LibGuides: CAHM 120: Find Sources

Find Sources

Articles are written by different authors and for different readers:

Scholarly articles are written and reviewed by scholars and provide new research, analysis, or information about a specific topic. They are written for researchers like yourself. They are also sometimes called academic or peer-reviewed articles.
Magazine articles are written by professional writers for a general audience. These include magazines like National Geographic, Time, and People.
Newspaper articles are written by journalists for a general audience. Local papers, like the Santa Cruz Sentinel, focus on local issues and readers. They are generally short and are written quickly to focus on the latest news.

Find Journal Articles

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises more than 33 million 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.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic This link opens in a new window
Scholarly health periodicals
CINAHL PLUS with Full text This link opens in a new window
Nursing & allied health scholarly journals
Science Database This link opens in a new window
Science & STEM journals
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
Search across almost all of the library databases at the same time.

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Google Search tools include:

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Cancer.gov -- From the National Cancer Institute
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centros para la prevención y control de enfermedades
Drug Information Portal -- Quality drug information from the National Library of Medicine
Ethnomed -- Specific information on various cultures
State Health Facts -- Health data from the Kaiser Family Foundation
Google MT -- A search engine for Medical Transcription websites
Health & Wellness Center -- Links and information from Santa Cruz Public Library
Health on the Net -- Promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information. HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
Health Reports and Statistics -- From the Santa Cruz County Health Services
Medscape -- Health news and information
MEDLINEplus and MEDLINEplus en Español -- From the National Library of Medicine
Merck Manual -- The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Multi-Cultural Resources for Health Information -- Links and information from National Library of Medicine
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- From the National Institute of Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse -- Research on drug abuse from the National Institute of Health.
National Institutes of Health-- Health information and much more
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services