LibGuides: NSG460 &amp; NSG460A: Community Healthcare: Finding Articles

Finding Full-Text

Finding full-text is easy if you know what you're looking for (refer to image below):

In most databases you can simply limit to ONLY articles that have full-text available.
In NavigatorSearch and other EBSCO databases, you can select the "Click to look for full text" option under an article to see if it is available in another library database.
Articles with PDF full text availability will show up with the "PDF Full Text" icon under the article record.

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NavigatorSearch

Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more

Research Best Bets

To see all NU Library Databases, go to the A-Z Database List.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.
Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.
Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.
Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.
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- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
- Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
- Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Content: EBSCO database of nursing and allied health journals with nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Purpose: Informs users about topics such as pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, and more.
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MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.
Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics
Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles
Ovid Nursing Full Text PLUS This link opens in a new window
Content: Medical database covering nursing, allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.
Purpose: Provides information about all topics relevant to nursing and nursing education
Special Features: Advanced search functions including MESH capability.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports.
Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics
Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality

Interlibrary Loan

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NU Interlibrary Loan Service

Electronically request and receive articles, book chapters, or other resources when unavailable in full-text from the NU Library.