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  • A & P Revealed — McGraw-Hill's Anatomy & Physiology Revealed is an interactive cadaver dissection experience. A & P uses cadaver photos combined with a layering technique that allows the user to peel away layers of the human body to reveal structures beneath the surface. A & P Revealed offers animations, radiologic imaging, audio pronunciations, and more. NOTE: A&P should now work from off-campus computers. Once you are connected to A&P you may be prompted by A&P to login again. Use your NWC login. It also may take up to 2 minutes for A&P to open. Please be patient. If you continue to have problems, please let us know.
  • Academic Search Premier — (via EbscoHost) Full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further.
  • Alternative Healthwatch — (via EbscoHost) Full text for 180 publications, many peer-reviewed journals; subject areas cover complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
  • America's Historical Newspapers (1690-2000) (Newsbank) — Find news articles covering topics in government, politics, social issues, culture, literature discoveries, inventions and more from hundreds of primary sources . Newsbank also includes current events and special reports.
  • Associates Programs Source Plus — From EBSCOHost,  this database  (also referred to as Vocational Studies Premier) is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content.  The database covers subjects as wide-ranging as: alcohol & drug abuse counseling, audiology, biotechnology, computer & data processing, CAD, cosmetology, electrical technology, fashion design, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, paralegal studies, robotics, travel & tourism, veterinary assisting, and dozens more.
  • CINAHL — Definitive database for nursing and allied health research. Find information on Audiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Respiratory Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, and Consumer Health.
  • Cochrane Library — Reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of health care. Published on a quarterly basis, this database is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
  • Credo Reference — General reference source, aggregating content of major subjects from the "best publishers of reference."
  • New Database Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) (via STATRef!)
  • Films on Demand — Collection by Films Media Group (FMG) of online educational videos. These films are viewed through streaming video and can be linked by faculty into online classes. Flash is the recommended viewing software. If streaming is not smooth, try a lower playback file size (300, or 400).
  • Gale Reference (GVRL) — All of your favorite reference books online. Search within one reference title, across several reference titles, or even across several other Gale databases.  Note: GVRL may perform better with Firefox browser rather than Internet Explorer.
  • Global Road Warrior — Created by World Trade Press, this database provides statistics on countries around the world: demographics, banking, culture, climate, images, transportation, health, maps, travel, embassies, etc.
  • New Database HathiTrust — HathiTrust (pronounced "Hot'-y" is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.
  • Health Source - Consumer Edition — (via EbscoHost) Rich collection of consumer health information including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.
  • Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition — (via EbscoHost) 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
  • LearningExpressLibrary "Learn a Test" (Practice Exams) — Free online academic and licensing practice tests and exams. Learning Express offers over 27 tests including GED, SAT, TOEFL, Nursing, GRE, Firefighter, Civil Service, U.S. Citizenship, Writing. Login using your library card number and choose your own password.
  • Lexis-Nexis — Lexis Nexis has full-text and abstracts of news, business, and legal information. Great source for regional, national, and international newspaper coverage.
  • MedicLatina — (via EbscoHost) Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers; full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
  • Medline — A service of the National Library of Medicine, this database provides access to Medline citations back to the mid-1960s and additional life science journals. It includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

     

  • New Database Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy - 19th ed. (via STATRef!)
  • Mobile Search to Academic Search Premier & Other Ebsco Databases — Ebsco-provided databases formatted for your mobile phone, iTouch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Dell Axiom, Palm 750 and other devices. Your database choices include our nursing, business, and history databases, Agricola and GeoRef. Javascript must be enabled on your device (BlackBerry users see Enable Javascript on BlackBerry.)
  • Nature Online — This Nature USA Edition from NPG is the online version of Nature journal.
  • Nursing Resource Center (Gale) — Designed to support nursing programs. NRC offers premier supplemental reference material geared to the education and research needs of nursing students, including access to sample care plans, multimedia content, full text reference books, citations to journals in the field and more.
  • OmniFile Full Text Select (via Ebscohost) — Full text access to magazine and journal articles. Covers about 1,700 periodicals, in all disciplines. From mid-1990s to the present.
  • OvidSP: LWW Nursing & Health Professions Premier Collection — OVID's (Wolters Kluwer) collection of searchable nursing journals and publications.
  • Proquest Nursing & Allied Health — ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source™ provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.
  • Proquest Central — An interdisciplinary database by Proquest; includes JBI (nursing evidence-based journals) and agricultural journals.
  • Proquest Health & Medicine Complete — This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
  • Proquest SciTech Collection — Proquest's full Science and Technology collection including biological, medical, physical, environmental, engineering, materials, toxicology, aerospace, telecommunications, computer sciences and much more!
  • PsycARTICLES — (via EbscoHost) From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
  • PsychiatryOnline - DSM Premium — From the American Psychiatric Association (APA), PsychiatricOnline includes the DSM Library and several leading journals and texbooks in psychiatry and psychology.
  • Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 — Wilson's Reader's Guide Index provides article citations written between 1890-1982. This resource cross-links to the library's Article Linker which searches for full-text articles. Now provided by EbscoHost.
  • Reference Universe-- Search Hinckley Library Reference (Paratext) — A search engine to search the complete back-of-the-book indexes and articles to over 16,000 reference works and then matches them to Hinckley Library's reference collection.
  • Research Guide - Nursing — For nursing students, this guide shows you how to write your paper using evidence-based research and how to find and cite the resources you will need.
  • New Database STATRef! — The premier healthcare e-source
  • Science Direct: College Edition — Peer-reviewed journals, books, handbooks, & reference books covering scientific, social science, medical and technical information.
  • Serials Locator — Have a journal citation but need to find which database carries the full text? Search for the journal's title in this electronic journal locator tool created by SerialsSolutions.
  • USA.gov — The official portal for all USA federal, state. and local information, from online documents and resources to social security benefits, government jobs and tips on stretching your dollars.
  • New Database UpToDate (for Nurses, Clinicians & Patients) — Every day, clinicians have questions about patient care. Patients have questions about their health as well. Why not recruit a faculty of experts to answer those questions, keep the information updated, and create a format that's easy to use? And why not also provide all of the necessary background information to understand why the recommendations are being made? UpToDate is the largest clinical community in the world dedicated to synthesizing knowledge for clinicians and patients.
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