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Health & Medicine

Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as username. A few are available only inside the library and are marked appropriately.

Databases:   By Subject     By Title               E-Journal Portal


HealthCare
When looking for detailed information on 675,000 doctors and 180,000 dentists, turn to ReferenceUSA's HealthCare Database.
   
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 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.
   
EBSCOhost Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals providing information on many health topics including 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.
   
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 abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong and is updated on a daily basis.
   
Proquest Psychology Journals
Proquest Psychology Journals with full text is designed for both undergraduate and graduate level and contains psychological, psychiatric, and related publications.
   
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics.
   
E-Journal Portal
Find specific online publications by title or by subject.
   

Please ask a librarian for assistance or telephone the Reference Desk at
(847)729-7500 ext. 111 for further information about these databases.


 
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