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Clinical Laboratory Science Pathfinder
by Sheila Oliveira, MLIS
Class: Clinical Laboratory Science; Medical Technology
Keywords: blood, blood banking, blood cells, blood transfusion, clinical chemistry, clinical laboratory science, clinical medicine, hematology, immunology, serology.
Madonna University Library
Madonna University Library Research Databases (Listed by Vendor, then by Title)
http://ww3.madonna.edu/library
A complete list and description of all databases is available. Searches are by keyword, author, or title for journal articles. Select databases are listed below.
CSA Illumina
Interfaces in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean languages. The articles are written in English.
Look for articles in these databases.
· Biological Sciences
Contains abstracts and citations in a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology, agriculture, veterinary science. Provides access to over 6,000 serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, and selected books.
· Biology Digest
Contains abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in Life Sciences. Provides access to over 20,000 records with original abstracts and key information such as conclusions drawn from respective research.
· MEDLINE
Contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Provides access to over 4 million citations, abstracts, and full-text articles of biomedical literature.
· ERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines.
· Toxline
Contains information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagen and teratogens. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature.
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First Search
Interfaces in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean
languages. The articles are written in English.
Look for articles in these databases.
· Article First
Contains abstracts, citations, and full text journal articles. Provides access to literature in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture from 1990 to present.
· CINAHL
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). Contains journals covering nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health, the American Nursing Association and the National League of Nursing publications. Full-text, graphics, and full-text linking to articles.
· Clase Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, conference proceedings, and more. Journals are published in 24 countries of Latin America. Index has full- text linking
· Ebooks
Electronic books (Ebooks). A collection of electronic books selected and purchased jointly by the Michigan Electronic Library (MeL) and participating academic libraries. Provides acess to over 20,000 electronic book titles some with full text articles.
· ECO
Electronic collections online (ECO). An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. Some full text and graphics and full text linking articles.
· ERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines.
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· GPO
U.S. Government publications, including congressional reports, hearings, and debates, judiciary materials, and documents from executive departments.
· MEDLINE
Contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Provides access to over 4 million citations, abstracts, and full-text articles of biomedical literature.
· Papers First
Papers presented at conferences world wide. A wide variety of subjects including sciences, medicines, biotechnology, social sciences, and humanities. Contains indexing and abstracts, full text, and full text linking to articles.
· Proceedings
Contains a wide variety of subjects discussed at worldwide conferences, congresses, exhibitions, meetings, and symposia from 1993 to present. Provides access to full text articles.
· PsycArticles
A database of full text articles of journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Higrefe and Huber.
· Wilson Select Plus
Contains information about science, social sciences, humanities, literature, and business. Journal articles from 1994 to present. Provides access to full text articles.
· World Almanac
Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Contains brief articles for finding facts, statistics, biographies, encyclopedia entries, cultural information, holiday, and astronomical information for both the United States and the World.
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· World Cat
A catalog of books, periodicals, and multimedia resources owned by libraries around the world. Updated daily. Also references electronic books and internet resources.
InfoTrac
Info Trac is composed of eighteen indexes to periodicals.
Look for articles in these databases.
· Expanded Academic ASAP
Contains articles on social sciences, arts, humanities, education, and science and technology in journals from 1980 to present. Provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers many with full text and images.
· General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy to use interface.
Contains articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full text and images.
· Health Reference Center-Academic
Contains articles on fitness, medicine, nutrition, public health, diseases, etc. The information contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
· Health and Wellness Resource Center
Contains articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, directories, definitions, and information on; fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
· InfoTrac OneFile
A one stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, health care, humanities, law science, technology and many other topics. Many full- text articles with images. Updated daily.
· Professional Collection
A collection of educational journals picked and selected for their relevance in the modern world for today's professional.
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Lexis Nexis Services
Academic searching in English. Provides full text documents from over 5,000 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications. Contains articles from national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information.
Topics: Business, news, medical journals, abstracts.
Look for articles in these databases.
· LexisNexis Academic
News, Business, Legal, Medical and Reference modules
· LexisNexis Congressional
Track legislation through Bills, Laws, and Regulations modules
Proquest
Multiple database searching in English.
Topics: Science, Medical Science, Interdisciplinary, and more.
Look for articles in these databases.
· ABI/Inform
Contains content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry specific topics. Provides access to full text and full text images.
· Proquest Religion
Covers the most important journals in the field. Full text, full image text, and graphics.
Resources for researching religious issues, and perspectives.
· Proquest Research Library
The Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas including business, education, literature, political science, psychology, science, and health. Formats in abstracts and index with full text, full text images, and graphics.
· Proquest Nursing Journals
Contains complete information from leading nursing and related publications from 2986 to present. Formats are in full text, full text image, and graphics.
· Proquest Agriculture Journals
Contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. Formats are in full text and full text graphics.
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· National Newspaper Abstracts (3)
Contains abstracts of news articles with a 45 day archive. The collection contains print editions.
Wilson Web
Composed of indexes to periodical articles: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological and Agricultural Index Plus, Education Full Text, and Social Science Full Text.
Look for articles in these databases.
· Applied Science & Technology
Indexes and abstract articles of trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Selected articles are full text.
· Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
A bibliographic data base the indexes English language periodicals. Includes abstracts and full- text coverage of a wide range of scientific journals that pertain to biology and agriculture.
· Education Full Text
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles form English language periodicals and year books. Abstracting coverage begins in January 1994; full text coverage begins in January 1996.
· Social Sciences Full Text
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles in the English language. Full text articles of selected periodicals from a wide range of social science journals.
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The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Look for articles in these databases.
· The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
A systematic review identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care and determines whether this intervention works. These articles contain all known references to trials on a particular intervention and a comprehensive summary of the available evidence.
· The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (CDMR)
The CDMR contains two types of document: Cochrane Methodology Reviews and Protocols. Methodology Reviews are full text systematic reviews or methodological studies. Protocols provide place markers for reviews and they summarize the background and the rationale of the review.
· The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
CENTRAL includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic database (MEDLINE and EMBASE) and other published and unpublished sources. No full text of the article is available.
· The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
A systematic review that identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determines whether or not this intervention works.
· The Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
This database contains information on healthcare technology assessments. The database contains details of on going projects and completed publications from health technology assessment organizations.
· The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
This database contains structured abstracts of articles describing economic evaluations of health care interventions. Records do not contain full text of the original article.
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Web Based Free Access Resources
These websites offer free electronic journal articles, e-books, images, national and international bilingual search engines, encyclopedias and dictionaries related to clinical laboratory science; medical technology.
Keywords: blood, blood banking, blood cells, blood transfusion, clinical chemistry, clinical laboratory science, clinical medicine, hematology, immunology, serology.
Association Publications
American Society For Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
Publishers of theClinical Laboratory Science Journal (Madonna University Library subscribes to this journal) which is an award winning quarterly Journal. The Journal is available by subscription and ASCLS membership. Features current topics in CLS and contains Full Text journal articles.
American Society For Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
Publishers of The American Journal of Clinical Pathology which is a monthly periodical containing original clinical laboratory journal articles. Features current topics in medical technology/clinical laboratory science. Only active members have complete access to all content and services.
Lab Medicine Today
ASCP also publishes the journal, Lab Medicine Today, which is a monthly periodical that publishes original articles on scientific, technical, managerial, and educational aspects of CLS/Medical Technology.
Atlases
Hematology Digital Images
http://medocs.ucdavis.edu/iMD/420A/dib/index.htm
Hematology images of cells from the University of California Davis School of Medicine.
Images include hemolytic anemias, normal peripheral blood smear, acute leukemia, bone marrow aspirate, and more.
Hematology Atlas Selections
http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/index.html
Selection of e-books from the University of South Alabama Biomedical Library including
hematology images. Features atlases, and select database from all areas of medical science. Many free materials.
Internet Atlas of Histology
http://.med.uiuc.edu/histo/small/atlas
Contains a comprehensive set of histology images frome the University of Illinois- Urbana. Images are indexed by topic and keyword search.
Features atlas, tutorial, sample quizzes, and demo.
Bloodline Image Atlas
Bloodcell images. This atlas features more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies. Images are indexed and categorized by keyword search.
Electronic Books
Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mplus/dictionary.html
Definitions of medical terms in English and Spanish. Type the word that you would like to find.
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Med Terms Medical Dictionary
http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary
Brief description of medical terms in English. Features a medical dictionary encyclopedia with keyword search and search links to related topics.
Encyclopedia
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.nlm.gov/medlineplus/ency/encyclopedia-G.htm
Health topics, definitions, drug information. Includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. Contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
Handbook
The Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
Index to searchable topics in 23 sections including: immunology, hematology, and
laboratory science. Features the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th edition. Keyword and subject searching.
Metasearch E-books
University of Southern Alabama
http://www.usouthal.edu/library/ebook.htm
All free e-books are listed for selection. Features materials from all areas of medical science; enter keyword in the search box.
