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Content: Database of open access, peer-reviewed journals specializing in biomedicine and life sciences.
Purpose: Database for science and medical students.
Special Features: Easily browse by journal, however, there is no advanced searching functionality.
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.
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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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
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.
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
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.
Content: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.
Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice.
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
Content: A point-of-care, evidence-based clinical resource.
Purpose: Useful for quick information about conditions, drugs, etc.
Special Features: You will be prompted to create an account the first time you log into UpToDate that will allow you to search UpToDate and save reports using the default windows in Chrome or Firefox. The registration link might not work if you use a Chrome incognito window or Firefox private window.
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more
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Search the Online Journal List by Category to browse titles by Nursing subject areas.
Browse the following journals to stay current:
Hospital and Health Services Administration
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration
Journal of Health Organization & Management
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
To search for clinical trials in PubMed, conduct a search on your topic. On the results page, use the Article types filter on the left to limit your search results to Clinical Trial.
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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To search for clinical trials in Cochrane Library, select the Trials tab on the navigation menu and click Search Trials (CENTRAL).
You can also conduct a search using your keywords and select the Trials tab from the results list.
To search for clinical trials in TRIP, select the Controlled Trials filter on the right after running a search with your keyword(s). NOTE: The Ongoing Clinical Trials filter is only available to PRO subscribers.
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.
To search for clinical trials in the OVID database, follow these steps.
1. Click on Edit Limits on the basic search page.
2. On the Limits page, check Clinical Trials and save by clicking the Customize Limits button.
3. Enter your keywords in the search box, select Clinical Trial under the Clinical Trials limiter, and click Search.
Content: APA database that offers full-text for journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation. View the APA PsycArticles Journal History for a complete coverage list.
Purpose: Important database for psychology, counseling, and education students.
Special Features: The database is updated bi-weekly all content is available in PDF and HTML formats.
To search for clinical trials in APA PsycArticles, click on the Advanced Search link and select Clinical Trial under Methodology in the Search Options. Enter your keywords into the search box and click Search.
Content: Journal article database from the American Psychological Association that indexes over 2,500 journals along with book chapters and dissertations.
Purpose: Provides a single source of vetted, authoritative research for users across the behavioral and social sciences.
Special Features: citations in APA Style®, updated bi-weekly, spans 600 years of content
To search for clinical trials in APA PsycInfo, click on the Advanced Search link and select Clinical Trial under Methodology in the Search Options. Enter your keywords into the search box and click Search.
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.
To search for clinical trials in CINAHL, select Clinical Trial under Publication Type in the Search Options. Enter your keywords into the search box and click Search.
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
To search for clinical trials in MEDLINE, select Clinical Trial under Publication Type in the Search Options. Enter your keywords into the search box and click Search.
MESH
The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. Use MeSH in CINAHL and PubMed to conduct research on medical/clinical topics.
Watch this video on using MeSH in PubMed.
Watch this video on using CINAHL's Subject Headings.
PICO
PICO is a format for developing a good clinical research question prior to starting one’s research. Use the PICO format in CINAHL and Cochrane to search for scholarly articles about interventions.
Read this flipbook on conducting a PICO search in Cochrane.
