Research Guides: Perry Health Sciences Campus Library: Library Resources

Library Catalog

This search box will search all six Wake Tech Community College libraries. If you wish to search only one library, select "Search other NC Community College libraries" and then select your home library.

How to Videos

For more help information, take a look at the following videos:

Video research tutorials to help you start the research process
Research Help: Home libguide (opens in new window)
Learn how to login to Wake Tech Library databases and library account off campus
WTCClibrarylogins (opens in new window)
Tutorial on using "Ask a WTCC Librarian". Learn how to instant message a library staff member: Library Chat (opens in new window)
Collection of Wake Tech YouTube tutorial videos (opens in new window)

Carter, D: (2020, March) The Summon Tool WTCC Libraries. Retrieved from YouTube https://youtu.be/jgjZZPkESIE (opens in new window)

Carter, D: (2020, March) Database Tutorial. Retrieved from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=jgjZZPkESIE&feature=emb_logo

Research Databases

Research databases are online, organized collections of information. A database can contain a number of information sources including scholarly journals, encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, videos, and images. Some databases cover a specific subject while others cover a wide variety of subjects.

Below is a list of the Wake Tech databases that contain health and medical information.

*Library Databases

Students, faculty, and staff at Wake Tech have remote access to library databases off campus. This includes full-text electronic books, journal & magazine articles, newspapers, videos, and much more.

Off-campus users: To access the research databases from off campus, click on the database link you would like to search. You will then be prompted to login. Your username is the first part of your email address (everything BEFORE @my.waketech.edu). Your password is the same as your email password. Login Instructions.

CINAHL Complete (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL®Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL®Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
Consumer Health Database (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care, and dentistry.
Health & Medical Collection (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.
Health Management Database (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Research supporting professional healthcare management and healthcare administration.
Lexicomp Facts and Comparisons (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Facts & Comparisons eAnswers is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools that provides users with an extensive drug information library.
Lexicomp Online (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Lexicomp Online provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Journals and dissertations covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.
Visible Body (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body

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New Books

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Ebooks

In addition to a large collection of books, the Health Sciences Library has access to thousands of ebooks. Below are some of the ebook collections:

ABC-CLIO E-book Collection (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
History & literature ebooks, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
Credo Reference (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference is a great place to start your research by using encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference resources.
Ebook Central (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Over 35,000 ebooks available to read and download.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
A collection of ebooks that you can read on your computer. This database allows you to use an online dictionary and create a citation for the ebook.
Gale Ebooks (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Searchable collection of online reference titles.
R2 Digital Library (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
The R2 Digital Library is a web-based database application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform.
Stat!Ref (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to medical, nursing, dental, and allied health texts.

Perry Health Sciences Campus Library: Library Resources