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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. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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
    Provides access to medical, health, and wellness information, including full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets, as well as "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine". more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; 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  Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center  Connect from home using your NYPL Branch Library card
    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. more info
    Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Available via the World Wide Web  Prevention Magazine
    Prevention is the #1 healthy lifestyle magazine brand and the 10th largest magazine in the nation, with more than 11 million readers. The top online health magazine destination, Prevention.com has 1.6 million unique visitors each month. more info
  • 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. more info
    Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts