LibGuides: CSD 415: Databases

ARTICLE Databases

Use these databases to find articles from trade journals and scholarly journals in the health sciences, pyschology and communication fields.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to health science literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. In addition, it includes standards of practice and evidence-based care guidelines.
Communication Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Communication Abstracts covers major journals is communication studies, mass media, and other closely-related fields.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes, abstracts and provides acesss to selected full-text articles from the Mass Media Articles Index(MMAI) produced by Penn State University and CommSearch, produced by the National Communication Association (NCA).
This database is a combination of two communication indexes, the Mass Media Articles Index (MMAI) produced by Penn State University and CommSearch, produced by the National Communication Association (NCA). Communication and Mass Media Complete will index more than 385 journals with full text access to articles in 160 journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Covers medical disciplines and information regarding prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and nutritional supplements. Contains 650 full text journals and abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide
Nursing & Allied Health (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Journals and dissertations covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.
Search tips and a Thesaurus are available at the top of the search page or at the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database LibGuide
[Link to: http://proquest.libguides.com/nahd]
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The PsycINFO , database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages.
R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
R2 Library is an eBook database for Nursing and Speech Therapy/Audiology and includes over 500 books from leading health science publishers.. New titles are added to the database as they become available.