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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

CINAHL Complete

CINAHL Complete is an index of virtually all English-language nursing journals. This includes publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, as well as primary journals from allied health disciplines. More than 1,300 of the journals indexed in CIHAHL Complete are available in full text.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
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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

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete provides consumer-oriented health content that's designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. It contains the full text of more than 250 health reference books and encyclopedias, as well as thousands of images and videos.

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

Drug Information Portal

This National Library of Medicine site lets you search a wide range of US government resources for information on over 15,000 drugs. Drug Information Portal searches all of these databases: MedlinePlus, AIDSinfo, Medline/PubMed, LactMed, HSDB, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE, DailyMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.

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

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.
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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

medRxiv Preprint Server

medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Subject collections include pharmacy and nursing.

When citing article manuscripts from medRxiv, note medRxiv's caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

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  • Vendor: medRxiv
  • Publisher: medRxiv

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.

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  • Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Mometrix eLibrary

Mometrix offers over 4,500 study guide, practice test, and flashcard titles for 1,500+ different exams. Use Mometrix to study for advanced placement exams (including CLEP and AP), admission exams (including GMAT, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, PCAT, etc.), and professional exams (including CPA, NAPLEX, NCLEX, Praxis, etc.). If you need a study guide, you're likely to find what you need in Mometrix.

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  • Vendor: Mometrix
  • Publisher: Mometrix

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.

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  • 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.
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  • Publisher: Ovid

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.
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  • Vendor: Rittenhouse
  • Publisher: Rittenhouse

Salem Health

Online access to Magill's Medical Guide. The Guide includes over one thousand entries which describe major diseases and disorders of the human body, the basics of human anatomy and physiology, specializations in medical practice, and common surgical and nonsurgical procedures.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
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  • Publisher: Salem

TRIP Database

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence. TRIP strives to offer healthcare professionals a complete and updated list of online resources useful for evidence-based practice.

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  • Publisher: TRIP

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

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.
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  • 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

AccessPharmacy

With AccessPharmacy, you can browse core pharmacy curriculum topics, browse by organ system, review textbooks, and search across leading pharmacy online references. AccessPharmacy includes drug monographs, information on common diagnostic tests, calculators, and a wide variety of cases and care plans. At the core of AccessPharmacy is a set of over 20 pharmacy and medical references.

  • Core AccessPharmacy titles:
    • Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach
    • Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach
    • Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
    • Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
    • Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics
    • Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
    • Casarett and Doull's Essentials of Toxicology
    • CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care
    • Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists
    • Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology
    • Pharmacy and Federal Drug Law Review
    • Pharmacy Student Survival Guide
    • Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

From the publisher: "The Annals is an independent, peer-reviewed medical journal that advances pharmacotherapy throughout the world by publishing evidence-based articles on practice, research, and education."

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
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  • Publisher: SAGE Publications

Annual Reviews

Each year, Annual Reviews reviews the most significant primary research to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Area of coverage include biomedicine (including pharmacy), biology, chemistry, and the social sciences.

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

ASHP Ebook Collection

Browse 40+ full-text ebooks from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The collection is divided into two sets (with some overlap): the Core Collection and the Student Collection. Click the More tab to see the titles list. ASHP ebooks can be read online or downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.

As of Fall 2017 the ASHP Ebook Collection contains these titles:

Core Collection

  • Anticoagulation Therapy
  • Assuring Continuous Compliance with Joint Commission Standards
  • Basic Concepts in Medicinal Chemistry
  • Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data
  • Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • Compounding Sterile Preparations
  • Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations
  • Drug-Induced Diseases
  • Extended Stability for Parenteral Drugs
  • Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
  • Interpreting Laboratory Data
  • Letters to a Young Pharmacist
  • Medication Safety Officer's Handbook
  • Medicinal Chemistry Self Assessment
  • Pediatric Injectable Drugs (The Teddy Bear Book)
  • Preceptor's Handbook for Pharmacists
  • Safe Handling of Hazardous Materials
  • Smart Infusion Pumps
  • Wisdom from the Pharmacy Leadership Trenches

Student Collection

  • Applying Parenteral Stability Data in Patient Care
  • Basic & Applied Pharmacokinetics Self Assessment
  • Basic Concepts in Medicinal Chemistry
  • Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data
  • Career Paths in Academic Pharmacy
  • Career Paths in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy
  • Career Paths in Community Pharmacy
  • Career Paths in Industry and Population Health
  • Career Paths in Inpatient Care
  • Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • Compounding Sterile Preparations
  • Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • Concepts in Pharmacogenomics
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Evaluating Mobile Medical Applications
  • Evaluating Patients for Drug-Induced Disease
  • Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
  • G-Code 2014
  • Get the Residency
  • Hypertensive Crisis
  • Infectious Disease Pharmacotherapy Self Assessment
  • Interpreting Pediatric Laboratory Data
  • Introduction to Acute and Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice
  • Introduction to Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Practice
  • Letters from Rising Pharmacy Stars
  • Letters to a Young Pharmacist
  • Maximize Your Rotations
  • Medicinal Chemistry Self Assessment
  • NICU Primer for Pharmacists
  • Patient-Centered Care for Pharmacists
  • Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Self Assessment
  • Pharmacy in Public Health
  • The Conscience of a Pharmacist
  • The Pharmacist's Guide to Evidence Based Medicine for Clinical Decision Making
  • The Pharmacist’s Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy and Stewardship
  • The Pharmacy Leadership Field Guide
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: 10
  • Vendor: ASHP
  • Publisher: ASHP

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America

This resource is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. It contains citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications. BIPNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions and lived experiences of North America's Indigenous peoples.

