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Health Sciences Search (EBSCOhost)
Simultaneously search CINAHL Ultimate, MEDLINE, Consumer Health Complete, Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, eBook Clinical Collection, OVID journals, and more.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source
Search academic and professional publications on dentistry including dental public health,, odontology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics.
Nursing Reference Center Plus
Essential info including evidence-based care sheets, nursing best practices and CEUs, Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications; Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, videos, patient education sheets, and more. Get the Nursing Reference Center app
UpToDate
Clinical decision support for allied health and nursing, providing best practices, patient information, drug information, and clinical calculators. Create a log in to be used when downloading the mobile app (available for Android and iOS).
American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine (Open Access, Available after 1 year)
A biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Thoracic Society, covering respiratory pathophysiology, diseases, and treatments.
American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT)
Access to OTA’s top research journal, the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, now available through EBSCO’s CINAHL Ultimate.
CINAHL Ultimate
The largest source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 940 journals indexed in CINAHL.
Films on Demand: Allied Health
Streaming video collection includes introductions and demonstrations to medical terminology and technology, anatomy, patient care, medication & pharmacology, and health care professionalism.
MEDLINE
Search peer-reviewed medical journals, medical guidelines and more on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Rehabilitation Reference Center
Search and browse evidence-based information on diseases and drugs, patient education sheets, exercise images and research instruments.
ScienceDirect
Search peer-reviewed health and life sciences journals and book chapters published from 1999 to present.
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You should see the welcome screen and a link to launch the VB suite (Visible Body Suite).
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