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Workforce and Continuing Education students receive the same library access as traditional HC students. You can check out books, use the computers, and access library subscription databases. To request access to the online databases, fill out the form below and then make use of the instructions below:
This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Nursing and allied health journals from 1980-present (Gale). Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Health Research Premium Collection provides a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations.
The collection includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases, including Consumer Health Database, Healthcare Administration Database, MEDLINE, Nursing & Allied Health Database, Psychology Database, Public Health Database, and Health & Medical Collection.
The Journal of Allied Health is the official publication of the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP). The Journal is the only interdisciplinary allied health periodical, publishing scholarly works related to research and development, feature articles, research abstracts and book reviews. Readers of The Journal comprise allied health leaders, educators, faculty and students.
MEDLINE (ProQuest platform) contains over 20 million citations and abstracts, providing unparalleled access to worldwide biomedical literature. The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and since 2002, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases such as SPACELINE and HISTLINE. Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.
Research full-text titles cited in Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
ProQuest Public Health is designed to be the ideal starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with access to over 800 publications.
With journals, news, trade publications, reports and more, ProQuest Public Health covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences and biological sciences to business. Journal results are indexed from core literature collected from a variety of publishers using appropriate public-health terminology.
Key full-text titles include:
American Journal of Public Health
Maternal and Child Health Journal
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
AIDS Education and Prevention
Diabetes Care
Epidemiology and infection
Public Health Nutrition
The Lancet
New England Journal of Medicine
ProQuest Public Health also includes current newspaper articles for uncovering timely results on the latest breaking topics pertaining to public health, such as H1N1, disaster preparedness, and obesity.
9,000 full-text dissertations cover important scholarly topics such as Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Services Administration, International Public Health, Maternal & Child Health, and Occupational Safety & Health.
