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BIO 161 Principles of Human Physiology (Allen): Finding Journal Articles

Databases and Research Guides

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
This comprehensive research database provides full-text for nursing and allied health journals indexed in CINAHL Plus. Additional materials include full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.

Covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full-text for current health pamphlets.

Content includes: nearly 30 active full-text non-open access magazines, 100 full-text reference books, more than 18,800 Clinical Reference Systems reports, and full-text for current health pamphlets.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by healthcare professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.

Subject Headings follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine.
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) freely accessible interface to the MEDLINE bibliographic database, covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biomedical engineering, the health care system, and the basic biomedical sciences.

MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from biomedical journals published in the United States and other countries. The database contains citations dating back to the mid-1950's. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's subject heading system, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).
Web of Science (Core Collection)

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Use Web of Science to perform a cited reference search, where you can look up an article and see how many times it has been cited. The Web of Science Core Collection includes the following databases: Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present), Book Citation Index (2005-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present), Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present), Index Chemicus (1993-present). Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.

Use these sources to find more information on the topics you are researching, or to discover topics that interest you:

Research guides - with more databases and other information sources on the following topics

Miami University Libraries Search - a great place to start!

Miami University Libraries Search

Start searching for articles here (searches multiple databases at once).
Use limiters to narrow your results - peer-reviewed, subject, date, etc.
Use the "Citation" option below the citation when you click on it to create an APA or MLA citation.
To share this article, click and copy the Permalink option option below the citation when you click on it (not the browser URL).

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Last Updated: Dec 3, 2025 10:40 AM
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