Electronic Resources
Medicine and Health Sciences

Resource Name	Source	Description
AIDS/Cancer Research	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides abstracts of scientific literature. Topics include virology, immunology and oncology. Current year plus five years backfile. Updated monthly.
Biomedical Sciences full-text journals	IDEAL (Academic Press) Journals	Includes full-text of journal articles. The Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded without charge, is required to view and display journal articles.
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature	FirstSearch	Provides indexing to nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals. From 1982 - present. CINAHL is available from both FirstSearch and SilverPlatter. More advanced searching is available from SilverPlatter.
	SilverPlatter
Health Reference Center	InfoTrac SearchBank	Provides indexing for health publications. Topics include fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, and prescription drugs. Selected full-text articles. 1994 - present. Updated weekly. The Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded without charge, may be used to view and display journal articles.
MEDLINE	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides indexing for medical, dental, and nursing publications. Topics include clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, and veterinary medicine. 1993 - present.
MEDLINE (free)	National Library of Medicine	NLM now permits access free of charge on the World Wide Web to its MEDLINE database of more than 8.8 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals. Two Web-based products provide this free access: PubMed: contains 8.6 million MEDLINE records dating back to 1966 Internet Grateful Med (IGM), in addition to MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, PREMEDLINE, and AIDSLINE, offers free access to AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, DIRLINE, HISTLINE, HSRPROJ, OLDMEDLINE, and SDILINE.
The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition		Based on the well-known The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, commonly referred to as The Merck Manual, this Web site attempts to provide all of the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, while transforming the professional language of the print version into commonly used English. The Web version is not as extensive as the print version; however, the entire sections on the heart, the eye, infections, and gynecology and obstetrics are included.
Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing	Electronic Collections Online	The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing publishes critical reviews of research literature to guide nursing practice and research. The reviews include a statement of the practice problem, a summary of the research, annotated critical references, practice implications, research needed, search strategies, and references linked to MEDLINE and CINAHL.
PsycFirst	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for recent publications in psychology and related fields. Current year plus three years backfile. Updated monthly.
PsycLIT	McConnell LAN	Provides indexing for publications in Psychology and related disciplines. 1887 - present. Updated quarterly.
TOXLINE	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Information is drawn from fourteen secondary sources including Toxicity Bibliography, Hazardous Materials Technical Center, Environmental Mutagen Information Center File, and Pesticides Abstracts. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library	Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing	Provides access to nursing databases. Includes the Registry of Nursing Research, research conference listings, research grants, information resources, and information on Sigma Theta Tau.

VIVA (Virginia colleges and universities) only

Radford University only