SoHP: Health Informatics Resources

Content: Database of open access, peer-reviewed journals specializing in biomedicine and life sciences.

Purpose: Database for science and medical students.

Special Features: Easily browse by journal, however, there is no advanced searching functionality.

Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.

Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.

Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.

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Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.

Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.

Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.

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Content: Comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

Purpose: Provides background reading on health issues. Check the "Refereed publications" box to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles. 

Special Features: A broad collection of premier full-text reference works, Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter, streaming video, audio, and images

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Content: EBSCO database of nursing and allied health journals with  nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Purpose: Informs users about topics such as pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, and more.

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Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.

Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics

Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles

Content: Medical database covering nursing, allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.

Purpose: Provides information about all topics relevant to nursing and nursing education

Special Features: Advanced search functions including MESH capability.

Content: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.

Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.

Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.

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Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports. 

Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics 

Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality

Content: A point-of-care, evidence-based clinical resource. 

Purpose: Useful for quick information about conditions, drugs, etc.

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