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Medicine/Health

Title and Description	Some Fulltext	Coverage
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley)
Encyclopedia of the biological sciences. Includes biochemistry, cell biology, clinical medicine, ecology, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology ad virology, neuroscience, plant science, sicence and society, and more.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)		1980-current
Provides full-text materials, abstracts and citations to patient and consumer health information found in journals, magazines, pamphlets and reference works. Provides browsable access to Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Medical & Health Information Directory, Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, the USPDI, vol. 2: Advice for the Patient, and other resources.
IndexCat: the Surgeon General's Index		1880-1961
The online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961), is a comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports, and journal articles published from the 17th-20th century and held by NLM.
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (NYU)
Annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art related to medicine.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch)		1965-current
Indexes journals in all areas of medicine including dentistry and nursing. Corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.
MedlinePlus (NLM)
Authoritative and up to date professional and consumer health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
ProQuest		1986-current
Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals. Includes some newspapers, Historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
PubMed Central (NLM)		Dates vary
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)		Dates vary
Access to scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals. Search over 40 million abstracts from scientific articles. Link out to articles from over 120 other publishers.
Scopus (Elsevier)		dates vary
Abstract and citation database covering over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Emphasis on science and social science.
Wiley Interscience Journals (Wiley)		dates vary
Includes full-text of Wiley journals in science, business, education, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology, social sciences.