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Welcome to The Graduate Institute Library!

From these pages you can access a variety of information resources available to you as a student at The Graduate Institute, as well as some of the best freely available resources on the Web.

Search academic databases for a variety of subjects!

The first time you search these databases you can login with a username and password that the TGI Librarian will provide you - if you have not received this, you can contact me. After that, you can create an individual account, and login with that username and password, which will you allow you to save articles for subsequent sessions.

Individual Research Databases on Health

The first time you search these databases you can login with a user ID and password that the TGI Librarian will provide you - if you have not received this, you can contact me. After that, you can create an individual account, and login with that username and password, which will you allow you to save articles for subsequent sessions.

PubMed and PubMed Central

PubMed is a database of citations and abstracts for more than 27 million articles.

Searching in PubMed Includes explanation of how PubMed's simple search interprets your search terms.

Finding Qualitative Research Articles in Pubmed. Guide from University of Washington Libraries.

PubMed Central® (PMC) is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles, offering free access to its contents. PMC contains more than 4 million articles, most of which have a corresponding entry in PubMed. You can limit your search in many ways, including limiting it to "Complementary Medicine".

Research Databases for Educators

The first time you search these databases you can login with a username and password that the TGI Librarian provides you. After that, you can create an individual account, and login with that username and password.

Databases for General Interest and Newspaper Articles

The first time you search these databases you can login with a username and password that the TGI Librarian will provide you - if you have not received this, you can contact me. After that, you can create an individual account, and login with that username and password, which will you allow you to save articles for subsequent sessions.

ISHAR Library

ISHAR (Integrative Studies Historical Archive & Repository) offers tens of thousands of free, qualified academic sources on a range of topics, the main coverage of which includes Integrative Health, Integrative Culture and Integrative Theory. 

  • Integrative Health (Medical sources): All subjects relating to integrative medical or psychological health. A few examples include acupuncture’s palliative effects, yoga’s health benefits, meditation’s psychological benefits and Ayurveda’s efficacy.  This is the largest section in ISHAR.
  • Integrative Culture (Historical & Anthropological sources): All subjects relating to cultural, historical and social aspects of belief systems, cosmologies, spirituality, cultural traits and practices.
  • Integrative Theory (Scientific & Philosophical sources): All subjects relating to theoretical studies into integrative concepts that are scientific but not centered on medicine. Examples include consciousness research, quantum physics’ implications and philosophy.

 

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