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EBSCO Databases
Academic Search Complet

Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.  

CINAHL Complete 

This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. With CINAHL Complete, users get fast and easy full-text access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and more. It provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more. 

Content Includes:

  • Full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL Database 
  • Indexing for nearly 5,500 journals 
  • Searchable cited references for more than 1,500 journals 
  • Full text dating back to 1937 
  • More than 5.8 million records 
  • Author affiliations 

eBook Nursing Collection

Designed for use in hospitals, medical institutions and academic institutions with nursing or allied health programs, this subscription collection features more than 540 hand-selected, quality e-books that focus on the needs of nursing professionals, including clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks and professional growth titles. All titles are available with unlimited user access, and titles are regularly added to the collection at no additional cost.  

Notable Titles Include: 

  • Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice  
  • Person- and Family-centered Care 
  • B Is for Balance: 12 Steps Toward a More Balanced Life at Home and at Work  
  • Differential Diagnosis for the Advanced Practice Nurse 
  • Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life 

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

EBSCO’s eBook Collection contains full text books, such as reference works, scientific monographs, literature and fiction. This eBook Collection contains more than 3,460 titles that are freely accessible and a small number of purchased titles. 

Specialized EBSCO Databases provided by the GC Seventh-Day Adventist Church 

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic   

Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE. 

Health Business Elite  

Health Business Elite provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management. Topics covered include hospital management, hospital administration, marketing, human resources, computer technology, facilities management and insurance. Health Business Elite contains full text content for more than 570 journals such as H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Harvard Business Review (available back to 1922), Health Facilities Management, Health Management Technology, Healthcare Financial Management, Marketing Health Services, Modern Healthcare, and many more. 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals. 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text    

CINAHL Plus® with Full Text is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the core research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. Full text coverage dates back to 1937. 

MEDLINE with Full Text   

MEDLINE with Full Text provides the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, nearly 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. And of those, 558 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection 

ProQuest Databases 

ABI/INFORM Global

Connects business researchers to scholarly information they need. ABI/INFORM Global is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market which includes in-depth coverage for over 3,730 publications, with more than 2,670 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape. Also, researchers have access to thousands of dissertations, working papers, reports, news sources, and much more. 

Coronavirus Research Database‎ 

The Coronavirus Research Database brings together trusted content from journals, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. This database brings together not only content from open-access journals, but also pre-prints and additional content being made freely available by major publishers from around the world. This versatile content set is designed to help students, researchers, and health care professionals investigate answers to pressing questions arising in the wake of the pandemic. The database will continue to grow as more is learned and new content is published. 

Additionally, there are preprints from servers such as BioaRxiv and arXiv, news and reports from providers like Cortellis (BioWorld), and select book chapters from Taylor & Francis, InTech Open, and others. 

Publicly Available Content Database‎ 

Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available content from a number of different sources from around the world. Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports. 

Religion Database‎ (1986 – current) 

Religion Database provides a wide range of primarily full-text periodicals and other sources for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many worldwide religions. As well as scholarly journals there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.