Research Guides: Allied Health Websites: SCC Databases

SCC Databases

Why use the SCC databases?

All of the electronic databases are purchased by the libraries in the Los Rios Community College District for use by our students. They are free for your use and you can access them from home. The databases collect articles from thousands of magazines, newspapers and journals. You will have access to the whole article (full text) when you find it in our databases. It is always a good idea to look in the databases first!

Medical Databases

Be sure to click on the link or go through the SCC Library Website to access these databases.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, providing full text for more than 640 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
This database contains a collection of consumer health information, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
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.
Ovid Nursing and Health Professions Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals in nursing and allied health fields.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Using the special link on this page, you can limit your search results to those that are held in library databases or available for free elsewhere.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals in the health sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and life sciences.
Salem Press This link opens in a new window
Ebooks and background information in career development, history, health, science, and literature.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Through ScienceDirect you may access ebooks, reference works, handbooks, book series, and over 2,000 journal titles for the social and behavioral sciences, health and life sciences, and physical sciences.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals in the social sciences, life sciences, computer science, business, communication, and other fields.

Search strategies

These are just a few tips to help you in your search:

Leave out minor words such as with, during, the, etc.
If the disease you are looking for is a phrase, it's best to search it with quotes around it, such as "deep vein thrombosis." This tells the database to search for those words together in that specific order.
In most databases, if you type the beginning of a word and then type an asterisk (*), the database will match any word that begins with those letters. For instance: nurs* matches nurse, nursing, nurses...