LibGuides: NSG422: Nursing Research: Accessing E-Books

Accessing E-Books

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Content: Repository of multi-disciplinary scholarly, open access, peer-reviewed books.
Purpose: A single point of reference for finding open access, scholarly books online.
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EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Content: A multidisciplinary ebook collection downloadable for offline reading powered by EBSCO.
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Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Content: Comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Purpose: Provides background reading on health issues. Check the "Refereed publications" box to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles.
Special Features: A broad collection of premier full-text reference works, Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter, streaming video, audio, and images
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Health and Wellness Resource Center (GALE) provides access to articles, medical encyclopedias, pamphlets, and videos on health, fitness, and nutrition.
IGI Global InfoSci Books This link opens in a new window
Content: Books, chapters, and peer-reviewed content about a diverse range of topics.
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JSTOR Open Content This link opens in a new window
Content: Open-access articles and book chapters covering arts, humanities, business, education, government, health, medicine, and psychology.
Purpose: Provides users with open-access content ranging from peer-reviewed literature to books.
Special Features: Features JSTOR Daily, which combines news trends with scholarly literature and includes links to open-access works.
NavigatorSearch This link opens in a new window
Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more.
Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search.
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Project Gutenberg Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
Open access e-book database. Use to find primary sources in e-book format including epub and kindle functioning. Includes older works.
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
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Selected Books

Qualitative Research Methods for Nurses by Robert Dingwall; Karen Staniland
ISBN: 9781446248751
Publication Date: 2020-12-16
Covering the entire research process - from understanding theory to writing up your project - this book provides you with an easy-to-follow introduction to qualitative methods in nursing and healthcare.
Introduction to Nursing Research by Carol Boswell; Sharon Cannon
ISBN: 9781284149791
Publication Date: 2018-12-31
Introduction to Nursing Research: Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice, Fifth Edition emphasizes EBP as a foundation for safe and effective health care. The text focuses on the connection between research and evidence based practice as related to the IOM, Macy report, Carnegie report, and federal health bill as appropriate. In addition, the Fifth Edition also discusses the impact of Magnet hospitals on research utilization, evidence-based practice, and moving evidence into practice.
The Application of Content Analysis in Nursing Science Research by Kristina Mikkonen (Editor); Helvi Kyngas (Editor); Maria Kaariainen (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030301989
Publication Date: 2019-11-14
This book provides principles on content analysis and its application into development of nursing theory. It offers clear guidance to students, lecturers and researchers to gain a deeper understanding of the method of content analysis, its implementation into their own research and criteria of trustworthiness evaluation.
Nursing and Health Interventions by Souraya Sidani; Carrie Jo Braden
ISBN: 9781119610120
Publication Date: 2021-04-19
Nursing and Health Interventions covers the conceptual, empirical, and practical knowledge required for engaging in intervention research. This revised edition provides step-by-step guidance on the complex process of intervention development and methods for developing, delivering, evaluating and implementing intervention, supported by a wealth of examples.
Innovative Nursing Care by Klavdija Čuček Trifkovič (Editor); Mateja Lorber (Editor); Natasa Mlinar Reljić (Editor); Gregor Stiglic (Editor)
ISBN: 9783110785920
Publication Date: 2023-01-30
A mix of well-grounded education and innovative research is needed, where the first provides an understanding of best nursing practice care delivery and the second helps nurses determine best practices and improve nursing care.