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Respiratory Care Library Guide

Explore this Library Guide to find peer reviewed research, medical reference sources, and APA style citation help.

EBSCOhost

Full-text, academic research-based articles are available from these databases.

Guide to Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles
What is a "peer-reviewed article" and how do you find one? This guide walks you through a search in EBSCO. You'll be able to use the same search strategy in other databases.

EBSCOhost
A collection of databases containing full-text articles from thousands of magazines, journals, and newspapers covering a wide range of subjects; includes Academic Search Premier, MasterFile, and many more
ASHP’ Drug Library
A searchable database of patient drug information
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCO)
Journals covering a variety of areas pertaining to medical study
CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCO)
EBSCOhost has several health related databases including CINAHL, the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, & researchers.

(See a sample CINAHL search.)

Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics
Health Business FullTEXT (EBSCO)
Publications covering the business of health care administration and management and much more
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
Consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
Scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines as well as consumer medication information and patient education sheets
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more

Science Direct

ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences
Full-text scholarly health and life science journals from Elsevier.

Free Online Databases

PubMed Central
An open access archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
HighWire Press
The largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, from a division of the Stanford University Libraries

Use Google Scholar

Use Google Scholar to find journal articles. Some articles may be available in full-text. See your Librarian for help in locating those that are not.

Edit your Google Scholar Settings to also retrieve articles available through the Ivy Tech Library databases. Links in the the right-hand column of your search results will indicate articles available through the Ivy Tech Library