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Nursing Research Guide
Information on the print & electronic journals, reference sources, websites, citation guides and more.
Nursing Databases
HighWire Press from Stanford University
Free full-text articles from nursing and other science journals.
CINAHL with Full-Text
This link will take you to the Alphabetical List of Databases. Scroll down and click on CINAHL
"CINAHL with Full-Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full-text nursing and allied health journals. It provides full-text of more than 520 journals, with coverage back to 1982. It offers Basic, Advanced or Visual Search methods.
CINAHL Search Tips.doc
Troubleshooting your search.doc
To view a video tutorial or Powerpoint
on how to search CINAHL, go to:
Scroll down to "Product Specific Tutorials" and select one of the CINAHL Full-Text choices.
Cochrane Library
This link will take you to the Alphabetical List of Databases. Scroll down and click on Cochrane Library.
Click here to access user guides, a PowerPoint presentation, and other search aids.
ProQuest Nursing
Click on the link above. Next, click on the drop-down menu next to the words "Multiple Databases"and select "Medical Sciences: ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health".
This database contains citations, abstracts,
and/or the full-text of articles on nursing and 70 other health fields,
taken from over 600 scholarly journals, trade publications,
reference works and popular magazines.
It also contains the complete text of over 10,000 dissertations.
How to search ProQuest Nursing Database.doc
Health & Life Sciences from Science Direct
This link will take you to the Alphabetical List of Databases.
Scroll down and click on Health & Life Sciences or on Science Direct.
For best full-text results, click “Search” at the top of the page, then select “Subscribed Sources” from the drop-down menu. Note: FHSU subscribes only to Science Direct Journals, not books.
For interactive tutorials, click the Help tab
Collections of citations and full-text articles in the following disciplines:
- Medicine & Dentistry
- Nursing & Health Professions
- Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutical Science
- Veterinary Science & Medicine
- Ag & Biological Science
- Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Environmental Science
- Immunology & Microbiology
- Neuroscience
Sage Premier
(formerly Sage Full-Text Collections)
1982-present
To access: the link above will take you to the Alphabetical List of Databases.
Click on Sage Premier
Use the Quick Search to enter your keyword, or click Advanced Search to search a combination of terms. Check "Sage Content Available to Me" to limit your results to full-text articles only.
InfoTrac Databases with Nursing Content
To access: Click on the link, then on "Health Reference Center Academic" or "Nursing & Allied Health" in the alphabetical list. Then, in the next list, check the box for one or more databases that you want to search, and hit "Continue" at the top.
Health Reference Center Academic
1980 - present
Full-text articles, images and videos from nursing medical and allied health journals, as well as consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topic overviews and reference books.
Nursing & Allied Health Source
"All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 1000 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum."
PubMed
PubMed is the free digital archives of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, from the U.S. National Institues of Health. Coverage is from the late 1800s to the present. It contains citations and abstracts for millions of articles, with some full-text. To find full-text articles, click on "Limits" then check the box for "Free Full-Text". Enter your search term in the box at the top and click "go". Or, use PubMed Central, described below.
To view short video tutorials on how to search PubMed, click on Tutorials
on the left hand side of the screen. You can also click
"Help/FAQ" for information on many more help topics.
Subset of PubMed that contains half a million articles, all in full-text.
This database contains full-text articles from over 175 biomedical, peer-reviewed journals. A good scholarly database, but it has less focus on nursing than databases mentioned at the top of the page.
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Cochrane Library
“Cochrane brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care”.
Includes all 6 elements:
· Systematic Reviews,
· Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
· Central Register of Controlled Trials,
· Methodology Register,
· Health Technology Assessments
· NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Click here to access user guides, a PowerPoint presentation, and other search aids.
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Cochrane Library
“Cochrane brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care”.
Includes all 6 elements:
· Systematic Reviews,
· Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
· Central Register of Controlled Trials,
· Methodology Register,
· Health Technology Assessments
· NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Click here to access user guides, a PowerPoint presentation, and other search aids.
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Cochrane Library
“Cochrane brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care”.
Includes all 6 elements:
· Systematic Reviews,
· Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
· Central Register of Controlled Trials,
· Methodology Register,
· Health Technology Assessments
· NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Click here to access user guides, a PowerPoint presentation, and other search aids.
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Cochrane Library
“Cochrane brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care”.
Includes all 6 elements:
· Systematic Reviews,
· Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
· Central Register of Controlled Trials,
· Methodology Register,
· Health Technology Assessments
· NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Click here to access user guides, a PowerPoint presentation, and other search aids.
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Cochrane Library
“Cochrane brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care”.
Includes all 6 elements:
· Systematic Reviews,
· Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
· Central Register of Controlled Trials,
· Methodology Register,
· Health Technology Assessments
· NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Click here to access user guides, a PowerPoint presentation, and other search aids.
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Information for the Patient or Consumer
Health Source Consumer Guide
Click link above, then on title
Contains full-text articles from nearly 80 consumer health magazines,
covering medicine, childcare, nutrition, sports medicine and more.
Health Reference Center
Click the link above, then on title in list
Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets,
over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc,
and articles from 2,200 general interest publications.
Medline Plus
“...Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health ...on over 750 diseases and conditions... lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, ... and links to thousands of clinical trials.” ~website
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