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Starting points for finding health information for the lay person.
Last update: Sep 30th, 2009 URL: http://guides.lib.washington.edu/health  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Finding Articles on Health-Related Topics

Below are listed a few major databases that are good starting points for finding journal articles in many areas of health sciences.

  • PubMed Home  
    U.S. National Library of Medicine biomedical journal literature search system
  • Web of Science  
    Multidisciplinary databases covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.[UW restricted]
  • CINAHL Plus  
    Bibliographic coverage of the literature in nursing and 17 allied health fields.[UW restricted]
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Find Information on Searching Health-Related Databases

Use databases to find citations (and sometimes full text) to articles and other materials. There are specialized databases for various subjects.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/databases/

For more information on how to use the databases listed above see:

      
     
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