Databases for Research: Health
Off-Campus Access
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contains a significant amount of Canadian content
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no login required (open access)
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| Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) Provides information focusing on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. |
| British Pharmacopoeia Online (Please Note: Our licence is for 5 concurrent users only. Please click "Log out" when you are finished.) (The Stationery Office (TSO)) Online access to the print version of British Pharmacopoeia, standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. |
| CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Health Literature) (EBSCO) Full-text research articles and clinical practice information in nursing and allied health disciplines. |
| Contact Canada Life Science Search Engine (Contact Canada) The online versions of Contact Canada's Pharma and BioPharma Canada, Canadian Medical Technologies, and Canadian Biotechnology print directories, providing company profiles, contact information, and industry statistics. |
| e-CPS - Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (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) 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) Provides access to thousands of nursing and allied health journals, videos of live surgery, and topical overviews. |
| Health Source: Consumer Education Edition (EBSCO) 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) 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) (EBSCO) Provides access to information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. |
| Ovid (MEDLINE, EBM Reviews) (Minimum Browser Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape 6.x) (Wolters Kluwer) Provides access to a collection of health information resources. |
| ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest) Provides access to information from leading nursing and nursing related publications. |
| Psychology eCollection (Gale) Provides access to a broad range of sources on the subject of psychology. |
| PubMed (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 (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: Our licence is for 5 concurrent users only.) (Teton Data Systems) Provides access to healthcare resources in a variety of disciplines including: nursing, nutrition, oncology and more. |
| Teen Health & Wellness (Rosen Publishing) Provides access to health related information, reports and self-help tools. |
| USP-NF Online -- In-library access only -- (Seneca@York only. Please contact reference / library staff to obtain access) (United States Pharmacopeial Convention) Provides the latest U.S. FDA standards of identity, strength, quality, and purity for prescription and non-prescription drug ingredients and dosage forms, dietary supplements, medical devices and other healthcare products. |
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