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*START HERE: Databases
for Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog
for Finding Books
Related
Web Sites
Magazine & Journal
Databases (to access articles):
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Access to nearly 550 scholarly
full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines; also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300
generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Health
Source - Consumer Edition: Information on many health
topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare,
sports medicine and general health, provides access to nearly 80 full text,
consumer health magazines.
Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center: an excellent database that is available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card:
- To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, check the "articles with text" box next to "Limit the current search" (below the text entry box)
- To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.
- PLEASE NOTE: When search
results are first displayed, only reference articles are usually shown.
Click on the "Magazines & Journals" tab to display all magazine and journal articles on your topic. - Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings under: See Also: at the upper left of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
PubMed Central: Archive of full-text
biomedical and life sciences journal articles, from the National Institute of Health’s
National Library of Medicine
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How to use the PubMed
Central database
PubMed: The Medline
database-- the most extensive medical journal database available, including abstracts (i.e. summaries
- limited access to full-text articles) of medical journal articles from
1966 to the present. Links from abstracts to the full text articles are now
available for a limited number of journals. * Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
* How to use the PubMed
database
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: Search and access the full text of articles from July 1997 to the present and abstracts only from January 1994 to June 1997. * Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
RT Magazine: The Journal for Respiratory Care Practitioners: Search and access the full text of articles from April/May 1998 to the present. * Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care
Practitioners:
news, clinical developments, education trends, employment options
* Freely
accessible from the World Wide Web
Respiratory Research: Open access, peer-reviewed, online journal
covering all aspects of respiratory function and disease
HighWire Press Science Journals: HighWire Press is an online
journal publisher and database of over 200 academic science journals. Many of
the journals available through HighWire provide free
access to the full text of some of their articles--either back issues before a
specific date or all articles for a limited trial period. Click here to see list of free
full-text journals from HighWire, including: American Journal of
Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, American
Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, European Respiratory Journal and European Respiratory Review
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
* How to use the HighWire journals database
Free Medical Journals.com: Links to Web sites of several hundred medical journals providing some free full-text articles-- usually either back issues before a specific date or all articles for a limited period. * Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
Respiratory Care Print Journals Available at Skyline Library:
(current
issues available in Periodicals Reading Area; back issues available from the
Check-Out Desk)
Chest
(also available in the
Health and Wellness Resource Center
database)
Heart & Lung
Respiratory Care (also available in the Health and Wellness Resource Center database)
The PLS Online
Catalog
is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in
the Peninsula Library System (PLS).
To search
for books and other materials in all PLS
libraries:
-- Type search words (keep your search words broad) in the first search box
& click Submit.
To search for books only
in
-- Type search words (keep your search words broad) in the first search box.
-- Scroll down to the Location selection box (under Limit
to: below the search boxes),
-- Select Skyline College in
the Location box,
-- Then click the Submit button.
Skyline Respiratory Therapy Program
American Association for Respiratory Care
California Society for Respiratory Care
Respiratory Care Board of California
National Board for Respiratory Care
Occupational Outlook Handbook for Respiratory Therapists: includes nature of work, job outlook, earnings, more
MEDLINEplus Health Information: Respiratory Diseases
GALEN II - UCSF Digital Library
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