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Use Databases to Find Professional and Scholarly Journal Articles

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When you need to find articles for college and career research projects, be sure to take advantage of quality article databases. With databases, you can search thousands of publications all at once, and then efficiently focus your search by topic, date, full text availability, and resource type (e.g., scholarly journals -versus- magazines or professional trade publications).

Current Mesa students and staff have 24/7 online access (both on and off-campus) to the databases highlighted below. Just enter your college ID# and last name when prompted.

Top Databases for H.I.M. Research:

CINAHL Complete -- Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
An essential research database offering comprehensive journal literature coverage for the nursing and allied health disciplines. The CINAHL Complete platform is an excellent place to begin when you are searching for articles on HIM-related topics. It provides full-text article content from thousands of journals--including leading titles for the HIM field, such as: Journal of AHIMA, Health Information Management Journal, and Healthcare Informatics. (Provider: EBSCO)
MEDLINE
The premier database for searching biomedical literature. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE provides access to articles from key journals in the fields of medicine, healthcare administration, allied health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary science, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)

Other Specialized Databases to Explore:

Business Source Complete
A specialized research tool that provides access to article content from standout business journals and trade publications covering topics such as finance, management, business technology, insurance, auditing, accounting, human resources, industry news, etc. This database can be helpful for researching business topics related to HIM. (Provider: EBSCO)

Gale Health and Wellness
Consumer health resource, provides accurate, authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices. Designed for researchers at all levels.(Provider: Gale)
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Health Reference Center Academic is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. (Provider: Gale)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition + Consumer Edition
Database of scholarly and professional health care journals, plus general-interest health magazines. Professional journals are applicable to allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators. Content covers many medical disciplines including nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, rehabilitation medicine, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)
This database link combines both Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition and Health Source Consumer Edition.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
With a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in CINAHL and over 10 million articles, this collection's current and authoritative content will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum: nursing students, physicians assistant students, and researchers in allied health fields who are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment, and management of all sorts of patients. (Provider: Gale)

PsycARTICLES
Database of articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association. (Provider: EBSCO)
PubMed MEDLINE Interface
The National Library of Medicine's public interface to the Medline database. Use the "free full text" limit to link out to full-text content that is available at no cost through the open access PubMed Central (PMC) journal archive and other publisher websites. (Provider: National Library of Medicine)
SocINDEX
An excellent database for accessing sociology and social work-related journal articles. Provides broad coverage of social issue topics. (Provider: EBSCO)

Databases for Consumer-Oriented News Coverage:

OneSearch

OneSearch allows you to search across many databases at one time. Please note that OneSearch only reaches about 75% of our databases at once, but it is a great place to start!

Try entering a search into the OneSearch box below to give it a try.

Finding Specific Full Text Journals

Are you looking a particular magazine, journal or newspaper?

Check here and see if we have access: OneSearch Journal Finder.

What if the full text is not available at Mesa? Here's another tip ...

For health sciences-related literature searches especially, if the full text of a particular medical journal of interest is not available in the Mesa College Library collection and/or database offerings, another key community resource you will want to be aware of is the Biomedical Library at the UC San Diego campus.

Members of the public can visit the UCSD Biomedical Library in person, and then browse/search/utilize -- on site as a campus visitor -- their extensive collection of online and print medical research journals (one of the largest collections in our state and beyond, given that UCSD's Biomedical Library supports the UCSD School of Medicine).

To check the journal holdings of the UCSD Libraries (including the Biomedical Library), search the UCSD Libraries Catalog.

See also the UCSD campus website and library web pages for hours and parking information. The weekend is often a good time to visit the Biomedical Library (as a campus visitor), since free parking is available on Saturdays and Sundays.

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