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Consumer Health Resources

The Consumer Health reference collection includes basic information on diseases, prescription drugs, directories of physicians, and other health-related resources. A variety of health related newsletters are also available.

Consumer Health Databases
Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as prompted.
Alt HealthWatch

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries More

full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. Hide

E-Journal Portal

Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

EBSCOhost Health Source - Consumer Edition

Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals providing information on many health topics including More

the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Also included in this database is searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets; 146 health reference books, 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.Hide

EBSCOhost Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and also features More

abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong and is updated on a daily basis.Hide

Gale Virtual Reference Library

A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics.

HealthCare

When looking for detailed information on 675,000 doctors and 180,000 dentists, turn to ReferenceUSA's HealthCare Database.

Issues and Controversies

Issues and Controversies features up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.

OCLC FirstSearch

OCLC FirstSearch is a gateway to several specialized databases. One of them, Medline, is a professional journal index for all areas of medicine More

including nursing and dentistry. It corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. It includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.Hide

Proquest Psychology Journals

Proquest Psychology Journals with full text is designed for both undergraduate and graduate level and contains psychological, psychiatric, and related publications.

Today’s Science

Search for the latest scientific discoveries and fundamental scientific concepts in health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and more.
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