Biomedical And Health

  • Agricola (not restricted to NU only) (Open Access)
  • Alt-HealthWatch (Current NU Only)
    Offers full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on omplementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
  • Annual Reviews
    View a list of all reviews available at NU.
  • BIOSIS (1969- present) (Current NU Only)
    Note: Supported browsers: MS Internet Explorer 6.0+,, Netscape Navigator 7.0+, or Firefox 1.0+. Safari is not supported.
    Comprehensive database of articles in Biology [More Info]
  • BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts) (2005 - present) (Current NU Only)
    Note: Supported browsers: MS Internet Explorer 6.0+, Netscape Navigator 7.0+, or Mozilla Firefox 1.0+. Safari is not supported.
    Comprehensive index to articles in Biology. [More Info]
  • Blackwell (Current NU Only)
    Selected titles available, now part of Wiley Interscience.
  • Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line (Current NU plus alumni)
    Note: Terms and Conditions
  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Full-Text (Current NU Only)
    The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index from 1982 to the most current issues. [More Info]
  • Cochrane Library (Current NU Only)
    The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Full text.
  • Communications and Mass Media Complete (Current NU Only)
    For research in areas related to communication and mass media. Significant full text is available. [More Info]
  • HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) (Current NU Only)
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  • Health Reference Center (Current NU Only)
    Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
  • Health Source - Consumer Edition (Current NU Only)
    Note: This site is experiencing difficulties. (1/24/08)
    [More Info]
  • International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (Current NU Only)
    Note: Provided courtesy of the NU Department of Pharmacy Practice
    A comprehensive index to worldwide pharmaceutical literature, with abstracts from over 750 health journals, major pharmacy meetings, and all U.S. state pharmacy journals. Covers biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, and legal, political, and ethical issues.
  • LexisNexis Academic (Current NU Only)
    Up-to-date business and legal information is the strength of the LexisNexis Academic service. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text. [More Info]
  • Medline (Ebscohost) (Current NU Only)
    Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, and the equivalent of PubMed. This Ebscohost version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with CINAHL and PsycInfo. [More Info]
  • Medline (Web of Science) (Current NU Only)
    Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, and the equivalent of PubMed. This version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with Web of Science.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook (Current NU Only)
    Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Allows for evaluation of test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This online service covers from Volume 9 to the present.
  • Metapress (Current NU Only)
    Note: Selected articles from Frank Cass, Taylor & Francis and Routledge publishers
  • NU Journals @ Ovid (Browse the A-Z list) (Current NU Only)
    Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
  • NU Journals @ Ovid (Search for articles) (Current NU Only)
    Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
  • Oxford University Press Journals Online (Current NU Only)
    Note: Selected titles only
  • PsycArticles (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
    Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Includes over 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Current NU Only)
    A select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.
  • PsycINFO (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
    The American Psychological Association's flagship database of 2.4 million articles, books and other international documents in psychology going back over a century. 98% peer-reviewed! [More Info]
  • PubMed (Open Access)
  • Sage Journals Online (Current NU Only)
    Note: Selected Titles only.
  • ScienceDirect (Current NU Only)
    Selected journal titles from the scholarly publisher Elsevier and its affiliates.
  • SciFinder Scholar (Available in Snell Library)
    Note: See Use Restrictions
    Provides searching of Chemical Abstracts, 1907 - present [More Info]
  • Scirus.com (Current NU Only)
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  • Sociological Abstracts (Current NU Only)
    Note: Off-campus? Access the Sociological Abstracts here, (QuikBib citation formatting is not available off-campus)
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  • Springer LINK online journals (Current NU Only)
    Note: Selected titles only
  • Wiley Interscience (Current NU Only)
    Note: Not available during the weekend of June 28-29 due to publisher upgrades.
    Terms and Conditions