CINAHL Ultimate
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You want to search the medical science literature with a built-in focus on nursing and allied health articles. You can use MeSH subject terms in your search.What's Included?Articles from thousands of the top nursing and allied health journals including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.
PubMed
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You are conducting research in the medical sciences, biology, engineering, or other STEM fields. Powerful searching available with the MeSH index of subject headings, which is available in its most browsable form via PubMed. What's Included?Abstracting and indexing database for articles relating to health science, the allied health fields, and the biological and physical sciences. PubMed is a version of the database MEDLINE that has been made freely available by the National Library of Medicine, and which includes some additional content. Full text links provide access to George Fox-owned content and/or help you to place an Interlibrary Loan request.
UpToDate
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You are looking for current evidence-based information on medical topics, along with expert opinion to support your clinical decision making. UpToDate is our primary point-of-care resource at George Fox (along with Micromedex).Note: When accessing for the first time, all users must register an individual account. See LibGuide for detailed instructions.What's Included?Entries on over 12,400 topics, continuously updated and reviewed, covering internal medicine, pediatrics, patient education, drug information, etc. Graphics are included for most topics. Links to abstracts of supporting evidence are given, and evidence is ranked on a quality scale. Tools for calculating drug dosage and interactions are available.
Dynamic Health CDS + Skills
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You need to consult clinical decision support (CDS) information on a disease, drug, or nursing skill, or need to consult content from a nursing reference work.What's Included?Contains digestible summaries of diseases, skills, drugs, and other information useful to nurses. Contains content from reference works such as Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses. A mobile version of Dynamic Health is available for download from major app stores.
Cochrane Library
This link opens in a new windowArticles, books, research reports, and conference proceedings related to the effects of healthcare, the conduct of controlled trials, the cost and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures, and systematic reviews of healthcare around the world.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?MEDLINE via EBSCO searches the same body of literature as PubMed, but without ahead-of-print or in-process citations. Indexed with the MeSH subject headings. Unlikely you will need to search both MEDLINE and PubMed. Use if you prefer the EBSCO search interface.What's Included?Fully indexed and peer reviewed journal articles relating to health science, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences
Micromedex
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You need evidence based reference information on a medication, or need to calculate drug dosage. A recommended point-of-care resource (along with UpToDate).What's Included?Current information on drugs and medication. Tools for comparing drugs and calculating dosage. Includes RED BOOK for drug pricing and manufacturer information.
Google Scholar (Find it @ George Fox)
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You want to run an efficient, interdisciplinary search of academic literature across the web. Scholar integrates with other academic resources and citation tools.What's Included?Freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across a wide array of publishing formats and disciplines. This link includes the setting to connect search results to George Fox holdings (Find it @ George Fox links).Learn more in our Google Scholar guide. (https://libguides.georgefox.edu/GoogleScholar).
Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest)
This link opens in a new windowReliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, etc. Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 780 titles, with over 650 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations.
OVID Full Text Journals
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You are researching topics related to Medical Science, and prefer using the OVID search interface. Can combine your search with other OVID products, including MEDLINE via OVID. All journals here can be found with Library Search/Primo and our other databases.What's Included?Full text access to over 110 journals contained in OVID, covering nursing, medicine, physical therapy, and exercise science. Access to abstracts and index information for all other journals contained in OVID.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You are researching topics related to Nursing or Allied Health and need to supplement previous searches in CINAHL, PubMed/MEDLINE, and SPORTDIscusWhat's Included?Nearly 550 full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines
ScienceDirect
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You want to browse a particular journal or set of journals published by Elsevier. Search here if you need to supplement your previous searches in PubMed, Google Scholar, or the GFU library catalog (Primo).What's Included?Contains abstracts of journal articles and e-books published by Elsevier. All titles are accessible through a GFU library catalog search or interlibrary loan request.
PA Core Education
This link opens in a new windowWhy Search Here?You need to consult a textbook for a course (all of which can also be found by searching in Primo)What's Included?A collection of e-books covering topics in medical science. Also offers videos about patient assessments, case documents relating to ebook content, and images.