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CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1982-present. CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) covers journals, books, and other materials in nursing and several allied health fields. Pre-CINAHL, a companion database, provides current awareness of new journal articles, and enables users to gain access to article citations that are in the process of being added to CINAHL.
Nursing and Allied Health Source (ProQuest)
(article index)
Full-text journals and dissertations in nursing and the allied health fields, as well as Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the Joanna Briggs Institute.
PubMed
(article index)
1946-present. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 21 million citations from biomedical and life science journals. To determine more easily if UNC has access to the full text of articles, login using the username and password available from the online user name and password list (click on User Names and Passwords, then enter your name and UNC ID number).
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
(article index)
1872-present. Covers both journal and book literature in psychology.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (EBSCOhost)
(reference resource)
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a database of controlled trials and other healthcare interventions that serves as the best available resource for those preparing and maintaining systematic reviews or searching for trials.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (EBSCOhost)
(reference resource)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews indexes reviews of research in healthcare and health policy. Cochrane Reviews base their findings on the results of trials which meet certain quality criteria, since the most reliable studies will provide the best evidence for making decisions about health care.
Cochrane Methodology Register (EBSCOhost)
(reference resource)
The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a database of studies relevant to the methods of systematic reviews of healthcare and social interventions. The register includes journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, conference abstracts and reports of ongoing methodological research.
eHRAF World Cultures
(reference resource)
Produced by Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University, this cross-cultural database contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCOhost)
(tests)
1985-present. Information about measurement
instruments in the health and psychosocial sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost)
(tests)
Mental Measurements Yearbook contains descriptive information and reviews of commercially available standardized educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to commercially available tests that are currrently in print in the English language. TIP provides information including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, print, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
(dissertations and theses)
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, with 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present. Over 1.2 million full text dissertations are available for download in PDF format, and over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
ProQuest Heath & Medical Complete
(article index)
Articles from leading health and medical journals, designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information, from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers.
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (1999-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1972-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
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