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Diagnostic Medical Sonography: Core Databases

Research Information

General Health Databases

Health Source Academic Edition
Full text for over 500 scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health. Indexing and abstracts for an additional 800+ journals are also included
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text (Nursing and Allied Health)
Citations to and full text of scholarly journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and more on topics related to nursing, biomedicine, alternative medicine and consumer health.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative, scholarly information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Statistics Database

Health, Nutrition & Population Statistics
Key health, nutrition and population statistics on countries worldwide from a variety of international sources. (more...)

NLM Visible Human Project

The U.S. National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project has produced high resolution (4096 x 2048 x 24 bits) cryosectional color images of human anatomy. The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, an R&D division of the NLM, through its Communications Engineering Branch, has created a database for this image dataset as well as for 3D rendered images of anatomic objects created from cryosectional images (cross-sections or slices).
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Please Note:To log in and download images from the Visible Human Data Set, you must have a username and password.
Students required to use this data for class can obtain the password from their instructor or from the Jerome Library Research & Information Desk. If you are an instructor who would like to use this data for classroom instructional purposes only, then please send an email message to the following individuals and one of them will contact you regarding the password: Amy Fry or Linda Brown.

The library's password is designed for classroom instructional purposes. If you are working on an individual research project, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) requests that you sign up for an individual account, which is available free of charge. Visit The Visible Human Project – Getting the Data to be directed to the request form.