Library Guides: Nursing: Articles &amp; Databases

Key Databases for Nursing

Use library databases to find journal articles. Database refers to an online, searchable index of citations for various materials, usually articles. These records will contain:

The citation for the article (title, authors, journal name, year of publication, etc.)
An abstract or summary of the article
Keywords or subject terms that identify the article's main topics
A link where you can get (or request) the full article

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CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete provides access to the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines dating back to 1937. Over 5000 journals are indexed including virtually all English-language nursing journals along with selected titles in biomedicine, alternative therapies, and consumer health. It also offers access to Evidence- Based Care Sheets, searchable cited references, and over 250 research instrument descriptions.
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's interface for MEDLINE, a database from the National Library of Medicine. It contains over 30 million citations from a variety of fields including nursing, clinical medicine, biology, bioengineering, health care administration, behavioral sciences, veterinary science, and much more.

Should You Use CINAHL or PubMed? This page discusses characteristics of both databases.

Additional Databases

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library contains the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers that offer different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Coronavirus Research Database
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
DynaMed with Isabel
An evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool updated daily. Includes clinical decision rules, practice guidelines, ICD-9/10 codes, American Hospital Formulary Service drug information summaries, and other medical reference information.
Embase
An Elsevier database that covers the same subjects as PubMed/MEDLINE, with an additional focus on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine. 1947 - present (selectively back to 1902).
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Comprehensive database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments, pulled from hundreds of health sciences and psychosocial science journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Sponsored by: Nevada Statewide Licensed Databases, through the IMLS
Provides access to hundreds of scholarly full-text journals in the nursing and allied health fields.
Lexicomp
A collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools providing access to clinical drug resources including: calculators, identifiers, interaction & overdose assessments, and patient education resources.
MEDLINE via Ovid
Updated daily, MEDLINE on the Ovid platform offers searchers seamless and up-to-the-minute access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records. Coverage dating back to 1946.
Merck Index Online
A fully searchable database with over 11,500 monographs on chemicals, drugs, and biologicals. It also contains historical records not available in the print edition. In addition, the Merck Index includes a reference of over 500 named organic reactions and reference tables that include common abbreviations, chemical structures, constants, and conversions.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Includes searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full-text coverage for older graduate works.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO provides abstracts and full text of thousands of journals from the 1800s to the present. Includes books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports about psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry, education, linguistics, neurosciences, pharmacology, and social work.
PsycTESTS
Provides access to published, unpublished, and commercially used psychological tests, measurements, and instruments. It offers links to supporting documentation, articles discussing instruments from conception to use, and, in many cases, full or partial access to the tests.
Web of Science
This collection contains over 18,000+ journals and includes: Science Citation Index, from 1965; Social Sciences Citation Index, from 1965; and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, from 1991. Search by subject, author, or cited reference.

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