BIOL 340: Research Methods

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. Also includes a medical dictionary.

MEDLINE covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing, and includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts. Open an entry and select "Find it @ VCSU" to see if we have an item in our collections.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a subset of full-text articles included in the PubMed index. PubMed Central is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. ERIC contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, policy papers and more. In addition, it provides an education-specific thesaurus that includes controlled vocabulary.

From the US Environmental Protection Agency, the ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology) database provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life. ECOTOX is a useful tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment.

DOAJ covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ contains thousands of open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.