National Library of Medicine. The authoritative index in the field of medicine. International in scope, it indexes approximately 4000 journals in the medical field. A free search engine for searching Medline developed by the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals should use this search engine as it has very powerful searching capabilities using all avenues of access.
Emphasis is on diseases and disorders, their diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Allied health professionals will need to look here for research on diseases, procedures and disorders. FirstSearch Medline . A good source that is easily searched if you are not performing comprehensive research. This is the index for nursing and the allied health professions. It indexes 900 of the nursing and allied health journals, more than any other database, and emphasizes subject headings that are used exclusively in nursing and allied health.