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- CINAHL
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index and abstracts to the literature of nursing and allied health with some full text.
- CINAHL provides access to abstracts and indexing, as well as some full text, for more than 1,835 nursing and allied health journals, publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing, nursing dissertations, and selected other biomedical journals. Limited coverage of psychology and management literature is also included. Print index covers 1977- .
- See also: zbpc:see also Pre-CINAHL
- Coverage Dates: 1982 to the present
- Updated: Weekly
- Title List
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbcn
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- Pre-CINAHL: Nursing and Allied Health
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Pre-CINAHL provides current awareness of new journal articles in nursing.
- A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpc
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- ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from journals in nursing and allied health.
- ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source includes more than 280 full-text journals in nursing and allied health
- Coverage Dates: 1988 to the present (dates of coverage vary with the publication).
- Updated: Weekly
- Database Provider: proquest
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zunu
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Related / Narrower Databases
- Ageline (Ovid)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index to social gerontology journals.
- Ageline provides bibliographic citations of social gerontology journals. These include periodicals that focus on aging in psychological, health-related, and social and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is covered as well as consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
- Coverage Dates: 1978-
- Updated: 3 times a year
- Database Provider: Ovid
- 4 concurrent users
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xage-uga1
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- Books @ OVID (Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Full-text e-books in the field of nursing and medicine.
- Thirty-three full-text electronic books have been selected from the Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences list and are made available through the Books @ Ovid interface.
Electronic books in all areas of health sciences have been selected including, books on topics ranging from nursing care to psychiatry. Here is a list of the books currently available:
- ACP Medicine
- AWHONN Perinatal Nursing
- Common Symptoms Guide, The: Guide to the Evaluation of Common Adult and Pediatric Symptoms
- Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics
- Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Psychiatry
- Current Geriatric Diagnosis & Treatment
- Drug Facts & Comparisons Pocket Version
- Field Guide to Urgent & Ambulatory Care
- Procedures Harrison's Manual of Medicine
- Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control
- Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests
- Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
- Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
- Manual of Clinical Problems in Pediatrics
- Manual of Family Practice
- Manual of Intensive Care Medicine
- Manual of Psychiatric Therapeutics
- Nurses' Guide to Clinical Procedures
- Nurses Legal Handbook
- Nursing Care Plans & Documentation: Nursing
- Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice
- Nursing Herbal Medicine Handbook
- Nursing Procedures
- Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
- Plumer's Principles & Practice of Intravenous Therapy
- Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
- Primary Care
- Reichel's Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging
- Studying a Study & Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence
- Trauma Manual
- Washington Manual(TM) of Medical Therapeutics
- What to Order When: Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Imaging
- Database Provider: OVID
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zjov
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- Thirty-three full-text electronic books have been selected from the Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences list and are made available through the Books @ Ovid interface.
- Burger's Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Medicinal chemistry and drug discovery design and development.
- Burger's provides access to a broad coverage of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery for new or experienced medicinal chemists, biologists, pharmacologists and molecular biologists, including a current and global perspective of drug design, and drug development.
- Coverage Dates: current
- Updated: ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Wiley InterScience
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=burg-uga1
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- Clinical Pharmacology Complete Edition
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Clinical & patient level drug and herbal supplement information.
- Clinical Pharmacology is a drug information database that provides peer reviewed, clinically-relevant information on drugs available in the United States, including off-label uses and dosages, herbal supplements, nutritional products, and new and investigational drugs. The database includes drug information monographs, drug photos, and patient education. The drug monographs include indications, interactions, adverse reactions, contraindications, and chemical structures.
- Coverage Dates: Current
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Gold Standard Multimedia
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=clii-uga1
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- Consumer Health Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Full-text articles, encyclopedias, reports, videos, and other content on consumer-oriented health topics.
- Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, and more.
Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Title List
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbch
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- Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, and more.
- Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Reference articles on physical, social, and policy aspects of food and nutrition.
- The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition presents the physiological aspects of nutrient and energy requirements by different population groups; measurement of dietary intake and nutritional status; nutrient composition of the main food groups; associations between diet, lifestyle and disease; clinical applications of nutrition to improve health; topical issues relating to the food processing industry; influences on food choice and eating behavior; nutritional guidelines and public health policies in both developed and developing countries; international aspects of food labeling, and a range of related topics in between these key subject areas. This edition updates the Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition.
