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Electronic Databases
Subject Specific Database
CINAHL Plus with Full Text  (Available through Ebscohost)
The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982.  Links to many full text articles.
Medline  (Available through Ebscohost)
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. Coverage is from 1966 - present.  Links to many full text articles.

General or Related Databases
Academic Search Premier  (EBSCOhost)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,450 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

ACADEMIC UNIVERSE (Available through Lexis Nexis)
Multidisciplinary database with full text articles.  Sources in LEXIS‑ Nexis Academic include newspapers, general magazines and journals, medical information, news transcripts, federal and state legal codes and information, business information, corporate profiles, SEC documents, and country profiles.  Medical information includes full text articles from journals, and abstracts from MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database.  Dates of coverage vary according to title.

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Online Journals
There are many e-journals available through the databases above and from other sources.  Use the Full-Text Journal search tool to search for an individual e-journal title or see a general listing of Health Sciences e-journals at MC Library.

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Internet Resources
American Hospital Association
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (an agency of the Dept. of Health and Human Services)
AUPHA (Association of University Programs in Health Administration) Home Page   

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
WWW Sources on Health Administration/Policy
Toolbox for Health Managers & Administrators
Healthweb: Health Administration
National Institutes of Health
Health Statistics on the Web
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
Quality of Medical Care in the United States

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The following are selected reference resources for Health Science Administration:

• Encyclopedia of Health Care Management
  362.1068 En19 R  Reference Room

• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine – 5 volume set
  616.003 G131 R  Reference Room
• Merck Manual of Medical Information
  616.024 M537 R  Reference Room

• Careers in Healthcare Management
  353.6 H117c

• Health, United States
  362.1 H349u   (also Electronic Resource see MICAL)
• Healthcare Quality Book
  362.11 H349r