Online Databases
BVU provides access to over 60 extensive databases, conveniently
arranged by academic area.
Click on the links to access the database. For more information about a database, click on 
next to the database name.
Medicine
Amount of
Full Text
Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.
Go to this database 
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines. This database also includes searchable full-text for current, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Go to this database
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
Go to this database
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. LNA covers 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep back-files and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Go to this database
Medline indexes over 10,000 journals in all fields of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Medline provides indexing for over 17 million articles published from 1950 to the present and is updated daily.
Go to this database
ScienceDirect provides access to thousands of academic journals published by Elsevier. BVU has purchased access to the full-text of over 1,100 of those journals in the areas of Heath & Life Sciences. This sub-set of the ScienceDirect collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering biology, medical and nursing and allied health, sports science, and environmental science. Articles are available from 1995 to the present. Full-text access is denoted by a green page icon.
Go to this database
SPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive sports and sports medicine database. Articles from more than 440 journals are available with links to full-text. Coverage ranges from 1985 to the present. Material published in books and conference proceedings is also indexed in this database.
**SPORTDiscus allows up to four simultaneous users.**
Go to this database
