LibGuides: Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences: Finding Articles & Databases

Recommended Resources

PubMed
PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles. It also includes additional selected life sciences journals not found in MEDLINE.

These databases contain journal articles and other research materials on Health Sciences.

BioMedCentral Open Access
Over 150 peer-reviewed journals in medicine and biology.
CINAHL
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The main index for nursing literature and allied health.

Update frequency: weekly
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature is an index to literature in nursing and allied health. This database provides indexing, abstracting, and full text for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 700,000 records.
Scopus
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Scopus is an index to peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.

Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
SciFinder Scholar
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First-time users must register here to access the site.
Index to scholarly chemistry literature and database of chemical information searchable by chemical name or structure.

Use the search options at the top of the page to search for references, chemicals, or reactions. Searching for chemicals and reactions can be achieved by drawing them with the Structure Editor or Reaction Editor, respectively.

American College of Radiology
CHORUS: Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology
Radiological Society of North America
RadiologyInfo
A patient information site developed by the American College of Radiology and The Radiological Society of North America. Includes images and patient handouts.
The Basics of MRI
An online text by Joseph M. Hornak, a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.
American Society for Clinical Laboratory
Resources on this site include a "Consumer Laboratory Testing Information Page."
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
In keeping with our mission, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is responsible for protecting and promoting the public health.