Article Databases

- Health -

Off-Campus Access
- contains a significant amount of Canadian content
Open Access database - no login required (open access)

Warning: Citations provided by databases may not be in the correct citation style for your program. See Citing Sources for additional information.

Alt HealthWatch
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides information focusing on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Health Literature)
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to the most comprehensive index to research and clinical practice in nursing and allied health literature.
e-CPS - Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties Canadian content
(Canadian Pharmacists Association) e-CPS is the online edition of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS). It contains information on proprietary and nonproprietary Canadian drugs for both medical specialists and patients. It also provides links to Health Canada advisories.
Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
(Elsevier) Features subjects such as brain anatomy and chemistry, consciousness and cognition, behavior and neuropsychology, intelligence and memory, and various brain diseases.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
(Gale Group) Provides access to all levels of health research from specific technical topics to general interest subjects including medicine, nutrition and fitness.
Health Reference Center Academic
(Gale Group) Provides access to thousands of nursing and allied health journals, videos of live surgery, and topical overviews.
Health Source: Consumer Education Edition
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to information on many health topics including the medical sciences, psychology, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to information on many health topics including the medical sciences, nursing and allied health.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(Elsevier) Provides access to the largest encyclopedic work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) Canadian content
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences.
OVID (CancerLIT, Medline) (Minimum Browser Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape 6.x)
(Ovid Technologies) Provides access to a collection of health information resources.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
(ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides access to information from leading nursing and nursing related publications.
Psychology eCollection
(Gale Group) Provides access to a broad range of sources on the subject of psychology.
PubMed Open Access databaseCanadian content
(National Center for Biotechnology Information) PubMed provides access to citations to journal articles included in MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE as well as general science and chemistry journal citations.
PubMed Central Open Access database
(National Center for Biotechnology Information) PubMed Central is a free digital archive of 500,000+ articles from biomedical and life science journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
STAT!Ref (Please Note: The license is for 5 concurrent users only.)
(STAT!Ref) Provides access to healthcare resources in a variety of disciplines including: nursing, nutrition, oncology and more.
For Further Research

Experiencing a problem accessing one of our resources?
Submit a Database Access Problem Report.