Nursing

Key Databases

CINAHL with Full Text
Search nearly 3,000 journals in nursing and allied health. Contains full text for approximately 600 journals, though additional full text may be available in other databases

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Database designed for researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to 330 full-text journals, focusing on wide range of medical topics

Journals @ Ovid
Full text access to peer-reviewed journals covering nursing administration, nursing education, and nursing research

BioMed Central (BMC)
A large collection of open access journals in biology, health science, and medicine

ProQuest Research Library: Health & Medicine
This subset of the ProQuest Research Library database includes journals that cover nursing, allied health, medicine, and pharmacology.

National Library of Medicine

Published by the National Institute of Health, NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology. There are four databases available to the public:

For a complete understanding of these three databases go to the MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? Fact Sheet.


Websites


Other Resources

Science Direct
Full text access to hundreds of scholarly nursing and medical journals

National Academies Press
Publishes books and workshop proceedings for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Access Medicine
Large collection of books, review questions, videos, podcasts, graphics, and 3-D models across medicine, public health, and biology 

Nursing in Digital Commons
Free articles and research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Streaming Videos

Films on Demand: Health and Medicine Videos
Over 3100 videos on health, medicine and related fields

Books

Search Online Catalog
Interlibrary Borrowing
eBook Resources

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Prescription Drugs (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Features entries on the most commonly prescribed drugs. It describes potential side effects, drug and food interactions, recommended dosages, and warnings/precautions

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Provides more than 1,230 entries covering topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, contemporary health care issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment

Human Diseases and Conditions (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Presents information on numerous diseases and conditions. Articles include a definition of the disease or condition, an explanation of how it works in the body, information on causes, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment or cure, and lifestyles

Citing Sources

AMA Citation Guide
APA Citation Guide
Zotero
A citation generator and management tool, Zotero can help you keep all of your citation information together and generate a bibliography for you