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

bioRxiv Preprint Server

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. Articles on bioRxiv are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.

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  • Vendor: bioRxiv
  • Publisher: bioRxiv

Chemical References

Use the resources below for information about chemical names, structures, and properties. These resources can be searched by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or weight, InChIKey, or by structure.

  • ChemSpider
    A chemical structure database providing fast access to over 34 million structures, properties, and associated information. (Also see SyntheticPages for chemical reactions.)
  • PubChem
    PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public.
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  • Publisher: Varies

Exploring Race in Society

This database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Full-text essays, articles, reports and reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness.

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

Facts & Comparisons

Facts & Comparisons provides monographs detailing drug actions, indications, administration and dosage, interactions, adverse reactions, warnings and more. Comprehensive tables compare products of similar formulation, including dose form and strength, distributor name, how supplied, product identification codes and more.

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

FDA Orange Book

The Orange Book identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the FDA. (Note that drugs approved only on the basis of safety are not included.) The Orange Book also contains therapeutic equivalence evaluations for multisource prescription drugs. Searchable the Orange Book by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder, or application number.

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  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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

Hospital Pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacy is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on medication errors, adverse reaction reporting, formulary drug reviews, original research, current FDA-related drug information, off-label drug uses, new technology, and other topics of special relevance to practicing pharmacists.

Full text access to Hospital Pharmacy is provided via the CINAHL Complete database.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: 4
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: Thomas Land Publishers, Inc.

Medscape

Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After you register, Medscape automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site based on your registration profile.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: WebMD LLC

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

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

Merck Manual Online

The Merck Manual describes symptoms, common clinical procedures, laboratory tests, and virtually all the disorders that a general internist might encounter. The Manual also deals with problems of pregnancy and delivery; common and serious disorders of neonates, infants, and children; genetics; drug dependency; psychiatric disorders; and many disorders covered by other specialties.

See The Merck Veterinary Manual for animal health information. 

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Merck

Our World in Data

"The mission of Our World in Data is to make data and research on the world’s largest problems understandable and accessible." Broadly organized around the UN Global Sustainability goals, themes include health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, culture, energy use, education, and environmental changes.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
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  • Vendor: Global Change Data Lab
  • Publisher: Global Change Data Lab

Pharmacotherapy

Pharmacotherapy publishes original clinically relevant research complemented by evidence-based reviews about drugs and therapeutics.

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

PsycARTICLES

Search this database for full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database contains thousands of full-text articles from over 40 peer reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: American Psychological Asssociation

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to hundreds of full-text journals. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling. P&BSC can be searched independently, but also links to full text from citations within PsycINFO.

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

PsycINFO

PsycINFO indexes more than 2,500 peer-reviewed periodicals in the behavioral and social sciences. PsycINFO also indexes psychologically relevant book chapters and dissertations.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association

RxList: the Internet Drug Index

A searchable database of clinically-oriented drug information. Includes RxList Pill Identification Tool, which allows you to identify unknown tablets and capsules by searching for their ID imprint codes.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: RxList

SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX is a comprehensive sociology research database. Topics include criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, religion, social development, social psychology, social work, substance abuse and addiction, violence, and many others.

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

Sociological Collection

Sociological Collection provides full-text articles from hundreds of scholarly journals which examine a broad range of subjects relevant to sociology and its related disciplines. Topics covered include social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure, and more. 

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

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

Statista

As one of the largest statistics portals worldwide, Statista professionally gathers and compiles data from numerous institutes and sources. Users have access to statistics on more than 80,000 topics from over 18,000 individual sources covering a wide variety of disciplines, including business, education, health, political science, technology, and more. Business statistics are available for over 170 different industry sectors.

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

UpToDate Lexidrug (Lexicomp)

  • UpToDate with Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp) includes tools and resources for pharmacists and health professionals, including the following:
    • Drug Information: Concise monographs covering thousands of drugs
    • Interactions: Perform interaction analyses
    • Patient Care Module: Patient education leaflets
    • Drug Identification: Lexidrug ID provides quick identification of unknown medications
    • I.V. Compatibility: Access Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database
    • Medical Calculations: Calculators to assist with drug dosing, drip rates, and organ function assessment for adults and pediatrics
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

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