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OSU Extension

This guide is for Family & Consumer Sciences county extension agents.

Library Resources To Support Your Research

OSU Extension has identified health and wellness as an Impact Area. Looking for evidence-based resources to help you do professional research in this area? This page will get you started. Contact us for further help.

The Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Library & Student Success Center (FAES Library & SSC) has created a library resources and services guide for Extension professionals.

E-magazines and Newsletters

Consumer Health Databases

Off-campus sign in is required for use of the following databases:

Sign in is required from off-campus.

Consumer Health Complete - Full-text database contains encyclopedias, reference books, journals and magazines as well as anatomy images and videos.

Health Source: Consumer Edition - Full-text database contains consumer health magazines, patient education handouts, medical dictionary and health reference books.

AltHealthWatch - Integrative medicine (alternative and complementary) database contains full-text articles in more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports.

Natural & Alternative Treatments - Evidence-based database contains reports and articles on medical conditions, herbs, dietary supplements, drug interactions, and alternative treatments and homeopathy.

Other Health Sciences databases are here.

Online Books @ OSU

If you are off campus, use the Off Campus Sign-In for access.  The sign-in link is located in the banner above each of these resources.