Core databases for finding articles in this subject area.
Biological Abstracts
     
Citations and abstracts of journal articles in the life sciences, with topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology.
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BIOSIS Previews
Citations and abstracts to journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, including agriculture, biochemistry, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, and zoology.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
  
The world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for over 600 journals indexed in CINAHL, as well as full text for over 200 books/monographs, and evidence-based care sheets. CINAHL includes citations from over 2500 journals.
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Cochrane Library
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, the Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials - all the current evidence in one single environment.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source, the Nursing/Academic Edition, provides full text articles from over 600 journals, including over 170 nursing journals. Full-text information on prescription drugs, over-the-counter products, and nutritional supplements from Clinical Pharmacology is also provided.
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Medline (Web of Knowledge)
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier life sciences database. Contains citations and abstracts of articles in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and related fields.
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MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
The database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is available through the EBSCOhost online system, which has links to some FULL TEXT articles. Over 3,500 journals cover clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing and many other topics. Citations are from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and the Index to Dental Literature.
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Science Citation Index Expanded
Part of the Web of Science, Science Citation Index provides citations to journal articles in the sciences, including astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics, psychiatry, and zoology.
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Related databases for finding articles in this subject area.
Academic Search Complete
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. There are over 270 titles related to the nursing discipline.
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Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
Part of the Web of Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science provides citations to papers and proceedings of science conferences from 1990 to present.
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Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Provides descriptions and reviews of behavioral measurement instruments used in health assessment, psychosocial evaluation,
and behavior studies, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, coding schemes, rating scales, checklists, indexes, and tests.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Provides access to health reference material such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of
authoritative medical sources.
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Health Reference Center
Offers medical topic overviews from Clinical Reference Systems and numerous medical reference books as well as full text of nursing and allied health journals.
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ScienceDirect
The world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. The database has over 200 titles in nursing and health professions. Journals include The Lancet, Nurse Education Today, Nurse Education in Practice, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the American Journal of Medicine.
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Search online catalogs to find books, journals, videos, and other materials in library collections.
CUNY+
Search CUNY+ to find books and other materials related to health and nursing at the College of Staten Island and CUNY.
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WorldCat
Search WORLDCAT to find books and other materials not in CUNY+. WORLDCAT includes over 40,000,000 records of any type of material cataloged by thousands of OCLC member libraries.
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Journals available online or in print at the CSI Library.
Nursing and Allied Health Journals
Nursing and allied health journals are available in print and online from the CSI Library. Listed here are journals in health and biological sciences, inluding nursing, medicine, public health and psychiatry, etc. Click on a subject heading to see all the journals in that subject area.
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Pubmed Central
PubMed Central is a free web-based collection of full text biomedical and life sciences journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
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Extensive information from trusted sources on diseases and conditions, and drugs. Also available are online medical encyclopedia, dictionaries and interactive patient tutorials. All the resources listed below are free Internet resources.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides free Internet access to extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 750 diseases and conditions. It also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles.
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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Provides information about diagnosing and treating medical disorders for physicians and medical professionals. Print edition located in Reference [Call Number: RM127.M4].
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NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
NOAH - NY Online Access to Health provides access to full text consumer health information in English and Spanish. Particularly useful are the resources on New York City and Tri-state regional hospitals and hospices, support groups for specific conditions, and health statistics.
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UpToDate (Patient Version)
UpToDate (patient version) is a free web-based research tool that helps patients learn more about their medical conditions. They can better understand their treatment options and have a improved dialogue with their health care provider.
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The systematic review or meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and evidence based practice guidelines are considered to be the strongest level of evidence on which to guide practice decisions. The following are resources and search strategies for finding systematic reviews and evidence based practice guidelines.
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) provides evidence synthesis and systematic evidence reviews.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature contains citations to systematic reviews in the journal literature. To find them, search CINAHL for the disease state. Apply the appropriate subheadings to narrow the search. CINAHL Therapy Subheadings: Diet therapy; Drug therapy; Nursing; Radiotherapy; Rehabilitation; Surgery; Therapy. Limit results to Evidence-Based Practice and English. If this yields no articles, try the following limits for Publication Type: Clinical Interventions; Clinical Trial; Nursing Interventions; Protocol; Research; Tables/Charts
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Cochrane Library
Contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world?s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care. DARE complements Cochrane reviews by offering a selection of quality assessed reviews in those subjects where there is currently no Cochrane review.
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MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
To find systematic reviews in MEDLINE via EBSCO, do a subject search. Limit the search to English, Humans and EBM Reviews. In some cases, there will be no results after limiting to ebm reviews. If this happens, go back and limit your search by Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Evaluation Studies; Meta-Analysis; Multicenter Study; Validation Studies. When searching PubMed, use Clinical Queries.
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National Guideline Clearinghouse
NGC offers free access to evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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MedlinePlus: Health Statistics
The Health statistics page of the MedlinePlus Web site provides links to latest news in health statistics, statistics for specific conditions and different age groups, as well as statistical agencies and organizations.
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
This site is a rich source of information about America's health. As the nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of American people. The site features information about the National Center for Health Statistics, summaries of their publications from 1994-present, news releases, and catalogs of publications and electronic products.
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New York State Dept. of Health: Health Care Data for Researchers
Lists most current New York State statistics for AIDS, ambulatory surgery, cancer, communicable diseases, county health indicator profiles, diabetes, environmental and occupational health, heart disease, health care reform and managed care, hospital discharges, injury facts, information for state health policy, public health data set, and vital statistics.
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APA Style and Plagiarism Prevention Resources
This resource page is developed to help students understand what constitutes plagiarism, and learn how to avoid it by citing sources properly using APA style.
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Transcultural Nursing Resources
This transcultural nursing resource page is developed specifically to help students with cultural and transcultual nursing research. It contains links to print and online resources, including encyclopedia, databases, books, and Websites. Strategy for locating journal articles using subject terms is also provided.
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