LibGuides: Queens: Electronic Resources

Newspapers

New York Times
Read todays articles and full text available from1980 to present
U.S. Major Dailies
US Major Dailies provides access to five of the country’s most respected national and regional newspapers offering researchers complete and timely coverage of local, national, and world events: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
USA Today
Full text coverage Feb 17, 1997 - present
Citation/Abstract coverage Jan 2, 1989 - present

CBS 60 Minutes
CBS News 60 MINUTES offers access to transcripts and nearly 500 hours of video from 1997–2014.Each news segment within the collection serves as a standalone short documentary on a specific news topic. Segments are also included from CBS News program Sunday Morning, whose timely news pieces, cultural features, and newsmaker profiles form an ideal complement to 60 MINUTES content.

JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association.
1883-1925 1926-2010 Limited Search
MLA Top Health Websites
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Services Caucus (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates websites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency (timeliness), disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers. The following websites have been deemed particularly useful (in each area, sites are listed in alphabetical, NOT ranked, order).
The New England Journal of Medicine
Published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, the NEJM is a prestigious and historical weekly medical journal. Certain articles relating to public health are free to view upon publishing with all original articles made publicly available after 6 months.
Sigma Repository
The Sigma Repository (formerly the Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository) is the only repository solely dedicated to sharing works created by nurses around the world. It is an open digital academic and clinical focused service that freely collects, preserves, and disseminates full-text nursing research, educational, and evidence-based practice materials in a variety of formats and item types. The repository is a resource of Sigma Theta Tau International (Sigma).

THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available.
JStor
Free access to a large portion of the JSTOR archive with a registered, free personal account. Number of monthly reads available for free accounts is 100.
Create a JSTOR account and log in
Search for your materials
Click "read online"
"Turn the page" by clicking the arrows to the right of the content preview
NovelNY
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny is an online virtual library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information via libraries and library systems statewide
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing: (OJIN)
OJIN is a free, peer-reviewed, international journal addressing topics affecting nursing practice, research, education, and the wider health care sector. Both Medline and CINAHL index the journal.
James Lind Library
The Library contains material illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments throughout history.
Trip Database
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Access to documents and publications from WHO the World Health Organization IRIS Home (who.int)

How to search the new IRIS Interface Help (who.int)

LIRN
LIRN is a suite of online resources subscribed to by the Library & Resource Centers.
Our new Single Sign On feature lets you access all of LIRN's 800+ nursing journals, hundreds of general education and allied health journals, online 3-D anatomy software, video collections, and more with your Office credentials.
Click on the LIRN logo above, choose your school (SPSON) and use your school email to login. If you are already logged into your office account, you will be automatically logged into LIRN.
How to use LIRNSearch
Using Pre-Research to Understand Your Topic
Make use of a variety of source types and background resources to fully understand their research topic.
• Includes strategies for locating related sources and other avenues of research.
Credo Reference
ACADEMIC ALTERNATIVE TO WIKIPEDIA USE CREDO TO FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION OR OVERVIEW OF A TOPIC

You can also access LIRN through Canvas

Allied Health Films on Demand
Films on Demand by Infobase
Health & Medicine
Documentaries on the full spectrum of diseases and disorders; titles on human anatomy and physiology; investigations into public health issues; programming on nutrition and wellness; instructional films on health care and treatment; primers on careers in health and medicine
Mathematics Videos from Infobase
From business to the sciences to the trades, most students’ professions will inevitably involve mathematics. This collection aims to serve math’s cross-disciplinary nature, both with straightforward video lessons on branches from statistics to calculus, algebra and geometry, as well as programming about applied math in accounting, psychology, construction, and more. Documentaries on advanced theories and the history and global impact of math round out the collection for more serious students.
Nursing Video Collection
Nursing Video CollectionThis collection is designed not only to help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams, but also to prepare them for long-term job success in an increasingly complex health care system. It features titles from trusted producers such as Cengage Learning/Concept Media, NEVCO, Wolters Kluwer Health, Institute for Professional Care Education/Medifecta, and others.