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Midwest College of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Library Resources
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The Midwest College has created this website to aid students by providing reviewed portals for academic research. This list will continue to expand as more portals are identified and posted.
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Are you passionate about academic research? Please let us know if you find new portals or websites that were helpful during your research. You can anonymously submit them through the MCOM Suggestion Box.
Check out the new TCM Curative Foods for the Seasons.
MCAHM Academic Research Links
CHECK OUT THE DESCRIPTIONS AND LINKS BELOW — The MCAHM staff has tested and verified these active links to open research sources. Right-click to Open a Resource in a New Tab / Mindmaps are not smartphone-compatible
- BASE — Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- IDEAS — Boasting its status as 'the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics and available freely on the Internet,' IDEAS indexes over 2.2 million items, more than 2 million of which can be freely downloaded.
- ERIC — of the Institution of Education Sciences, allows you to search by topics related to education. Links lead to other sites, where you may have to purchase information, but you can search for full-text articles only.
- EconBiz — an excellent resource for economic and business studies. It offers the option of searching all free-access journals or only open-access material.
- NIH — The National Institute of Health's mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
- PhilPapers — an index of philosophy-related journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages of academics... allows you to browse over 1,000 philosophy journals.
- PLOS — a non-profit organization committed to facilitating openness in academic research... all PLOS content is at the highest possible level of open access.
- CiteSeerX — a computer and information science database
- • NEW - MCOM faculty and staff have created an interactive Materia Medica Mindmap to aid in the study of individual Chinese herbs.
- • NEW - MCAHM faculty and staff have created an interactive TCM Food Properties Mindmap as a study guide. (Beta Testing)
- • NEW - MCAHM faculty and staff have created an interactive Palpatory Acupuncture as a study guide. (Beta Testing)
- • NEW - MCAHM faculty and staff have created an interactive Chinese Formula Mindmap to aid in the study of individual Chinese formulas.
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