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Health Source: Consumer

Use Health Source: Consumer Edition to search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

R2 Digital Library

R2 Digital Library hosts a selection of biomedical ebooks for pharmacy, nursing, and other health sciences. R2 offers ebooks from many leading biomedical publishers, including the American Nurses Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. Watch this 2-minute tutorial to get started using R2.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: Unlimited
  • Vendor: Rittenhouse
  • Publisher: Rittenhouse

SPORTDiscus with Full Text

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for sports and sports medicine journals,

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Academic Ebook Collection (EBSCO)

This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of ebooks covering a wide array of academic subjects and features ebooks from leading publishers and university presses. All ebooks in this collection have unlimited user access.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier replaced Academic Search Complete on 1/1/2024. More info …

Academic Search Premier provides fast access to articles from thousands of full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers across a wide range of topics, including the STEM disciplines, healthcare, education, social sciences, and the humanities. Along with hundreds of full-text periodicals, ASP has indexes and abstracts for thousands of articles which can be requested via interlibrary loan.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Academic Video Online (formerly VAST)

Academic Video Online is a streaming video collection containing thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, business, education, healthcare, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The Academic Video Online collection can be browsed or searched by discipline.

AVO was previously named VAST: Academic Video Online.

Formerly known as VAST: Academic Video Online.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Alexander Street Press

Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA)

A Cochrane Collection resource, Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA) provides a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from the Cochrane Collection's systematic reviews. Clinical Answers' intent is to provide clinicians with actionable knowledge and to inform decision making at the point of care. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to 'drill down' to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews.

The Cochrane Collection includes these databases:

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)

The CDSR is the leading resource for systematic reviews in healthcare.  Each Cochrane Review is peer reviewed. Currently, there are over 5,000 full-text reviews covering a wide range of healthcare research questions. Click the "More" tab above to view the full list of Cochrane Collection databases.

A good starting point for exploring the Cochrane Collection is Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA), a resource which applies the CDSR's systematic reviews to relevant clinical questions.

The Cochrane Collection includes these databases:

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: Cochrane Collaboration

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides hundreds of scholarly full text journal articles focusing on nursing and other medical disciplines.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited

MEDLINE Complete

Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative index of biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. MEDLINE contains citations from approximately 5,600 journals published worldwide. MEDLINE Complete provides the full text of over 2,500 of these journals.

PubMed, the NLM's own MEDLINE search interface, is available here.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Thesaurus

Use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus to get definitions of medical terms, and to discover the best search terms for finding relevant articles in the MEDLINE biomedical journal database.

The MeSH thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. MeSH terms are used for indexing, cataloging, and searching for biomedical and health-related information and documents. MeSH provides a consistent way to find content with different terminology but the same concepts. MeSH terms are arranged in a hierarchical structure so that broad searches will retrieve articles indexed with more narrow terms.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES collects, collates, analyzes, and reports complete statistics on the condition of American education; conducts and publishes reports; and reviews and reports on education activities internationally.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: U.S. Department of Education
  • Publisher: U.S. Department of Education

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides statistical information to guide actions and policies which improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS provides accurate, relevant, and timely health data. NCHS is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ovid: YourJournals@Ovid

Search and browse the full-text of over 160 peer-reviewed journals in healthcare, including the areas of nursing, pharmacy, and health information management.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Ovid

UpToDate

UpToDate is a clinical reference tool that provides current answers to patient care, diagnosis and treatment questions at the point of care. Over 200 journals are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews by clinical experts. The content is peer reviewed and fully referenced.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Wolters-Kluwer

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