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Nursing and Allied Health Collection provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.
Provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Database for diagnosing infectious diseases. Includes differential diagnosis tool, current information on disease outbreaks, and epidemiological data.
Searches the literature on global and public health issues. This is one of the most comprehensive databases for global and public health. Good for information on public health issues and policies.
Search US Patent Office applications, European Union patent applications, and Japanese patent applications using Google's search structures. Search US Patent office data using Google search techniques. Includes searchable full-text of US patents from 1790.
Dean Giustini's comprehensive guide to grey literature resources. See links to additional guides on understanding grey literature.
The New York Academy of Medicine's publication of grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics. As of January 2017, this site is no longer updated, but the resources are still accessible.
List of grey literature document types.
International Directory of Organizations in Grey Literature.
Summaries of guidelines and recommendations from United Kingdom governmental agencies and European and global professional groups. Includes links to full-text of guidelines. Registration is not required to access guidelines.
Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.
2700 images with text to illustrate gross and microscoping pathological findings. Radiologic imaging associated with disease. Examination items and tutorials.
The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.
Images from British Wellcome Museum holdings including historical, contemporary, biomedical, and clinical collections.
Central database with access to clinical trial data sets from international trial registries around the world.
Good resource for CNS imaging combining clinical data with MR, CT, and nuclear medicine images.
A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Select "Medicine" from the Browse Column, then the resource of interest from the next menu.
Encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries in the sciences, technology, and medicine.
Authority for health within the United Nations system. Responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, and articulating and promoting evidence-based practices.
Health data and statistics for each country.
Health-related statistics on an international level. Data is organized around health status and health quality indicators in relation to the World Health Organization's sustainable development and universal health coverage goals.
Evidence-based guidelines for health policies and clinical interventions that have been approved by the World Health Organization Guidelines Review Committee.
General and technical information, data, multimedia, reports, and programs on a wide-range of global health topics.
Access to reports, guidelines, journals, other publications produced by the World Health Organization.
Mutilateral partnership allows for search of national scientific databases in over 70 participating countries. Includes papers, multimedia, data, and public access content. Search available in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese.