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A robust collection of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 925 journals indexed in CINAHL. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments. Indexed back to 1937.

Access to peer-reviewed literature from scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus also includes extensive journal metrics and author profiles.

The Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) is a compendium of internationally recognized standards for the identity, purity, and quality of food ingredients. It features over 1,200 monographs, including food-grade chemicals, processing aids, food ingredients (such as vegetable oils, fructose, whey, and amino acids), flavoring agents, vitamins, and functional food ingredients (such as lycopene, olestra, and short chain fructooligosaccharides). 

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Hundreds of nonfiction digital audiobooks related to health and medicine. For the best experience, download the Libby app and then “Add a Library” and search for USF Health Libraries. Listen through your mobile device!

Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data. Statista provides access to statistics and forecasts on 80,000 different topics from more than 22,500 sources. Browse all the available data, or navigate right to the Health, Pharma & Medtech section.

USP–NF is a combination of two compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). USP contains monographs for drug substances, dosage forms, and compounded preparations as well as dietary supplements and ingredients monographs in a separate section. Excipient monographs are in the NF. 

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