Databases for Nursing Research
Journal articles are an important resource, which you can find by searching for your topic in the library databases. To find journal articles on topics in Nursing try one of the Nursing and Medicine Databases listed below:
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window A core collection of articles, evidence-based care sheets, and book chapters in the areas of nursing and allied health, 1937 to present.
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- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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- MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window Provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE, including more than 1,400,000 full-text articles dating back to 1965.
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- Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window Covers a range of topics in nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, with over 700 full text titles.
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- Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window A point-of-care resource designed for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, and nurse faculty. The collection includes “Quick Lessons” and “Evidence-based Care Sheets” on diseases and disorders; practice guidelines; patient education sheets, some available in Spanish; information on CE research instruments and legal cases. Integrated with EBSCO's CINAHL Plus and MEDLINE databases.
- Pubmed (Entrez) This link opens in a new window Citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals.
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Below are some other helpful databases for finding nursing literature and other resources:
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window Provides streamed access to the 18 modules of the series. Now in its Fifth Edition and featuring completely reshot content and new clinical skills videos, Bates Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques.
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- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window A collection of evidence-based health care resources including Cochrane Reviews, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the Cochrane Methodology Register. The Cochrane Reviews are provided in full text.
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- Health Management Database This link opens in a new window Provides full-text information covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
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- SMART Imagebase This link opens in a new window SMART Imagebase: Scientific & Medical ART - a collection of over 20,000 illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
You may also want to search one of these Multi-Subject Databases:
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Provides more than 7,000 multidisciplinary full-text periodicals, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals, and more than 11,600 monographs, reports, conference proceedings, dating back as far as 1887.
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- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Large multidisciplinary database including more than 25,000 titles, over 19,000 in full text. Besides journals, PQC includes 2206 newspapers, over 100,000 full text dissertations, 30,000 market reports, with some backfiles dating as far back as 1921
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- Scopus This link opens in a new window Provides comprehensive coverage of scientific, technical, medical, and social science information, including citation data, dating as far back as 1966 to the present. In addition, 3,500 of its 18,000 journal titles cover the arts and humanities.
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To see all of the databases the AU Libraries have access to, click on the A - Z Databases & More link.