols, and Technical Reports.

speechBITE: Speech Pathology for Best Interventions and Treatment Efficacy
speechBITE is a database of intervention studies across the scope of speech pathology practice.
What Works Clearinghouse
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) reviews the existing research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education.

But how do I get the full text articles?

If you have a DOI, scroll down on the Citation Linker page and enter it instead of all of the other citation information.

Citation Linker - Bluejay Search
Elmhurst University's Citation Linker - Bluejay Search allows you to input a citation, DOI or PMID and retrieve the item if it is available in full text.
Finding Full Text from References AND MyEBSCOhost
Short video tutorial on how to hunt down articles from a reference list, and information about setting up a MyEBSCOhost account to help organize article citations.

ASHA Resources

ASHA Journals available in library databases: