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  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Alt HealthWatch EBSCO
    Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. more info
    Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library
  • Available via the World Wide Web  AMA Physician Select
    Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). more info
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Credo Reference  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works covering art, biography, business, geography, history and social science, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy and psychology, religion, science and technology. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
    This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. more info
    Availability:   Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Gale Virtual Reference Library  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    Offers searchable eBook reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  General Science Abstracts
    This database, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, offers indexing and abstracts for more than 250 leading science journals and magazines from the US and Great Britain. more info
    Availability:   Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  General Science Full Text
    Full text science articles from 75 journals. Includes graphs, charts, diagrams, photos and illustrations. Indexing covers 250 periodicals with coverage dates back to 1984. more info
    Availability:   Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    A comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface. Included in the database are full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets from a wide variety of medical sources as well as "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine". more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Health Source: Consumer Edition EBSCO  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    Full text for journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition EBSCO  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    Includes scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. more info
    Availability:   Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Available via the World Wide Web  Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
    An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art. more info
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  MEDLINE
    Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published on the Web by Community of Science, MEDLINE® is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains records from over 4,900 publications from 1950 to present. more info
    Availability:   Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Available via the World Wide Web  MEDLINEplus
    Allows users to search about specific conditions using dictionaries, MEDLINE, PUBMED and other resources. more info
  • Available via the World Wide Web  NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
    A guide to the latest health information and resources.
    Acceso Computarizado a la Salud de Nueva York (NOAH, siglas en inglés) le proporciona al consumidor información sobre la salud en inglés y en español. more info
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Nursing and Allied Health Collection  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    This collection provides nearly 400 titles which cover various topics related to nursing, consumer and allied health. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia, including its viewpoint articles that present the pros and cons of the issue. This database also includes a language translator which allows documents to be converted into eight different languages. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Science Citation Index
    Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. Indexes 5,900 journals in 150 scientific disciplines. Topics include: Agriculture, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology,Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Materials Science, Medicine, Neuroscience, Oncology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physics, Plant Sciences,Psychiatry, Surgery, Veterinary Science, Zoology. (A citation index contains the references cited by the authors of the articles covered by the index. Use these references to do cited reference searching. A cited reference search enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work. Also search by topic, author, source title, and address.) more info
    Availability:   Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Connect On-Site from the Library  Teen Health & Wellness  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    Provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts