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Not all information found online is reliable or accurate. Carefully evaluate any information you want to use in your academic or professional projects.
The websites found on this page should give you access to reliable scholarly information on health topics, particularly when it comes to evidence-based practice.
Most of the information here is free, though it might just give you access to citations or abstracts of articles and not the full-text that you can read. When that happens, write down the names of the authors and the title of the article so that you can search for them later in the library's subscription databases.
PubMed is a free government website that is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine. It contains citations and abstracts to articles for almost every medical journal available. The full-text of some articles is available on the site, but you may have to search in the library’s subscription databases for others.
Google Scholar searches specifically for scholarly materials such as journal articles or research reports.
The search returns a list of citations and abstracts. You'll get links to the full text if it's from an open access (free) journal, or if the researcher posted the article on her/his website.
To get access to the full text of an article you find in Google Scholar, try searching for the exact title of the article in the library's databases like CINAHL or MEDLINE.
The Cochrane Library, according to Wikipedia, "is a collection of databases in medicine and other health care specialties provided by the Cochrane Collaboration and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews ... that summarize and interpret the results of medical research."
JCTC does not subscribe to the Cochrane Library, so you won't have access to the full text of articles. However, you can use it to find summaries of articles on your topics (the summaries are free) and possibly identify citations for articles that you can later try to find through the library’s databases like CINAHL or PsycINFO or MEDLINE or Academic Search Premier. You can access all of these on the next tab, Finding evidence/library databases.
To find statistics or determine what effect a problem has locally, there are a few websites to check.