Midwifery

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Subject Databases

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Multifile: EBMZ (also includes Cochrane databases)
• Medline
• NOSM: Health Information Resource Centre Databases
• NOSM: Health Information Resource Centre E-Books
• NOSM: Health Information Resource Centre E-Journals
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection
• Nursing Resource Center
• OVID Books
• OVID Nursing Journals
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
• PubMed (use Refworks to search Pubmed)

Some Related Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• BDSP (Banque de données santé publique)
• Cairn
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
• Eureka.cc (Biblio Branchée)
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies)
• Health Reference Center Academic
• La Leche League
• LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database)
• Lexis-Nexis Academic (includes Quicklaw)
• Medline
• Motherisk
• Ontario Scholars PortalPOPLINE (POPulation information onLINE)
  • Science Direct (including Midwifery)(alternative access)
  • Springer LINK service(alternative access)
  • WILEY Online Journals (alternative access)
• WorldCat

Some Internet Portals

• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
• Internet for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
• MIDIRS
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• SOGC: Clinical practice guidelines (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada)
• WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL)

Research Aids

Book Reviews

• Book Review Digest
• Canadian Book Review Annual (on-campus use only)

Dictionaries

• Baillière's Midwives' Dictionary (In Print: RG 45 B3 1992)
• OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopædia Britannica On-line
• Encyclopædia Universalis
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences