Bibliographic Citations (leading to published reports & studies)

Journal articles 

                                  

CINAHL with Full-Text - Most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals,  with full-text coverage dating back to 1981.

ProQuest Family Health - Full-text information covering numerous aspects of family health from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. 

ProQuest Health and Medical Complete - Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties. 

PubMed  - Covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.  Provides access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.  Provided by the National Library of Medicine, part of the Federal Government's National Institutes of Health.

Pharmaceutical News Index - Pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries. 

Other Science Sources:

BioOne - electronic journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Articles in BioOne are fulltext, and include all illustrations and links from the original printed articles. BioOne journals are published by scholarly societies, museums and other organizations, many of which are members of the American Institute for Biological Sciences.

PNAS Online  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA Online.  Covers many areas of science, not just nursing and medicine.  Includes the full text plus the figures, tables, equations, and references of articles in PNAS dating back through 1996.
Online access available through LCSC campus network only.

ProQuest Biology Journals - Full-text journals in the life sciences. 

ProQuest Central - Includes articles from over 11,000 magazines and journals.  Many, but not all, provide the full-text of articles.  Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, and social sciences. 

ProQuest Psychology Journals - With complete full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals. 

ProQuest Science Journals - Full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.  

PsycINFO - Contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages.

SCIRUS - A comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, it enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily. It was launched by Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information.

Google Scholar - A new product from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.

Nursing Journals Database Tutorial - Learn how to get the most out of searching CINAHL, the premium nursing database.

 

Books and other Monographs

LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho.  Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.

Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Electronic books [log-in the same as searching for journal articles]

 

Encyclopedia of privacy / William G. Staples, editor.

 

The Gale encyclopedia of nursing & allied health

Statistical handbook on infectious diseases / Sarah B. Watstein and John Jovanovic.

UXL encyclopedia of drugs & addictive substances  / Barbara C. Bigelow ; Kathleen J. Edgar, project editor.

Working Spanish for Medical Professionals

 

WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world.  Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan.

Google Books - Info from their Website:  "Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given us permission through our Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book."  Click on the "About This Book" link and look for a link called "Find This Book in a Library" to locate the nearest library holdings.

 Health Web Sites (General)

 

For Consumers:

CHID (Combined Health Information Database) – A service of the National Institutes of Health that provides citations and abstracts of more than 101,000 health-related materials that have appeared in magazines, journals, newspapers, brochures, book chapters, and videotapes.  Does not provide full-text or information about local libraries owning the item.  (LCSC students can check to see if items are available among the electronic and paper resources provided by the Library.)

Healthtouch Online - Consumer health information, including information on vitamins, supplements, and natural medicine.

Medline Plus - Consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health.

Medical Week - A selection of health-related newsletters,  published by an independent company. Board members include academic surgeons at leading U.S. medical schools and journalists who ran major worldwide news-gathering organizations.  (Announcements require no subscription.)

MMWR surveillance summaries - Various information on mortality by the CDC.

State Health Facts.org - Provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

For Healthcare Professionals and Consumers:

Acronym Search - Provides definitions of acronyms, such as AAOHN (American Association of Occupational Health Nurses).

American Association of Critical Care Nurses - Provides standards for critical care practice, as well as information on certification, education, and research.  Access to many parts of the Website is restricted to members of the Association.

American Hospital Directory - A subscription service that provides limited hospital directory and statistical information to non-subscribers.

American Pain Society - Has links to some guidelines on pain management that can be purchased from their Online Store.

Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing - A website for members of this association.  They also provide limited information for non-members.

Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, University of Iowa - Click on the Iowa Index of Geriatric Tools to get links to information on gerontological nursing.

Health on the Net - Principles for high-quality healthcare Web sites from Health on the Net Foundation, Switzerland.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations – Access to accreditation information regarding compiled data and specific ratings of healthcare organizations.  Explains National Patient Safety goals.

Kootenai Medical Center Library (for Coeur d'Alene area students).  You can use their databases on-site by visiting their library.  To borrow books, please use Inter-Library Loan from LCSC.

LeapFrog Group -  The Leapfrog Group works with medical experts throughout the U.S. to identify problems and propose solutions that it believes will improve hospital systems that could break down and harm patients. Representing approximately 34 million health care consumers in all 50 states, Leapfrog provides important information and solutions for consumers and health care providers.

 

Government:

 

Science.gov - A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

USA.gov - A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.  Another good source of statistics.

Genome.gov - Supplies information about consumer health and counseling information for genetic disorders, as well as in-depth information for medical and scientific professionals.  From the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Medicare - The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare.  Includes a database of Medicare reviews of nursing homes. 

National Center for Health Statistics - From the Centers for Disease Control.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Information on careers from the Department of Labor.

 

Federal Digital System - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, including Congressional bills and hearings.  Provided by the Government Printing Office. 

Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.

 

      I-Docs - An online collection of paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government Documents.

Idaho North Central District Health Department -- One of the seven independent Public Health Districts that cover all of Idaho’s 44 counties and provide preventive health services and education for healthy life-style choices.

Idaho state fact sheet - facts that include but are not limited to population, income, education, and employment.

 

 

Citations:

 

APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.

MLA Citation Style - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style.  Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography.  A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.

Son of Citation Machine -- An "interactive Web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties" (from the Website).

 

Research Paper Help:

Online Writing Lab - A service of the Humanities Division at LCSC, this center provides one-on-one advice from other students on improving your papers before turning them in.

Online Resources for Writers - Links to useful information from colleges and universities, covering all phases of writing academic essays.  Provided by the Amherst Writing Center.

Idea Generator - organized by general subject areas.  A service of the Library at Old Dominion University.   You can use these simple keywords to help you generate ideas of your own for focused research paper topics.

Assignment Calculator - Based on the start date and due date for your assignment, this calculator will map out benchmarks for completing tasks leading up to the final paper.  It also provides links to other pages with tips on understanding your assignment, focusing your topic, etc.  It was developed by the library at the University of Minnesota, so a few of its linked resources are not available to you.  But we have many similar resources available to you on this campus.

Wikipedia : Researching with Wikipedia - A page on the Wikipedia site that describes the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of information.  It includes this statement:  "In all academic institutions, Wikipedia, along with most encyclopedias, is unacceptable as a major source for a research paper."

 

 

Standardized Tests:

 

Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.