Allied Health Electronic Resources
Many of these databases are licensed for use by Western Piedmont students, faculty, and staff only. We must, therefore, restrict off-campus access to non-public resources, per our agreements with database vendors. Students, faculty and staff can use their standard Western Piedmont Network username and password to access this content. If you are on-campus, you will never be challenged for a username or password. If you have any questions or problems with these resources, please call the library at (828) 448-3160.
Allied Health Electronic Resource Subscriptions
(Controlled Access)
CINAHL + with Full-Text
CINAHL Complete, the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals, provides fast and easy access to top nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules. This database contains full text for many of the most used journals found in the CINAHL index. Access to a comprehensive scope of content covering over 50 nursing specialties as well as allied health subjects including speech and language pathology, nutrition, physical therapy and much more.
Here is a tutorial on how to use CINAHL® Plus with Full Text
Medline with Full-Text
MEDLINE® with Full Text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE® with Full Text uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. This database is also the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. With full-text coverage dating back to 1965,MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature.
Here is a tutorial on how to use Medline with Full Text
Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Database
The Nursing & Allied Health Database is a comprehensive resource for students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals. Whether it’s supporting a clinical research study or providing faculty with instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice, librarians rely on the Nursing & Allied Health Database for its diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews. Specifically, while other providers tend to focus solely on the information needs of professionals, the Nursing & Allied Health Database is best used for those preparing for a career in healthcare, teaching patient care, or engaged in nursing research. By going beyond journals and taking a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to subject coverage, this database is uniquely suited for students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals.
Here is a tutorial on how to use the Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Database:
Ovid Nursing Databases
This search engine provides access to a wide selection of full-text Nursing and Allied Health literature from hundreds of top-tier professional journals.
Here is a tutorial on how to use the Ovid Nursing Databases:
STAT!Ref
A comprehensive collection of databases that allows users to cross-search online resources.
Page Updated February 4, 2022