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Nursing and medicine – databases and other web resources

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Search via Helsebiblioteket:
  • Ovid-databases*

    • AMED (Ovid)*
      Physiotherapy, ergotherapy, speech therapy, rehabilitation, palliative care and complementary and alternative medicine. Reference database
    • British Nursing Index (Ovid)*
      References to articles in more than 250 English language journals on nursing, midwifery and the health service.
    • EMBASE (Ovid)*
      Excerpta Medica Database Guide: Medicine, pharmacology, toxicology and more. International, but European oriented, reference database.
    • MEDLINE (Ovid)*
      Regarded as the leading reference database on medicine, nursing, pharmacy, odontology, healthcare and related subjects.
    • Nursing Database (Ovid)*
      Full-text articles from 276 journals in Medline and Journals@ovid 
    • PsycINFO (Ovid)*
      References to articles and more in psychology and related subjects. Good supplement within the fields of psychiatry and psychology.
  • ProQuest Medical Collection*
    Comprises four reference and full-text databases on health sciences: 
If you want to read Norwegian articles, try searching these databases:
More article databases - accessible for Harstad University College:
  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)*
    Interdisciplinary full-text database. English articles in full-text and references of a high professional level.
  • ERIC (EBSCO)* Education Resources Information Center
    Education and teaching. Full-text database, reference database.
  • Idunn.no
    Norwegian journals published by Universitetsforlaget, Aschehoug and Gyldendal akademisk. Some journals and articles in English.
  • PsycArticles / APA*
    Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from 60 scientific journals in psychology and related subjects.
  • Web of Science (ISI)*
    Covers the world's leading journals in the humanities, art, social science and technical subjects.
    Comprises three reference and citation indexes:
    • Science Citation Index Expanded
    • Social Sciences Citation Index
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Index 
Article databases - open access
  • Amedeo
    Bibliographic monitoring of medical scientific journals. Reference database.
  • Bibliotek.dk Article search 
  • BioMed Central
    Medical, nursing and biomedical research. Independent publisher. Open access to all source articles published by BioMed in full-text after publication.
  • Clinical evidence 
    International medical research on the effect and side-effects of treatments of more than 240 diagnoses. Subject gateway, full-text, references.
  • Cochrane Library
    Clinical medicine: A collection of databases featuring overviews of the effect of prevention, measures, treatment, surgery etc. Subject gateway, full-text, references.
  • DARE: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects 
    Contacts abstracts and systematic reviews of effects and measures in healthcare and social work. Reference database.
  • DiVA: Academic Archive On-line 
    An open access institutional research archive for Nordic universities (Swedish dominance). DiVA was developed at the Unit for Digital Publishing at the Uppsala University Library.  
  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals 
    Free access to full-text articles from quality assured scientific journals
  • Free Medical Journals.com
    Free access to 430 medical journals with various embargoes for articles in full-text
  • Google Scholar 
    Interdisciplinary reference database with some full-text.  
  • GoPubMed 
    Specialist search engine for PubMed.
  • HeRA: Helsebiblioteket's Research Archive
    "HeRA is the Norwegian Electronic Health Library's (Helsebiblioteket) open research archive for hospitals and other health institutions in Norway. The archive contains research publications already published (post print archiving), such as full-text peer reviewed journal articles, reviews, reports and other publications."
  • HighWire Press, Stanford University 
    Freely available full-text articles on medicine and health science (varying embargoes apply)
  • NORA: Nowegian Open Research Archives 
    National search service for scientific information in open institutional repositories.
  • Open-JGate 
    Comprehensive portal to open access full-text journals from around the world.
  • PubMed 
    Free version of Medline. References to articles in medicine, nursing, odontology, healthcare, biology and related subjects.
  • PubMed Central 
    Free archive containing biomedical and scientific journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  • WHO Library Database (WHOLIS) 
    Reference database, full-text database. All WHO publications and more, often with links to full-text documents.
  • Interdisciplinary article index for Danish public and academic libraries.
Electronic books
  • Ebrary*
    Electronic books in full-text. Interdisciplinary, but with a focus on economics, social sciences, the humanities and medicine.
  • eMedicine
    "The original open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields".
    On-line knowledge bank for clinical medicine. Knowledge-based content with up-to-date peer-reviewed guidelines and medical articles.
  • FreeBooks4Doctors
    Find medical books freely available on the internet.
  • Google Books
    Global collection of e-books. Search for selected works in the full text of books. If the author's copyright is terminated, you will get access to the full text or you will get suggestions about where to loan (BIBSYSx) or purchase the book.
  • The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library 
    Full-text e-books covering all subjects within internal medicine, as well as detailed information on paediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and much more.
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