Health Science
Discovery Search
Discovery performs a keyword search of all Hofstra University Library holdings and open access resources for print and electronic books, journals, videos, etc..
To search for just articles, click on "Articles" tab:
Enter keywords to search the library's catalog for full text electronic articles.
Open Access Databases
Research Databases
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Academic Search Ultimate Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. Includes over 9,000 active full-text journals and magazines
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bioRXiv.org bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. 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.
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CINAHL Complete provides full text for more than 1,300 journals in nursing & allied health, including many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo.
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Cochrane Library A collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Also includes a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
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Coronavirus Research Database A free health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Health and Medicine Articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related videos and multimedia.
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JAMA Network Includes the full text of Journal of the American Medical Association and other JAMA publications, as well as the specialty Archives Journals. All the journals publish Online First content.
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Medline Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
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PsycINFO Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health. Journal coverage from the 1800s to the present.
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PubMed/Medline Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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ScienceDirect Full-text scientific database. Includes journal articles and book chapters. Contains Philosophy of Science.
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Sociology Collection Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below): Sociological AbstractsSociology DatabaseApplied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts(ASSIA)
Advanced Searching on Ebsco Databases
Streaming Databases
- AVON: Health Sciences
- Films on Demand
- JoVE (JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students at thousands of universities, colleges, hospitals and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning)
Databases: If you know...
If you know the name of a specific database, then go to A-Z Databases for an alphabetized list of all Hofstra databases: