Databases by Subject > Life Sciences and Health
Databases marked with the MeL logo 
are provided to Lawrence Tech
by the Michigan Electronic Library, funded by a statewide sharing initiative
A-to-Z LISTINGS OF FULL-TEXT PERIODICALS ONLINE
Links to the electronic periodicals included with LTU’s subscriptions
ARTICLE FIRST (1990-present)
Covers wide range of topics.
ASTA (Applied Science and Technology Abstracts) (1983-present)
Science, engineering, technology
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL INDEX (1984-present)
Ecology, biology, forestry, and agriculture
CCH HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Covers personnel, OSHA, payroll, health care, pensions, and related laws
CINAHL (1982- )
Nursing and Health Sciences, some full-text
GALE GROUP all databases (all databases at once)
(formerly Infotrac) Search all at once, or just select several to search
Includes New York Times full-text since 1995
GENERAL SCIENCE ABSTRACTS (1984-present)
Citations to general and environmental topics
HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER (1980-present)
Practical health information, includes Alternative Health
HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER ACADEMIC (1980-present)
Similar to above but with more scholarly resources
IEEE XPLORE (1998-present)
100+ online journals including Computer Society journals (not the proceedings, however) on a broad range of topics including biological sciences..
LEXISNEXIS (and STATISTICAL UNIVERSE) (1990-present)
Full-text newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, statistical data
MEDLINE (1965-present)
Medicine, health, nursing, dentistry
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
All things biological, including GenBank, BLAST etc. see the list of subsections and search across all databases here.
NETLIBRARY
24,000 online books, all included in LTU online catalog
PSYCHINFO - Psychological Abstracts (1887-present)
Premier source of psychological articles worldwide
Now access it via the CSA Illumina platform and LinkSource
PUBMED (1950s-present)
16 Million citations on biomedical subjects.
READER’S GUIDE ABSTRACTS (1983-present)
The most famous general index to popular magazines, including New York Times
SAGE JOURNALS via SAGEPUBLICATIONS
405 Sage journals. Choose "Subscribed Publications" to get all of LTU's full-text journals.
SCIENCEDIRECT
Full-text of more than 1,600 journals in the physical sciences, life sciences, biology, and health sciences. Also includes additional journals with indexing and abstracts.
SCOPUS
15,000+ peer reviewed journals, websites, etc.
WILSON SELECT PLUS (1994-present)
Everything full-text, covering all subject areas
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