A list of 'Further Reading' at the end of each entry, includes review articles and key papers. A cross-referencing 'Related Topics' section directs the reader to other entries within the encyclopedia which contain additional information.
- Coverage Dates: 1999
- Updated: Annual
- Database Provider: elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=enca-uga1
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- The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition presents the physiological aspects of nutrient and energy requirements by different population groups; measurement of dietary intake and nutritional status; nutrient composition of the main food groups; associations between diet, lifestyle and disease; clinical applications of nutrition to improve health; topical issues relating to the food processing industry; influences on food choice and eating behavior; nutritional guidelines and public health policies in both developed and developing countries; international aspects of food labeling, and a range of related topics in between these key subject areas. This edition updates the Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition.
- Encyclopedia of Immunology
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Reference articles on immunology, microbiology, virology, and parasitology.
- The Encyclopedia of Immunology, 2nd edition, presents topics on immunology of interest not only to experimental and clinical immunologists, but to scientists from many disciplines, including microbiologists, veterinary surgeons, protein chemists, physiologists, hematologists, and so forth.
A list of 'Further Reading' at the end of each entry, includes review articles and key papers. A cross-referencing 'Related Topics' section directs the reader to other entries within the encyclopedia which contain additional information.
- Coverage Dates: 1998, 2d edition
- Updated: Annual
- Database Provider: elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xapi-uga1
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- The Encyclopedia of Immunology, 2nd edition, presents topics on immunology of interest not only to experimental and clinical immunologists, but to scientists from many disciplines, including microbiologists, veterinary surgeons, protein chemists, physiologists, hematologists, and so forth.
- Encyclopedia of Virology
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Information on animal, insect, plant, and bacterial viruses.
- The Encyclopedia of Virology presents information on animal, insect, plant, and bacterial viruses. Although it is not possible to cover all members of taxonomic families or genera, important examples of each are discussed by experts in those fields. Articles that address general subjects related to specific viruses or viral diseases help to synthesize the relevant biomedical and economic issues. The Encyclopedia will be of interest to researchers, clinical virologists, and students, as well as to scientists and educators in related fields.
A list of 'Further Reading' at the end of each entry, includes review articles and key papers. A cross-referencing 'Related Topics' section directs the reader to other entries within the encyclopedia which contain additional information.
- Coverage Dates: 1999
- Updated: Annual
- Database Provider: elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=encf-uga1
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- The Encyclopedia of Virology presents information on animal, insect, plant, and bacterial viruses. Although it is not possible to cover all members of taxonomic families or genera, important examples of each are discussed by experts in those fields. Articles that address general subjects related to specific viruses or viral diseases help to synthesize the relevant biomedical and economic issues. The Encyclopedia will be of interest to researchers, clinical virologists, and students, as well as to scientists and educators in related fields.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (Ovid)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Information on measurement instruments in the psychosocial sciences.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. The database contains several categories of content:
- Citations to actual test documents that copyright holders authorize BMDS to make available
- Bibliographic citations to journal articles which contain information about specific test instruments
- A catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments
In addition to medical measurement instruments, HaPI presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
- Coverage Dates: 1985-
- Updated: quarterly
- Database Provider: ovid
- One user allowed at a time.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hean-uga1
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- Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. The database contains several categories of content:
- Health and Safety Sciences Abstracts
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles and other materials on industrial and occupational safety.
- This database indexes journal articles, government reports, conference proceedings, and books, this database covers industrial and occupational safety, transportation safety, aviation and aerospace safety, environmental and ecological safety, and medical safety.
- See also: zchs:Backup Site (Ohio)
- Coverage Dates: 1981 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Title List
- Database Provider: cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zchs
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- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.On the nature and use of language.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts focuses on the nature and structure of human speech, research in speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language, spelling, phonetics and the pathology of speech, and hearing. This database provides bibliographic citations. Over 2600 journals from 50 nations are reviewed for inclusion, as well as selected books, book chapters, and dissertations.
- Coverage Dates: 1973-
- Updated: Quarterly
- Title List
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: ProQuest-CSA
- 4 concurrent users
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xllb-uga1
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- Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Clinical summaries of drugs and medicines worldwide.
- Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is an online reference resource that includes detailed information on pharmaceutical drugs. It covers adverse effects/treatments, preparation, usage/administration, pharmacokinetics, and interaction data most drugs as well as a sources list for follow-up research.
- Coverage Dates: current
- Database Provider: ovid
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=marl-uga1
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- The Merck Manual
Online Access: On/Off CampusStandard medical handbooks of reliable, easy-to-use medical information.
- The Merck Manuals have been standard medical reference sources for over 100 years providing detailed information on virtually all disorders, complete with discussion of symptoms and current therapy.
The publisher provides free access to three Merck Manuals: The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Centennial Edition--published 1999; The Home Edition providing medical information in everyday language; and The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, published 2000.
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: merck_com
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=imer
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- The Merck Manuals have been standard medical reference sources for over 100 years providing detailed information on virtually all disorders, complete with discussion of symptoms and current therapy.
- Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine
Provides information for patients and health care professionals on complementary and alternative therapies.
- Natural Standard offers multiple databases for searching research on alternative and holistic health care, including sections devoted to foods, herbs and supplements; health and wellness; and medical conditions. This comprehensive database provides evidence-based and peer-reviewed information on all aspects of alternative health care.
- Coverage Dates: 2008 onwards
- Updated: Daily
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=nara-uga1
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- Physical Education Index
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index of scholarly articles and research pertaining to physical education topics.
- Physical Education Index provides citations and abstracts on a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, health education, physical therapy, and sport sociology/psychology.
Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.
- Coverage Dates: 1970 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Title List
- Database Provider: cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zcph
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- Physical Education Index provides citations and abstracts on a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, health education, physical therapy, and sport sociology/psychology.
- PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
Online Access: On/Off Campus
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Worldwide literature on mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events.
- Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. PILOTS includes: * post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) * the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion * the preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events * issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations. Use the browser's back button to return to GALILEO. Access: Free Database provider: ProQuest-CSA
- Coverage Dates: 1871-
- Updated: Monthly
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pils-uga1
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- PsycINFO
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.The major index for articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. The American Psychological Association offers YouTube videos on how to use PsycINFO.
- PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Some articles are available in full text. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals from nearly 50 countries. The historic portion of the database comes from from three sources: Psychological Abstracts (1927-1966), Psychological Bulletin (1921-1926), and all journals published by the American Psychological Association plus the American Journal of Psychology from the first issue of volume 1, number 1 in November 1887.
Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 60,000 references are added annually.
- PsycINFO online help:
PsycINFO Search Help/Training Center includes Search Tips and How-To's and a search guide specific to the EBSCOhost interface.
The APA also offers YouTube videos on how to use PsycINFO.
Produced and copyrighted (c) by the American Psychological Association.
- Coverage Dates: 1887 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpy
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- PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Some articles are available in full text. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals from nearly 50 countries. The historic portion of the database comes from from three sources: Psychological Abstracts (1927-1966), Psychological Bulletin (1921-1926), and all journals published by the American Psychological Association plus the American Journal of Psychology from the first issue of volume 1, number 1 in November 1887.
- Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.On issues related to social work theory and practice.
- Social Work Abstracts is a bibliographic citation database contains references on homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization and related topics.
- Coverage Dates: 1965-
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbsa
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- Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.A standard authority on medical language.
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary is a standard medical authority, giving explanations of medical terms, and related terms.
- Coverage Dates: 2006
- Updated: 28th Edition
- Database Provider: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins through Stat!Ref
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xste-uga1
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Broader Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a 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 is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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- MEDLINE with Full Text (at EBSCOhost)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences with links to full text.
- MEDLINE (with Full Text) combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. MEDLINE with Full Text provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. It also includes MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
Database provider: EBSCO Publishing, Inc. (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health).
- Coverage Dates: 1966- ; full-text from 1990-
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbmf
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- MEDLINE (with Full Text) combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. MEDLINE with Full Text provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. It also includes MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
- OregonPDF in Health & Performance
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Provides full-text dissertations in areas related to health and performance.
- OregonPDF in Health & Performance provides over 10,000 dissertations and theses in full-text in areas related to health and performance. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, psychology, and tests and measurements.
- Coverage Dates: 1948
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=oreg-uga1
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- PubMed (NCBI/NIH)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences with links to full text.
- PubMed is the publicly available version of MEDLINE and combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. PubMed includes citations to articles from 1966 to the present and links from citations to full-text articles from 100 journals 1990 to the present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.
- Coverage Dates: 1966-
- Updated: Daily
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pubb-uga1
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- ScienceDirect
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from scholarly journals on all the sciences, including the social sciences.
- ScienceDirect provides full text access to scholarly journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
- Coverage Dates: 1995 - present (Academic Press journals: 1996 - present)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: Elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsdi-uga1
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- Web of Science (at Web of Knowledge)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the combined Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
- Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journal. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.
- Coverage Dates: 1945- (Science Citation Index); 1956- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: isi
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xwos-uga1
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Books
- GIL Library Catalog
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Search the UGA Libraries catalog for books, journals, CD-ROMs, and other media. Use title, author or subject searches, or perform a keyword search.
- URL: http://gil.uga.edu
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- NetLibrary (full-text electronic books)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.A collection of electronic books (eBooks) on most topics, including computers and technology.
- NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
Users can create an account in order to use personalization tools, including creating a Favorites list, but a personal account is not required for accessing eBooks through the GALILEO interface. A personal login is required when accessing through library catalogs and through the NetLibrary web site.
NetLibrary Titles Index for Shared Collections 1 and 2 (at SOLINET).
Database provider: NetLibrary, a Division of OCLC.
- Coverage Dates: Currently available
- Updated: Collections are closed.
- Database Provider: netlibrary
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zmnl
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- NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
Calculators
- InteliHealth Body Mass Index
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/14220/24119/196510.html?d=dmtContent
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- Martindale's Reference Desk: Medical, Health & Nutrition Calculators
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Extensive links to online medical & health science calculators and many other types of calculators.
- URL: http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html
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Conference Papers/Proceedings
- Conference Papers Index
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.For scientific and technical proceedings.
- Coverage includes scientific and technical proceedings in animal and plant science, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, experimental medicine, geology, marine science, mathematics, and pharmacology.
- See also: zccp:Backup Site (Ohio)
- Coverage Dates: 1989 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: Cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zccp
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- PapersFirst (conference papers)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index of papers presented at conferences.
- The PapersFirst database provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, PapersFirst is a major new research aid, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October 1993. Users may order the full text of papers cited in PapersFirst from The British Library using the FirstSearch online ordering service.
- Coverage Dates: 1993 to present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: firstsearch
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zopi
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- ProceedingsFirst (conference proceedings)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index of conference proceedings.
- The ProceedingsFirst database provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each ProceedingsFirst record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.
- Coverage Dates: 1993 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: firstsearch
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zop1
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Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
- Medicine.Net Medical References
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site includes a medical dictionary written entirely by physicians that contains 8,500 medical definitions for standard medical terms, abbreviations, and acronyms. The site also includes a Diseases & Conditions guide, a Procedures & Tests guide and a Medications guide.
- URL: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
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- MEDLINEplus (at National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health)
Online Access: On/Off CampusA web site of consumer health resources .
- MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, provides resources on common diseases and conditions, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, directories for locating hospitals and doctors, information on prescription and non-prescription drugs, and more information of interest to the public.
- Database Provider: nih_gov
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=imei
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- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This 17th edition of The Merck Manual was published in 1999. The goal of the Merck Manual is "to provide useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in a concise, complete, and accurate manner. The Merck Manual continues to cover all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects.
- URL: http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
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- Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Online Access: On/Off Campus- From the InteliHealth homepage click on "Medical Dictionary". The InteliHealth site also has a drug index and diseases and conditions guide.
- URL: http://www.intelihealth.com
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- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This free version of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary includes more than 53,000 medical definitions. (Scroll to bottom of screen for search form).
- URL: http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/tabersearch.cgi
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Directories
- AMA DoctorFinder
Online Access: On/Off Campus- From the web site: "DoctorFinder provides you with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States. This includes more than 814,000 doctors."
- URL: http://webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/home.html
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- American Hospital Directory
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This directory of American Hospitals includes address, services, utilization and financial statistics from the latest American Hospital Association Survey.
- URL: http://ahd.com/freesearch.php3
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- Boards of Nursing
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Directory of state boards of nursing. Includes web sites when available.
- URL: http://www.allnurses.com/Boards_of_Nursing/USA/
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- DIRLINE: Directory of Health Organizations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- From the website: "DIRLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online database of approximately 14,000 records containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine."
