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Health Science

A subject guide for research in Health Science.

Finding Articles

Articles from scholarly journals are excellent tools to build your research on a topic. Use a subject-specific database to find articles spanning across a wide variety of journals, or if you have a specific journal in mind, you can go directly to that journal and select articles from there.  Take a look at our recommended databases and journals below!

Databases

AAAS Science

AAAS publishes four respected peer-reviewed journals. Science, the premier global science weekly; Science Signaling, the leading journal of cell signaling and regulatory biology; Science Translational Medicine, integrating medicine, engineering and science to promote human health; and, Science Advances, an innovative and high-quality open access journal for all the sciences.

Career & Technical Education Database

Vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

Consumer Health Database

Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics, such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry.

Health & Medical Collection

Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.

Healthcare Administration Database

Research supporting professional healthcare management and healthcare administration.

MedlinePlus (Español)

MedlinePlus le brinda información sobre enfermedades, condiciones y bienestar en un lenguaje fácil de leer.

MedlinePlus

Common diseases and conditions, health promotion and wellness, drugs info, medical dictionaries and more.

MedlinePlus Drugs, Herbs, & Supplements

Guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs, and supplements.

NC Health Info (Español)

NC Health Info tiene por objetivo ayudarlo a tomar decisiones informadas sobre atención médica. Aquí encontrar información confiable y fácil de comprender sobre diversos temas, incluidas afecciones, dónde encontrar opciones de tratamientos sin costo o de bajo costo y directorios de proveedores y servicios en Carolina del Norte.

NC Health Info

Online guide to quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.

Nursing & Allied Health Database

Journals and dissertations covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.

Omnigraphics Health Reference Sourcebooks

Quality reference publications covering biography, history, health, culture, finance, and more.

Public Health Database

This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.

PubMed

Comprehensive resource containing citations (not full articles) to biomedical articles and life science journals.

Visible Body

Explore the human body in great detail, in 3D, and in full color. Before using this resource, please take note of the system requirements at https://support.visiblebody.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003147294-System-Requirements

Can't find the full-text?

If you're having trouble finding the full text of an article, Jones Library can make a request for the article to be emailed to you (for free!) through interlibrary loan (ILL).  Follow the steps in this guide to submit an ILL request.