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Need research help and not sure where to turn? Get help from the library via email, chat, and online appointments or stop by one of our reference desks during open hours of operation.
Want to contact your Nursing & Health Sciences Librarian or set up a virtual or F2F appointment with her? Email Debra Smith: smithkak@cod.edu
Search for Articles & E-Resources
Use the Library's subscription databases to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Looking for a particular journal or magazine? Use our journal locator.
Recommended Databases
Databases include full-text articles from health and medical journals and magazines, full-text entries from numerous reference books, health-related pamphlets, and videos
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete contains indexing and full text for 9100 journals. 7100 of these journals are peer-reviewed scholarly titles. This collection provides both popular and scholarly journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. Academic Search Complete is a great resource for general research.
- CareNotes from MicromedexCareNotes' patient education documents provide easy-to-understand information about all aspects of care and health. Presented in English, the System's concise, customizable materials address patient condition, treatment, laboratory tests, follow-up care, psychosocial issues, continuing health, and the most frequently administered drugs.
- Consumer Health DatabaseProQuest Consumer Health Database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
- Health Source: Consumer EditionThis database of consumer health information covers a variety of subjects, including information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics. Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more. Content includes full-text consumer health magazines, reference books, and health pamphlets.
- Journal of the American Medical Association OnlineJAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, is an internationally peer-reviewed journal and is the most widely-circulated medical journal in the world.
College of DuPage Students, Faculty, and Staff have access to JAMA and JAMA Network Open Access Publications only. - MedlinePlus Consumer HealthMEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
- New England Journal of MedicineThe New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research and review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.
- PubMed - National Library of MedicineProvides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related sources
- Salem Press: Health & PsychologyThis small collection contains online reference books published by the Salem Press on health and psychology topics.
View all of the COD Library's Health & Medicine Databases
Requesting Articles
If you find a citation for an article that you'd like, but no full-text is available (or you're being asked to pay for the article)...
Follow the steps below:
- Start by searching the journal name (NOT the article title) Journal Locator.
- If the result indicates that the journal is available in a COD database, click on the database link and search by article title.
- If there are no relevant results, go to InterLibrary Loan forms.
- Fill out the Article form. In about 3-5 business days, an electronic copy of the article will be delivered to your email.