LibGuides: NURS 2865: Pathopharmacology: Articles

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

CINAHL® Plus is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL® Plus is a core research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

CINAHL® Plus also provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937.

Concept to Keywords Search Tips:

Instead of searching for "natural language," break down your topic into main concepts.
Place each concept in a separate line in the CINAHL Advanced Search.
If you receive few results, changed/adjust the terms you use for one of your concepts.
Use scientific/professional terms when possible.
Use terms from the Major Subject Headings, title or abstract to increase results.
Example:
- Vancomycin AND pathopharmacology - zero results
- Vancomycin AND pharmacology - 91 results
- Vancomycin AND nephrology - 14 results
- Vancomycin AND nephrology - 531 results
- Vancomycin Administration and Dosage AND kidney - 193 results

CINAHL tips:

Limit to peer-reviewed (90% of articles in CINAHL)
Limit to full-text
- This is ffull-text available via a Stan State EBSCO subscription.
- Other full-text may be immediately available via "Find It!" button.
Full-text:
- Access options - usually means full-text is available by clicking on Access Options button
- Search for full-text
  - Library may have full-text via another / non-EBSCO source.
  - Click "Search for Full-text" button to search OneSearch
    - OneSearch may link to full-text immediately online.
    - OneSearch may link to request button (PDF usually delivered in 1 to 3 days).

Searching CINAHL for Pathopharmacology / Pharmacology

To focus search, use terms in subject headings:

Vancomycin Administration and Dosage AND kidney - 193 results
In advanced search, change All Fields to subject:
- Vancomycin Administration and Dosage (Subject - SU) AND kidney (SUBJECT SU) - 156 resutls
156 results should be articles focused on dosage of Vancomycin and effect on kidneys

MEDLINE (ProQuest)
National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 29 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with (and research is traceable through) NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

To get the full-text of articles, use the "Find It" button to access CSU Stanislaus library article sources and Get It services.

Tips for Searching OneSearch for Nursing Articles:

Be sure you are searching Articles, Everything or CSU Collections Beyond
On the search results screen:
- Be sure to limit your search to Articles and Peer Reviewed Journals
- If you have too many results from non-Nursing journals, limit to Nursing under Subject.

Searching a database will provide citations to scholarly journal articles and other scientific research.

To access the full-article, look for links to:

If there are no full-text links, use Find It! to see if article is available in another library subscription.