- URL: http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
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- Georgia Rural Health Interactive Directory
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This online directory contains listings of health care providers and related social services in rural Georgia.
- URL: http://www.oacs.mcg.edu/Rural
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- MEDLINEplus (at National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health)
Online Access: On/Off CampusA web site of consumer health resources .
- MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, provides resources on common diseases and conditions, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, directories for locating hospitals and doctors, information on prescription and non-prescription drugs, and more information of interest to the public.
- Database Provider: nih_gov
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=imei
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- Nursing Associations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Directory of websites for 114 U.S. and 29 International Nursing Organizations.
- URL: http://www.allnurses.com/Nursing_Associations/Nursing/
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- Nursing Schools
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Directory of websites for 252 U.S. and 26 foreign nursing schools.
- URL: http://www.allnurses.com/Nursing_Schools/
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Government Publications
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The CDC site provides a wealth of data, statistics, fact sheets and publications.
- URL: http://www.cdc.gov/
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- Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Directory of federal health information centers and clearinghouses.
- URL: http://www.health.gov/nhic/Pubs/clearinghouses.htm
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- Georgia Division of Public Health
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides links to reports, news, and Georgia state and county health statistics.
- URL: http://health.state.ga.us/healthdata/index.asp
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- Healthfinder
Online Access: On/Off Campus- From the website: "Healthfinder(r) is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder(r) can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public."
- URL: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
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- Reports of the Surgeon General
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "The Reports of the Surgeon General contains official reports, conference and workshop reports, and proceedings from the Office of the Surgeon General."
- URL: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/
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- www.health.gov
Online Access: On/Off Campus- From the website: "www.health.gov is a portal to the web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal Departments".
- URL: http://www.health.gov
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Guides/Handbooks
- Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones
Online Access: On/Off Campus- An educational tool for learning about the human body. X-ray images and bone photos of the human skeleton are viewable with or without explanatory labels. Both normal bones and those having fractures or other medical conditions are included.
- URL: http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/xrays/
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- MEDLINEplus Drug Information
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The National Library of Medicine provides this "guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in the USP DI(r) and Advice for the Patient(r)." Provides patient level information on usage, precautions, interactions, and side effects.
- URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
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- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This 17th edition of The Merck Manual was published in 1999. The goal of the Merck Manual is "to provide useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in a concise, complete, and accurate manner. The Merck Manual continues to cover all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects.
- URL: http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
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- National Guideline Clearinghouse
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Directory of links to summaries and often full text of patient care guidelines from a large number of medical organizations.
- URL: http://www.guideline.gov
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- RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Index of more than 4000 products currently on the U.S. market or close to approval. Includes indications, pharmacology, side effects, and drug interactions. Also provides alternative medicine, frequently asked questions and patient medication monographs.
- URL: http://www.rxlist.com/
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Statistics
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The CDC site provides a wealth of data, statistics, fact sheets and publications.
- URL: http://www.cdc.gov/
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- Georgia Division of Public Health
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides links to reports, news, and Georgia state and county health statistics.
- URL: http://health.state.ga.us/healthdata/index.asp
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- Internet Resources for Health Statistics, Regulations, and Census Data
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Links to major health statistics sites, census data, and federal government health regulations.
- URL: http://www.libs.uga.edu/researchcentral/subjectguides/healthst.html
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- LexisNexis Statistical
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies
- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- Search Tables Base Edition: selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
- Search Abstracts:
- American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
- Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
- Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and inter-governmental sources
Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.
- Coverage Dates: 1970s-
- Updated: Biannually
- Database Provider: cis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xstu-uga1
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- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides a wide range of national health statistics.
- URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm
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- Statistical Resources on the Web: Health
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This extensive list contains links to websites with databases and publications providing health statistics.
- URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
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Web Subject Guides
- Allnurses.com directory of nursing resources
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Directory of all types of Internet resources useful to nurses.
- URL: http://www.allnurses.com/
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- HealthWeb
Online Access: On/Off Campus- From the website: "HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers in meeting their health information needs."
- URL: http://healthweb.org/
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- Public Health InfoLinks
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health maintains this site of over 2,300 links to resources related specifically to the Public Health professions.
- URL: http://www.sph.emory.edu/PHIL/
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