Nursing/Medicine
Journals and Journal Indexes

• Annual Reviews of Biomedical Sciences-- keyword, author or title searches through the archives and current issues of 17 annual reviews, and retrieve the full text articles. By subscription as of 1999.
• Behavioral and Brain Functions -- an open access journal, full-text and searchable.
• Biomedical Abbreviation Server -- The database currently has 2,074,367 abbreviations, hosted by Stanford University.
• Biomedical Journal Title Search--after you've searched Medline, you can look those abbreviated journal titles up here to find out what the full journal titles are.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Search--kind of like Medline for alternative medical practices. Browseable and keyword searchable.
• Full Text Articles from JAMA & Archives Collections -- includes all the JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collection terms with articles indexed across all issues of JAMA & Archives Journals from January 1998 forward.
• Free Medical Journals Online -- sorted by specialty, alphabetically and by how many years old, which is when many start to be free. Also in different languages.
• Globalization and Health -- an open access journal, full-text and searchable.
• Medical Computing Today--a valuable resource for clinical computing, medical education, medical informatics, and telemedicine, this contains news updates, bibliographies, and backfiles of articles.
• Medical World Search--indexes the full contents of major medical web sites, and allows you to search through all of them with a search engine that will automatically look for related terms. Some stuff is free. Registration is from $45/yr to $65 for two years.
• Medline from PubMed--free Medline searching, with links to the full text journals on PubMed. 
• Medscape--also offers Medline searching free with registration, as well as annotated links and a database of full-text peer-reviewed articles.
• MDChoice.com--useful for doctors and patients alike, with free Medline (they promise the best search engine on the net for Medline), a patient education center, drug database, and interactive tutorials for doctors
• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health, Research, Practice and Policy -- a free journal from the CDC, it "will emphasize a comprehensive view of the challenges in preventing chronic disease — by promoting dialogue, encouraging interdisciplinary and multisectorial approaches, and exploring new theories and concepts. It will explore new theories and concepts of research and practice in editorials and commentaries as well as in original articles"
• University of Iowa Libraries--check those journal titles against the University of Iowa's catalog. Click on InfoHawk.
• St. Ambrose University Journal List -- check what we own for the journal citations you may find.
  
  *SAU faculty, staff, and students may contact a reference librarian at O'Keefe Library for information about accessing articles in our medical journal databases.