AHU Resource Guides: Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE): Databases

Databases to Find Articles

The databases listed below could assist with finding articles of interest related to the CPE program.

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to more than 4,000 journals covering most areas of study.
Atla Religion Database with Atla Serials (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window The premier full text index of journal articles, essays, and book reviews on theology and religion, from the American Theological Library Association.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides one way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Various forms of scholarly literature are indexed: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. If accessed through the Library website, Google Scholar will include links to full-text articles owned by the Library.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Healthcare information from full-text nursing and health journals and dissertations.
SocINDEX with Full Text (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window SocINDEX is a comprehensive full-text sociology research database encompassing all sub-disciplines and related areas of sociology study. Over 2.1 million records from 1895 to present day on a wide range of subjects such as criminology, demography, abortion, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development & psychology, substance abuse, and many others.

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Databases for Background Medical Information

AccessMedicine (McGraw-Hill) This link opens in a new window AccessMedicine is a compendium of more than 130 medical titles, full length drug monographs, and self-assessment tools that provide wide coverage of medical information. AccessMedicine also features a unique collection of  examination and procedural videos, patient safety modules, audio files, animations, and case studies.
CINAHL Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window CINAHL Complete is an authoritative resource for nursing and allied health articles. It searches an indexed collection of nearly 3 million articles from more than 3000 journals covering nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, rehabilitation, radiography, sonography, and more. CINAHL Complete also includes the full text of articles from nearly 600 of the journals in the index.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Healthcare information from full-text nursing and health journals and dissertations.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine) This link opens in a new window Search the National Librarian of Medicine database of biomedical and health sciences journals through the publicly available NLM search interface.
UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer) This link opens in a new window UpToDate is a clinical decision support tool of evidence-based information on drugs, medical specialties, and treatment recommendations.

World Religions & Sacred Text

World Religions Online (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
Facts on File's World Religions Online database offers an objective and comprehensive guide to the World's major religions and spiritual traditions.

More on Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a subset of Google and indexes journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations. The material comes from a variety of places --- publishers, vendors, universities, government agencies and other organizations.

Please remember that some is free and some needs a subscription or "not free".

The steps below add the "code" of AHU or could add any school that participates with Google Indexing.

1. Begin on the library website: https://library.ahu.edu/

2. Click on Databases

3. Scroll to Google Scholar (From the Databases link it recognizes AHU journals)

ADDING School listing

4. Click on 3 lines (hamburger) top left

5. Settings

6. Click Library Links

7. Type in AdventHealth University

8. Check box >> Save