Health & Wellness Studies Databases/eResources

“Articles, Books, and More”

Use the library’s Discovery Service to retrieve BILLIONS of journal articles, books, book chapters, entries in reference resources (etc.) from thousands of individual databases. Type in your search terms and then select “Articles, Books, and More” from the drop-down menu.

Reference Resources

Credo Reference – brief entries from over 1k reference works, such as subject-specific encyclopedias, covering all subject areas.

Oxford Reference – brief entries from 400+ reference works in all subject areas.

Britannica Academic – a general encyclopedia intended for college students.

Gale in Context: Biography – information about notable people, both contemporary and historical, from a wide range of sources, such as biographical dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

Books

Converse – to find books, both print and electronic, in Converse’s Mickel Library, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “Converse Catalog.”

PASCAL Delivers – to find books, both print and electronic, in South Carolina’s college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “PASCAL Delivers.” You can borrow these books by signing in and following the instructions to “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”

WorldCat – records for millions of books in thousands of libraries; most of these are “borrow-able” through our Interlibrary Loan Service.

Periodical Articles

Alt HealthWatch – journals and pamphlets focusing on holistic and integrated approaches to health care.

Consumer Health Complete – aimed at consumers rather than academic researchers, this database provides health-related information primarily from popular health magazines.

Health Source: Consumer Edition – almost 80 full-text consumer health magazines.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – over 500 full-text scholarly journals.

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (1998-)

MEDLINE with Full Text – full-text articles from nearly 1,500 medical journals.

PubMed– more than 29 million citations to biomedical literature from Medline, etc., with occasional links to full-text articles.

Academic Search Complete– one of the world’s largest databases of academic journals and magazines on all subjects; includes complete articles from over 8k periodicals.

Business Source Premier – one of the largest and best-known databases for research in all aspects of business; includes full-text articles from several thousand academic journals and magazines in this field.

Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega – complete articles and citations to articles from several hundred popular magazines in all subjects.

Periodicals Available at Converse

Periodicals by Title – Key in some or all of a periodical’s title (NOT the title of the article itself) to retrieve a listing of periodicals the library owns in either electronic or print/physical format.

Interlibrary Loan

To request books held by South Carolina college/university libraries, please go to our Discovery Service, key in your terms and select PASCAL Delivers, click on the book you would like to borrow, sign in, and then click on “Request via PASCAL Delivers

To request articles and other non-book materials, as well as books NOT held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to Interlibrary Loan and select the correct form.