Bookshelf Online Books
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books
Free e-books from U.S. Government agencies. Search from a list of available titles. Contains excerpts of book chapters with key word searching.
Peer reviewed E- journals
Select clinical laboratory science journal research articles from these
websites.
Blood
Free research articles includes abstracts and full-text. Contains many free samples of articles with some journal issues by subscription.
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Bloodline
Free full- text articles. Contains journal articles, case studies, book reviews, private lecture series, and images. Free registration.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of Open Access Journals contains free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Currently 407 journals have online articles and DOAJ is a comprehensive free access directory.
Hematology
http://www.asheducationbook.org
Select free full-text peer- reviewed articles. Journal articles include abstracts and full text
formats.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine Online
Free abstracts and full-text articles. Features articles in all areas of medical science and healthcare.
Search Engines
Locate peer-reviewed journals articles. Conduct a search by CLS keyword, author, or title of journal.
Google Scholar
Free journal abstracts. Keyword author, title searches of academic journal articles.
Scirus
Free full-text journal articles. Keyword, author, title searches of academic journal articles.
Elsevier
Free full-text journal articles. Keyword, author, title searches of academic journal articles..
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U.S. Government Databases
Government agency databases that have research journal articles and more.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review (MMWR) includes articles and graphics. Contains information about mortality and morbidity (death and disease) with full text articles..
National Institutes of Health
MEDLINE
Contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Provides access to over 4 million citations, abstracts, and full-text articles of biomedical literature.
National Library of Medicine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez
PubMED
Contains biomedical journal articles. Includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE. Includes links to full-text articles and other related resources.
PubMED Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Features advanced searching and journal list.
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International Resources
Websites feature foreign language interfaces with some full text translations. Majority of the articles are written in English and interfaced in other languages.
Keywords: blood, blood banking, blood cells, blood transfusion, clinical chemistry, clinical laboratory science, clinical medicine, hematology, immunology, serology.
Atlases
Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/chromcancer
Languages: English, French, German, and Spanish. Features images in powerpoint format and top and keyword search.
Nagoya Atlas of Hematology
http://pathy.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/atlas/doc/atlas
Hematology images from Negoya University Medical School in Japan. Available text is in English.
Dictionary
Translating Medical Dictionary
Medical terms and translations in over 50 languages. Type in a word in any language and select the translation language.
Lectures
Supercourse
Enter the term “Supercourse “ in the search box. Lectures in over 26 languages related to CLS ,health science, and more. Lectures are in powerpoint presentation format.
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Search Engines
Multilingual Search Engines
The Multilingual Search Engine Optimization and Submission site allows you to select the“Foreign Search Engine Directory”. Features a metasearch directory. Search by country: Arabic countries, Iran, United Arab Emerits, Egypt, Iraq, and more. Hispanic countries, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. Asian: India, Japan , China. European: Ireland, UK, France ,Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Norway, Greece Portugal, Poland. Acess to these countries internet is free. Articles are in original languages.
Nations Online
Groups international websites of government entities, search engines and more. Features a metasearch directory. Search by country and keyword.
Databases
Bioline International
http://www.bioline.org.br/journals International journals in their orginal languages. Features journals from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, Turkey, Uganda, and Venezuela.
Site is updated regularly. Some full text articles with keyword searching.
BMC International Health and Human Rights
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcinthealthhumrights
Original research articles in healthcare in developing and transitional countries, and all issues relating to health and human rights. Search by subject or keyword.
MeL International and Multicultural Health Resources
Michigan electronic library internet resources. International and Multicultural Resources.
Features international health resources from: Doctors Without Borders USA, EurasiaHealth, National Arab American Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, Pan American Health Organization, The World Health Organization, and others.
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International E-Journals
African Journal of Biomedical Research
Metasearch in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Locate journal by title and enter in the find journal box. Covers all research findings within the biomedical sciences and allied health fields. Full text articles in English. Free Access.
The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Articles are full text available in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Published bi-monthly and features serial and article browsing. Free Access.
Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
Contains full text articles in English. Published monthly with available issues from 2003 until present. Features index of all journals. Free Access.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
http://www.nih.go.jp/JJID/jjid.html
Free access to Japanese authored articles. Articles are written in English. Many full text articles available.
MetaSearch
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
Free access to peer reviewed medical journals. Index of full text medical journal articles. Journals available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.
Free E –Books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com
Free online version medical books. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.
International Government
World Health Organization
Contains health information from the U.S.A and countries throughout the world. Free access to articles, reports, charts and graphics.