Resources

The databases below are electronic indexes used to find articles in journals, conference proceedings, and theses. Searching these databases will retrieve records containing citations and often abstracts.

Alternative Health Watch (CKHA & Bluewater only) This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Canadian Medical Directory (MD Select) is the online version of the Canadian Medical Directory and provides access to over 57,000 Canadian physicians. For off-site access using your Athens login, click here. 

CINAHL is the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL indexes over 1,200 journals in the fields of nursing, occupational and physical therapy, social work, and other allied health disciplines from 1982 to the present. Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching) for new citations not yet added to the main CINAHL database.
CKHA and Bluewater Health users click here to access CINAHL Plus with fulltext.

Cochrane/Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR from Ovid) This version of the Cochrane Library contains all the same information as the Wiley version plus evidence summaries of the ACP Journal Club. The individual databases in the Cochrane collection are:

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
• Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR)
• Health Technology Assessment
• NHS Economic Evaluation Database
• Cochrane Methodology Register

CultureVision - Cultural Competency Briefs on Religion, Ethnicity and Careprovides a set of cultural reports that lead to a better understanding of patient care. Covering over 30 ethnicities and 11 religions, CultureVision reports deliver resources for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with respect to their beliefs and practices.

Dynamed (CKHA & Bluewater only) DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

e-Books to which WOHKN members have online access.

e-CPS is the online version of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals & Specialties and provides access to current information on Canadian drug products. See also e-Therapeutics+.
For off-site access using your Athens login, click here.

e-Journals to which WOHKN members have online access.

e-Therapeutics+ provides best practices information on common medical conditions. Content includes the Canadian Pharmacists Association’s (CPhA) Therapeutic Choices, the full power of e-CPS, Lexi-Comp’s™ Lexi-Interact™ and a continually growing range of external references to create a centralized resource for drug therapy information. See also e-CPS.
For off-site access using your Athens login, click here. 

 Health and Wellness Resource Center provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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Health Business provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.

Joanna Briggs EBN promotes and supports Best Practice in nursing with Best Practice information sheets, systematic reviews, and evidence summaries. Users also receive access to Rapid Assessment Protocol internet database (RAPid) and System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (SUMARI). The RAPid training tool enables users to systematically evaluate research articles and write structured research findings to publish on the JBI interface. SUMARI is a developing software package designed to assist health and other researchers and practitioners to conduct systematic reviews.

  Knowledge Ontario provides Ontarians with free access to a wide range of digital resources including full-text magazines, newspapers, journals, essays, encyclopedias, dictionaries and e-books. In particular, the Expanded Academic ASAP, Academic OneFile, Health & Wellness Resource Center and Teen Health and Wellness provide health care professionals and consumers with fulltext access to hundreds of health and clinical medicine journals.
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Medical Letter is a drug reference service that publishes critical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs.  It includes fulltext of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics (including the Canadian edition), Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter, the online book Antimicrobial Therapy, and the Adverse Drug Interactions database. For off-site access using your Athens login, click here. 

MEDLINE (on Ovid) is an international bibliographic database of over 4,500 biomedical journals. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences from 1950 to the present. MEDLINE/PubMed does not index books or book chapters.

Micromedex  (LHSC & SJHC only) is a drug reference system from Thomson Healthcare that outlines comprehensive drug details, alternative medicine and therapy evidence, reproductive risks of drugs, drug interactions, and patient information.

Mosby's Nursing Skills is an online skills and procedures reference system that includes over 480 skills from leader reference works in nursing including Potter & Perry's Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, Proehl's Emergency Nursing Procedures, and the AACN Procedure Manual for Critical Care.  Learning materials are presented in multiple formats - textbook chapters, quick checklists, multimedia, diagrams, supplies lists, and tests. For off-site access using your Athens login, click here.

Natural Standard aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Using a comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales, information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a multidisciplinary editorial board.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Collection provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 780 titles, with over 650 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields. This collection includes the Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Resources as well as Cultural Competency Briefs on Religion, Ethnicity and Care.

Psychology & Behavioral Health Collection (CKHA & Bluewater only) This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO covers professional and academic literature in the behavioral sciences, mental health, and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, pharmacology, social work, sociology, education, linguistics, management, business, law, social work, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide and includes references and abstracts to over 1,800 journals from the 1800s to the present.

PubMed is an international bibliographic database of over 4,500 biomedical journals. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences from 1950 to the present. MEDLINE/PubMed does not index books or book chapters. Pubmed is freely available on the internet.

 Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers is a comprehensive database that allows teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related issues important to their well-being. It’s both a research/report tool and a self-help resource. If you do not find the answer to your question in our extensive help section, please see our User's Guide or contact us for further assistance.
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UpToDate (LHSC & SJHC only) is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care.  UpToDate enables physicians to: Access the most current information within their specialty; Recognize the clinical manifestations of a wide variety of disorders and describe current options for diagnosis, management and therapy, including the efficacy, doses, and interactions of individual drugs; Identify optimal screening and prevention strategies.

Zynx Evidence (Thames Valley Hospitals only) develops and updates clinical synopses on a wide array of inpatient conditions based on rigorous reviews of the peer-reviewed literature and regulatory standards.
The following institutions have access to this resource:
Alexandra Hospital (Ingersoll), Alexandra Marine & General Hospital (Goderich), London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph's Health Care, London, St.Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, South Huron Hospital Association (Exeter),Strathroy-Middlesex General Hospital, St.Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital, Woodstock General Hospital, Four Counties Health Services (Newbury), Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance including Clinton Public Hospital, Seaforth Community Hospital, Stratford General Hospital and St. Marys Memorial Hospital.

Local Library Resources & Catalogues

Libraries

Western Libraries, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Health Sciences Library, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario
Library Services, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario
Shared Library Services, South Huron Hospital Association, Exeter, Ontario
Health Sciences Library, Grey Bruce Health Services, Owen Sound, Ontario
Library Services, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Chatham, Ontario
Library Services, Bluewater Health, Sarnia, Ontario

Catalogues

St. Joseph's Health Care London Catalogue (SJHC Only)

London Health Sciences Centre Catalogue (LHSC Only)

Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Catalogue (CKHA Only)