Los Angeles Valley College Library: Nursing Resources at the LAVC Library: More Library Databases

More Ways to Search...

Occasionally, in order to find the information you need, your research may require you to utilize even more Library databases than the ones already discussed in this guide. Our recommendations are listed below.

Heads up: If you are using the Library website from off-campus, you will eventually be required to "log in." When that time comes, please follow these directions for logging into the Library website from off-campus.

Science & Nursing Databases

Nursing & Allied Health Collection This link opens in a new window
Articles aimed at nursing students, physician’s assistant students, and researchers in allied health fields. Coverage includes specialized care, treatment and patient management.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Information on many health topics 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.
Medline This link opens in a new window
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Consumer Health (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Includes journals and magazines covering a broad range of health subjects such as sports injuries, women's health, eye care, dentistry, midwifery, food and nutrition, and more.
Health & Medical Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration, and more.
Healthcare Administration Database (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Academic articles covering a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration
Public Health Database (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Collection of public health resources including scholarly journals, dissertations, videos, news, trade publications, reports, and more, Covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences to business.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals across a wide spectrum of subject areas including the physical sciences, engineering, life and health sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.

General/Multi-subject Databases

OneSearch This link opens in a new window
OneSearch (AKA "the big search bar at the top of the Library homepage") not only searches our entire collection of print books, it also searches over 20 of our article/ebook databases simultaneously and combines the results for you. When you aren't sure about which individual database to start your research in, OneSearch is your best bet. For detailed instructions on how to use OneSearch, please refer to our "Find Articles Guide" linked below.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive periodical resource, which brings together complete databases across major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Our largest multi-disciplinary database, providing full-text for more than 9,000 journals, including nearly 8,000 peer-reviewed titles. Magazine and newspaper articles are also included.
JSTOR Archival Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles across many disciplines, including access to the "Life Sciences Collection," a large body of biomedical content. Please note this archive does not include current issues -- a three to five year delay is typical for most publications.

Additional Help - Research Guides

The following research guides, created by librarians at LAVC, provide detailed instructions for finding articles and ebooks on our website. While the guides focus on using OneSearch (linked above), other useful databases are also discussed and explored throughout.