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• C.O.D. Library Catalog (Search for items in our Library)
  • Nursing Books in the C.O.D. Library
• Illinet Online
  Materials at 45 Illinois libraries. You may borrow directly from North Central College Library and Elmhurst College
• WorldCat
  A large number of U.S. and some world libraries

• Lumen Gross Anatomy Dissector
• Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary (via MEDLINEplus)
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Edition
• Merck Manual of Medical Information: Second Home Edition

• AORN Journal Association of Operating Room Nurses
• JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
• Nurseweek
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
• On-Line Journal of Nursing Informatics
• RNWeb

• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
• American Health Information Management Association
• American Nurses Association NursingWorld
• American Red Cross
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
• Emergency Nurses Association
• National League for Nursing
• NAPNES: National Association of Practical Nurse Education & Service, Inc.

• Healthfinder U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Offers consumer information useful for patient education.
• MEDLINEplus Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. 
• Medscape Nursing MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc. Make this your home page! Loads of great news and access to quality articles. Registration is free.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Searchable database of clinical practice guidelines.
• NIH Health Information Index From: National Institutes of Health. A searchable directory of NIH Institutes.

Health Science Courses often require APA citation style but you may be asked to use MLA style (clarify with your instructors what style is required for each research project).

C.O.D. Library's Citing Sources Page (APA and MLA examples for print and electronic resources as well as additional citation resources)

APA Style.org: Electronic References Remember that online sources, such as articles from databases and web sites, will require some extra steps in order to properly cite them!

Using APA Format from OWL--the Purdue Online Writing Lab (includes examples of parenthetical citation)