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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
AccessMedicine
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions. AccessMedicine goes where you need it most! Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
Alt-HealthWatch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers an immediate resource of full-text articles, from more than 170 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. 1990- present.
ArticleFirst
Index to articles from over 12,000 journals.

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Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews
Index and abstracts to international journal articles in biological and medical research. BIOSIS Previews also covers books and meetings. Includes or has links to full-text.

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
ComDisDome
Resources included in ComDisDome are referred and selected based on their relevance to the field of Speech Pathology and Audiology and its research. Each item is linked to related items, providing your users with the most richly networked and easily navigable representation of their professions' content and community available today. In the Dome you will also find the "Grants" section that will allow you to get connected to any sources of grant funding. You also have the ability to see what grants have been awarded and in what areas of research allowing you to connect with the researchers receiving the grants. The Dome also enables users to instantly save and annotate their findings in an online personal folder system for later use and easy export to popular reference management software. Additionally, Dome users will receive web space on which they can easily post saved folders to share findings with their colleagues and students.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Full text of the Encyclopędia Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Britannica School Edition
Access to the Encyclopędia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.

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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Includes or has links to full text.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes or has links to full text.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Index to journal articles, books, proceedings, and other literature in the history of science, technology and medicine, and allied historical fields.

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Infotrac Full-Text Articles (1,000 Journals)
Index to citations in 1,000 journals with full-text access to almost 900 journals. Covers many subject areas at the undergraduate level. Includes or has links to full text.

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LexisNexis Academic
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Includes or has links to full text.

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MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
MEDLINE 1950 - present
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE 1950-1965 ("OLDMEDLINE")
Index to articles from international biomedical journals, 1953-1965. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE 2002 - present
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE with Full Text
MEDLINE with Full Text includes all of the content available in MEDLINE as well as cover-to-cover full text for 1,014 journals indexed as cover-to-cover in MEDLINE, including hundreds of journals not available as full text in any other EBSCO database.

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NewsBank Newspapers
Online full-text newspapers, including 17 Ohio newspapers. Includes or has links to full text.

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ProQuest Nursing Journals
This database offers complete text and images from such journals as Nursing, Nursing Management, Nursing Economics, Nursing Forum, RN, Journal of Nursing Education, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Researcher, and Nursing Diagnosis.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Includes or has links to full text.
PsycINFO 1967-
Index and abstracts of articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. Includes or has links to full text.
PsycINFO Historical 1872-1966
Index and abstracts of historical psychological journals, 1872-1966.
PubMed
Government website of medical literature citations andlinks to full-text journals of participating publishers.Drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE databases. 1966- present.

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RefWorks
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. To sign up for a RefWorks account, point your browser to https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp and view the quick start guide.

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Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science)
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the sciences. Includes or has links to full text.