Online Resources on Health and Medicine
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This rich collection of consumer health resources provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets. Subjects Include:
- Fitness
- Nutrition
- Diabetes
- Aging
- Women’s health
- Children’s health
Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health nursing, nursing management, medical law, and more.
It provides nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, and medical educators with access to scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It includes indexing, abstracts, and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
Magill’s Medical Guide is the perfect mix of accessibility and depth, providing general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers.
The link will take you to Salem Press. Sign in with your library card and navigate to Magill’s Medical Guide on the home page under “Health”.
MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish. The site brings together information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other U.S. government agencies, and health-related organizations.
PressReader contains current and back issues of thousands of domestic and international newspapers and magazines, including The South China Morning Post, Harper’s Bazaar, The Economist, and The New York Times. Many of the publications are in languages other than English and all the current issues are available on PressReader as soon as they are available anywhere else. In addition, PressReader can translate between dozens of languages including English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.
At the library, simply connect your device to library wifi and launch the PressReader app or visit the PressReader web site (linked above).
At home, select “Sign In” on the PressReader App or at the pressreader.com web site, select “Library or Group,” and search for “Plainsboro”. Sign in using your library card. PressReader is available on iOS through the Apple AppStore and on Android through Google Play.
