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Spring 2024 (Begins Wed, Jan. 31)

Monday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Tuesday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Wednesday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Thursday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Friday: 7:30 am-5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sunday: 12:00 pm-12:00 am

Last Week of Classes/Commencement (May 8-May 19)

Wed, May 8: 7:30 am-1:00 am
Thu, May 9: 7:30 am-1:00 am
Fri, May 10: 7:30 am-10:00 pm
Sat, May 11: 9:00 am-10:00 pm
Sun, May 12: 12:00 pm-1:00 am
Mon, May 13: 7:30 am-1:00 am
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Wed, May 15: 7:30 am-6:00 pm
Thu, May 16: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Fri, May 17: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Sat, May 18: CLOSED
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General Databases

Academic Onefile
Searches many peer reviewed full text journal articles in multiple disciplines.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts over 18,000 journals in science and technology, psychology, religion and philosophy, etc. Over 4,800 journals are peer-reviewed and full text.

Video

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is a multidisciplinary collection containing over 137,000 full academic videos, plus videos from A&E, CBS, CNN, PBS, and more..

Videos and Tools - MedlinePlus
Watch health videos on topics such as anatomy and body systems, surgical procedures and health news.
American Heart Association's Visualizer
Watch, Learn and Live with the American Heart Association's interactive cardiovascular library.

Here you'll find informative illustrations and animations about a variety of conditions, treatments and procedures related to heart disease and stroke.

Library Catalog - Find books, journal articles, videos, and more

Library Catalog

Find books, journal articles, videos, and more.

Subject Journal Databases

Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Focuses on resources from the perspectives of alternative, holistic, complementary and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Applied Nursing Research This link opens in a new window
Applied Nursing Research presents original, peer-reviewed research findings clearly and directly for clinical applications in all nursing specialties. Regular features include "Ask the Experts," research briefs, clinical methods, book reviews, news and announcements, and an editorial section. Applied Nursing Research covers such areas as pain management, patient education, discharge planning, nursing diagnosis, job stress in nursing, nursing influence on length of hospital stay, and nurse/physician collaboration. The Journal is listed in PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL and the Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides access to over 3,000 journals with full text for over 700 of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database, many of which contain no embargo.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 800 full-text journals covering nursing and allied health.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library providing access to books, primary sources, and archival and current issues of over 2,000 scholarly journals across from over 50 academic disciplines. View this tutorial:
Lancet This link opens in a new window
The Lancet is an independent, international weekly general medical journal founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley. Since its first issue (October 5, 1823), the journal has strived to make science widely available so that medicine can serve, and transform society, and positively impact the lives of people. The Lancet is committed to applying scientific knowledge to improve health and advance human progress.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
World's largest biomedical database containing over 19 million references to journal articles in all areas of medicine and related disciplines from 1946 to present.
Medline (Ovid platform) 1946- This link opens in a new window
(Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for nurses and other medical professionals.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Full-text database containing more than 178,000 peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from over 100 journals covering psychology-related subjects.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Abstracting database of over 3.5 million citations in the behavioral science and mental health fields from the 1800s to the present.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
An integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings.

Data

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
Downloadable public-use data sets from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research that can be used with SPSS or Excel for statistical analysis. You can create an account from on-campus using your carthage.edu e-mail as the contact info.

NIH Data Tools
The National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information, as well as tools and datasets.

Books

Research Tools

Electronic Resources

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder is not an article database, it is a portal to journal availability within the library database and serials collections.

Youtube Tutorials for Nursing

Point of Care Tools

Merck Manuals
The Manuals, known as the Merck Manuals in the United States and Canada and MSD Manuals outside the United States and Canada, are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. The Manuals have committed to making the best current medical information accessible by up to 3 billion health care professionals and patients on every continent by 2020.
The Manuals, known as the Merck Manuals in the United States and Canada and MSD Manuals outside the United States and Canada, are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. The Manuals have committed to making the best current medical information accessible by up to 3 billion health care professionals and patients on every continent by 2020.