Subject Guides
Health and Wellness
HS & ES Librarian
Welcome to the Health and Wellness Guide Library Guide! This home page has information about resources and databases, new books, and linking Google Scholar to Binghamton University resources. Use the tabs on the left (above if on mobile) to navigate the site for a variety of information including my contact information.
I also invite you to explore the healthcare page of our Anti-Racism Research and Resource Guide.
Selected Databases for Health and Wellness
Below are selected databases that are useful for Health and Wellness related information. This guide is an abbreviated version of the Nursing Library Guide which you may also want to look at.
Need a general reference resource? Try AccessScience or a places-to-start databases!
- CINAHL Ultimate Extensive coverage of nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health. Full text of the most influential journals in nursing. Covers publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.Includes health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts and educational software.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Provides the full text of over 580 scholarly journals across a variety of medical disciplines, with a strong focus on nursing and allied health.
- MEDLINE Authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
- Nursing and Allied Health OneFile
Academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.
- PubMed From the National Library of Medicine. Includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- Dynamed Clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,400 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience. DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians, residents, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals for use at the point of care.
- Natural Medicines The most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
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- Alt-HealthWatch Literature that focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection Academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
- TRIP database Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) to request items not available online.
- AccessMedicine Access to 65+ medical books, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools. All across one search platform.
New Books!
Below are the print books purchased in the last year and the e-books purchased in the last 4 months that focus on various aspects of health and wellness including nutrition. We have MANY other books coming in on various health and medical topics, including stress relief and physical education. Check out the Books tab on this guides for information on how to search for books.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar promotes itself as a resource that provides one-stop shopping for scholarly literature. It searches across many disciplines and covers a wide variety of resources, including journal articles, theses, books, abstracts, and more. Although Google Scholar is aimed at the academic community, it uses a very broad definition of "scholarly literature." Remember that the content isn't free or necessarily available in full-text. It is important to realize that not everything, or even most, in Google Scholar is peer reviewed.
If you find an article you like that has a pay wall, don't pay - see if the library has it or request it through ILL. You can customize Google Scholar to display the Get It! link so you can get access to some articles through the library.
The Get It! link will automatically occur in Google Scholar searches done on campus. For off campus users:
1. Go to Google Scholar at http://scholar.google.com.
2. Before doing a search go into Settings. This is usually under the three bars in the upper left, but may be at the top of the page or elsewhere. Look for the gear symbol.
3. Type "Binghamton University" in the the "Library Links" box and select "Binghamton Universit - Get It!."
4. Click Save.
5. The Get It! link will now appear each time you search Google Scholar. (If you are off campus, you will need to log in once you click the Get It! link to get access.)
