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Databases Available through KCKCC

CINAHL Plus
CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.

Alt HealthWatch (Ebsco)
Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.
BioMed Central
Peer-reviewed publications in biomedical research.
CBCA Complete: Health & Medicine (ProQuest)
This database focuses on health and medical periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)
Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and to provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information.
Gale Interactive Human Anatomy
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Health and Medicine
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to over 80 full-text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 9,900 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
MedicLatina (EBSCO)
MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains the complete table of contents and PDF full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology.
Medline (EBSCO)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE7, AIDSLINE7, BIOETHICSLINE7, and HealthSTAR7.
Medline Plus Health Information
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions and also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials and latest health news.
ProQuest Biology Journals (ProQuest)
The database includes over 370 titles, with more than 325 available in full text. ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.
ProQuest Health & Medical Complete (ProQuest)
The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Journals (ProQuest)
Search full-text journals and dissertations in ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source alongside Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the renowned Joanna Briggs Institute.
Research Library: Health & Medicine (ProQuest)
This resource covers publications on the latest medical information for researchers of all levels.
Science (Gale)
Researching science topics has never been easier thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments.

Respiratory Care
RESPIRATORY CARE is the official monthly science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care.
Health Reference Center
Health Reference Center includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors.

eBook Central (ProQuest)
Over 54,000 electronic books on all subject matter specifically designed for community college collections.
EBSCO
A multidisciplinary research database designed specifically for academic institutions. Provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications, as well as magazines and other resources. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for more than 130 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Jstor
A digital library for scholars, researchers and students. It provides access to more than 10 million scholarly academic journal articles, open-access books and primary sources in 75 disciplines. We have subscribed to the Arts and Humanities One collection.
Learning Express
This database has a wide range of subject matter across a variety of fields, including practice tests for several major standard tests.
ProQuest
Brings together ProQuest’s most popular databases into one broad, multidisciplinary resource that supports research across all major subject areas for both academic and general needs. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, market reports and more, including 2,300 full-text news sources from all over the world.
ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.

MayoClinic Youtube Channel
Watch videos created by the Mayo Clinic on a variety of medical and health topics.
MedlinePlus Videos
Videos that teach the basics of human anatomy and surgical procedures, plus interactive tutorials on diseases, conditions, tests, and procedures with contain animated graphics.

Films on Demand
Films On Demand is a comprehensive, curriculum-focused video subscription providing unlimited access to thousands of videos in 30+ subjects, including the humanities, science, business, literature, health, and more.

Docuseek II
The Essential Collection of documentaries and social issue films has over 800 titles for higher education across a wide variety of disciplines. These outstanding films are from leading producers, distributors and independent producers from around the world, with over half of these produced by Bullfrog Films. Others include Icarus Films, National Film Board of Canada, the BBC, and Terra Nova. Clips and playlists can be created and shared, and films can be embedded. Most titles have closed captioning or subtitles.
NOVA
NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television. Search or browse topics.
Science Cinema
Contains multimedia videos highlighting the U.S. Department of Energy's scientific research.
TED Talks
TED is a nonprofit dovoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Browse by topic, date, popularity and more to view videos.

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