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Doing research online? Want good results? The following links are premier databases and webpages that have been evaluated by Heights Library staff. Please note that some premier databases require a library card to access from home.

Cleveland Jewish News
Cleveland Jewish News and Cleveland Jewish News Archive. Full text, from the current issue to the first issue published October 30, 1964.
Cleveland Jewish News Olive Digital Edition
Cleveland Jewish News ActivePaper Archive

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icon Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Tags: Magazines, Newspapers, Journal Articles, Research

icon Alt HealthWatch from EBSCO Host
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals.
Tags: Health, Consumer Information, Science

icon American Geriatrics Society
The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging's Web site provides news releases, question and answer pages on a growing list of relevant topics, and includes an annotated list of links as well as a bibliography of related sources.
Tags: Seniors, Health

icon Breast Cancer DIY
A website created for women with breast cancer, by women with breast cancer. Blogs, resources and links. All links are checked monthly, and many are multi-lingual.
Tags: Consumer Information, Health, Cancer, Breast Cancer

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icon Global Health Facts
The Kaiser Foundation sponsors this health facts site that covers worldwide statistics on disease and other demographics.
Tags: Health, Statistics

icon Grants.gov
Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal government grants. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Tags: Grants, Education, Health

icon GreenFILE
GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Comprised of more than 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. There are approximately 295,000 records and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records.
Tags: Articles, Journals, Environment, Earth, Issues

icon Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Tags: Health, Science, Consumer Information

icon Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Tags: Health, Science, Research, Articles, Journals

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icon Household Products Database: Health and Safety Information on Household Products
What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling.
Tags: Consumer Information, Health, Household

icon Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a completely new, visually appealing look and feel; the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords; simultaneous searching across all subscribed databases; the ability to sort results by relevance, as well as by date; the option of filtering search results by source type; and the ability to add search results, images, or persistent links to searches to the Folder.
Tags: Research, Search

icon MasterFILE Premier
Full text articles from nearly 1,800 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. It also offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstracts backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily.
Tags: Business, Newspapers, Magazines, Health, Science, Social Science, Arts, History

icon MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
(® U.S. National Library of Medicine) -- The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years. Contains over 9 million records dating back to 1966.
Tags: Health, Consumer Information, Science, Medicine, Journals, Research

icon MedLine Plus
This comprehensive site gives you information on drugs, ailments, causes and treatment. You can also view interactive tutorials and get information medical articles.
Tags: Health, Medical

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icon Medpedia
In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations, Medpedia is a repository of up-to-date unbiased medical information, contributed and maintained by health experts around the world, and freely available to everyone.
Tags: Health, Medical, Consumer Information

icon My Medicare Matters
Offers numerous brochures, primarily on health topics, links to Web sites operated by state agencies on aging. Sponsored by the National Council on Aging.
Tags: Seniors, Health

icon National Center for Health Statistics
Public resource that compiles statistical information including vital statistics: aging, birth, death, marriage, divorce, disease, and health care.
Tags: Health, Medical, Federal Government

icon National Women's Health Information Center (Government Website)
Federal government source for women's health information.
Tags: Women, Health, Medical

icon NetWellness Medical Database
NetWellness is a Web-based consumer health information service that provides the most current and accurate health information. Provided by OPLIN. Must have an Ohio library card to access from home.
Tags: Health, Medical, Consumer Information, Magazines

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icon New England Journal of Medicine
This is the online home for the NEJM, featuring abstracts for past issues along with many full-text articles.
Tags: Health, Medicine

icon Ohio Department of Aging
The Ohio Department of Aging serves more than 2 million older Ohioans. We help mature adults live active, healthy and independent lives through programs like our well-known Golden Buckeye Card. We promote positive attitudes toward aging and older people t
Tags: Seniors, Ohio, Health

icon Ohio Medical Board
Search for a physician that has been liscensed by the State Medical Board here in Ohio.
Tags: Medical, Ohio

icon Seniorlink
National eldercare resource, referral and consultation web site for seniors promoting optimal health and independent living.
Tags: Seniors, Health

icon Seniors-Site.com - For Senior Citizens their children & caregivers : Seniors Site (Seniors-Site.com)
A blog for seniors and their children & caregivers.
Tags: Seniors, Health

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icon Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)
EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Tags: Children's, Research, Encyclopedias, Magazines, Dictionaries

icon Third Age
Online home of active older adults filled with ideas and interactions generated and hosted by the view of its citizens - the Third Agers.
Tags: Seniors, Health

icon United Way's First Call for Help - 211
United Way's 211/First Call For Help is a free and confidential information service ready to direct you to the health and human services you need in Cuyahoga County. Just dial 2-1-1* or (216) 436-2000. Professional staff are here to help you 24 hours a day, every day. Last year, nearly 95,000 people turned to us for information about a wide variety of health and human services. You can get help from agencies that provide: Services for senior citizens Counseling and mental health services Recreation and social activities Treatment for substance abuse Services for people with disabilities Home-delivered meals Shelter Health care Services for children and families Emergency food
Tags: 211, First Call for Help, United Way, Social Services

icon World Book Kids
Intended for grades K-8, World Book Kids is a fun and interactive way to introduce younger students to the world of online learning. Searching is simple and can be done by keyword or by choosing a general subject that breaks down into specific topics. The encyclopedia also provides images, diagrams, maps and activities tied to national curriculum standards.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Children's

icon World Book Online
World Book Online is a research tool that includes encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. News, images and "today in history" are additional features.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Children's

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icon World Book Reference Center
World Book Encyclopedia articles form the foundation of this expansive reference database that includes the World Book Dictionary, the World Book Atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to state and provincial curriculum standards, and much more.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Reference

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Grants
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Household
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Journal Articles
Journals
Magazines
Medical
Medicine
Newspapers
Ohio
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Seniors
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icon CH-UH
Must be a Cleveland Heights/University Heights resident with a CLEVNET library card to use database from home.
icon CLEVNET
Must have a CLEVNET library card to use database from home.
icon Inside CH-UH
Must use database from inside a Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library.
icon Librarian Recommended
Database/Web site is accessible from anywhere without a library card.
icon Ohio Web Library
Database provided by Ohio Web Library. Must have an Ohio library card to use this database from home.