Health Science Professions Overview

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a great database for locating JOURNAL articles


This database has very good articles about all sorts of medical issues. Some of the options on the ADVANCED SEARCH page include date range, allied health & health promotion journals, and patient groups among others. Look through them all to see if any will help with your particular search.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine integrates tens of millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and thousands of health-related multimedia assets.

In the medical field, access to the latest health care information is always essential, whether it's for students, researchers, medical professionals, hospital administrators, or even for patients and their families. This database addresses these diverse needs by offering a central access point to a variety of essential content. Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, and includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases.

PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

The articles in this database are what is referred to as "point of care" or "point of need" articles and are considered by teachers to be encyclopedic in nature; therefore, they are considered text articles. These will be useful to describe diseases and conditions.