Subject Guides: Nursing: More Health & Medical Databases

Health & Medical Databases

Access to many library resources is restricted to current students, faculty and staff of North Island College. To access these resources you will be asked to enter your myNIC credentials then click on the Login button.

Note that the major nursing database (CINAHL) has a separate page on this guide: CINAHL

Check out lots of great SEARCH TIPS

If you find a reference to an article that is not available full-text at NIC Library you may request it via the Where Can I Get This? icon in the database. Details here: INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

Ageline This link opens in a new window
Focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. Primarily peer-reviewed content from over 200 journals, books, book chapters and reports.
Alt Healthwatch This link opens in a new window
A full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.
Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive This link opens in a new window
Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides nearly 900 full text journals, including nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications, covering virtually all areas of medical study.
CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new window
Also included in the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (Ovid SP) This link opens in a new window
Includes Cochrane Databases.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Medline Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on all aspects of medicine, nursing, health care system, veterinary medicine, and much more.

Trip Database
Open access. High quality research evidence.
Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (Sigma Repository)

Finding Primary Research in Medical Databases

Finding Primary Research
Check out the tabs on this page to learn how to find primary research in the NIC databases.