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SUBJECT: Nursing
Recommended starting places
CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1982-present. CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) covers journals, books, and other materials in nursing and several allied health fields. Pre-CINAHL, a companion database, provides current awareness of new journal articles, and enables users to gain access to article citations that are in the process of being added to CINAHL.
Medline (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1966-present. The National Library of Medicine's database of medical journal literature.
Nursing and Allied Health Source (ProQuest)
(article index)
Full-text journals and dissertations in nursing and the allied health fields, as well as Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the Joanna Briggs Institute.
PsycINFO (CSA)
(article index)
1872-present. Covers both journal and book literature in psychology.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, and clinical specialists, this medical database provides indexing and full text for over 100 journals.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCOhost)
(article index, reference resource)
Easily understandable health and medical information from medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles, designed for the everyday consumer of health care information.
Digital Dissertations (ProQuest) - now ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
The online version of Dissertation Abstracts, with citations for dissertations from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities beginning in 1861, and master's theses beginning in 1980. For a fee, the full text of many of these titles is available in paper and microform formats, and titles published from 1997 forward are available in digitial format. (Check The Source catalog and Interlibrary Loan for availability at no charge.) In addition, see Dissertations & Theses @ University of Northern Colorado for free downloads of theses and dissertations completed at UNC beginning in 1997 (click the yellow Continue box to begin searching).
eHRAF World Cultures
(reference resource)
Produced by Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University, this cross-cultural database contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCOhost)
(tests)
1985-present. Information about measurement
instruments in the health and psychosocial sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
(tests)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, from the Buros Institute, contains descriptive information and reviews of commercially available standardized educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
Indexing and full text for nearly 100 journals, including more than 80 peer-reviewed titles covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
ProQuest Heath & Medical Complete
(article index)
Articles from leading health and medical journals, designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information, from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers.
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (2004-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1979-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
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