Health and Medicine
Scholarly research databases
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
Is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Free citations and abstracts, limited full text. Coverage: 1893 - present. Updated weekly.
If you get an error message when logging into your personal account through WMU, please clear your browser history or use an incognito window. - ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowClinical Key contains comprehensive content with the most current, evidence-based answers available for all medical and surgical specialties, including over 1000 top books, over 500 top journals and over 13,000 procedural videos.
- ProQuest Health and Medical Complete This link opens in a new windowProQuest Health and Medical Complete contains clinical research journals and consumer and health administration journals. Information dating back from 1840 to the present.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexes scholarly literature in the natural and social sciences. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars.
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 1,300 of them. From 1954 to the present. Updated weekly.
- Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Provides over 715 titles in full-text from leading publications, including training videos, multicultural reports, study paths, evidence-based nursing and training content from The Joanna Briggs Institute and dissertations in nursing and related fields.
Librarians comment: For video content and study paths select the Browse tab on the search screen. Alternatively, perform your search (e.g. blood pressure) and then select the video tab on the results page. - PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowCovers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1806-present. Updated weekly.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowEvidence-based medicine databases including systematic reviews and a controlled trials register on the effects of health care.
Health testing instruments
- PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
Includes over 7500 profiles and 5400 unpublished, non-commercial tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments with description, purpose, limited history, administration, and usually the actual test instrument for measurement in psychology, psychiatry, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Coverage dates from the early 1900s to the present, with 54% are from 2000 and later; 74% are from 1990 and later.