Health Sciences Library
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Subject Guides
Dive into the Library’s resources curated to the academic programs at WSU Health Sciences. Select the “View all” button below to find more tutorials, instruction, and topic-specific resources.
Research
Research resources are generally used as part of a research process or to find and use scholarly information. These are also an important part of gathering information for evidence-based practice.
Journal Databases
These databases are primarily aggregators of scholarly journal subscriptions. Most of these platforms include a “Find it @ WSU” button on each article record to connect you with our access to full text, which may be held in a different platform than the one being searched.
- CINAHL
- Embase
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- LILACS
- Native Health Database
- PsycInfo
- PubMed
- Web of Science
Data
Use data to find prevalence, assess need, and learn more about your research population.
Research Tools
Go beyond information sources and discover new ways to manage and expand your research.
- Covidence: Software to support evidence synthesis projects in deduplication, screening, and extraction.
- Journal Citation Reports: Find information regarding journals, impact factor, highly cited articles, and journal rankings. JCR includes a Manuscript Matcher tool to identify target journals for publication.
- SAGE Research Methods: Find books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on research methods in the social sciences.
- Semantic Scholar: Artificial intelligence–enabled search engine of scholarly works.
- Zotero: Free citation management software.
Clinical
Clinical resources are information sources that are likely to be used before, during, or after a clinical encounter. Point of care tools are important gateways to guidelines.
Point of Care
These tools also have mobile apps that can be used once you have created a personal login through these links. Please note that you must log in through these links every 90 days to confirm your WSU affiliation in order to maintain access within the app.
Drug Information
Find information on active ingredients, dosage, interactions, calculators, patient education, and more.
Academic
Academic resources include instructional and background information in the form of textbooks, videos, cases, flashcards, self-assessments, and more.
Books
Most of the books found in these collections support the Health Sciences curricula on campus. Individual titles within these subscriptions can also be found through a search of our discovery layer, Search It.
- AccessMedicine
- AccessPharmacy
- APA PsychiatryOnline
- ASHP eBooks
- ClinicalKey
- LWW Health Library
- NCBI Bookshelf
- Red Book Online
Multimedia
Watch videos of human anatomy and physical examination.
Current Information
Keep up to date with news from around the world and information about patents.
News
Keep up to date with news from around the world.
Patent Information
Discover patent applications, full-text patents, and utilize the Derwent Patent Citation Index (DPCI) to find citing patents.
- Derwent Innovations Index: Select Derwent Innovations Index from the “Search In:” box.
- US Patent and Trademark Office
