LibGuides: Nursing: Articles

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The databases below are recommended by the Research Librarian for Nursing.

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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.
MEDLINE
Citations to articles in medical journals.

Subjects include biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
PubMed Central
PubMed comprises of citations for biomedical journal articles from MEDLINE (or queued to be included in MEDLINE in the future), other life science journals, and selected medical books.

The Stan State library link adds a code (?otool=cacsuslib) to tell PubMed to add a Find It! link to let you access Stan State library subscriptions or an Interlibrary Loan request form for an article.

Additional Nursing Databases for Your Research

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
ScienceDirect
Full-text of articles published in 900+ selected Elsevier journals (1998 - present).

Providing access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and health journals that span major scientific disciplines. Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made free for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the authors' choice of user license.
General Science Full Text
General Science Full Text™ provides full text from periodicals dating back to 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for periodicals back to 1984.

Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more.
Web of Science
A curated collection of peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals) in science, social sciences, and humanities disciplines. Conference proceedings and book data are also available.
Wiley Online
Extensive multidisciplinary collections with access to articles from journals, books, and multi-volume reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Finding and accessing a specific journal

To determine if the university library has a specific journal:

Go to the library homepage.
Choose the OneSearch Advanced Search option (under the OneSearch box).
On the Advanced Search screen, choose the OneSearch Journal Search (at the top of the page).
Type in the name of the journal (or the ISSN).
If the library owns the journal, there should be a record and a link to the journal online.

Of the 60,000 periodicals/journals, almost all of them are available online. (Only 160 are only available in print.)

Journals Available via the University Library

If you're looking for journal articles on your topic, search an article database like CINAHL Plus with Full-Text (or other resources listed under Finding Articles).

Lists and links of periodicals from the OneSearch catalog:

Nursing Journals
Lists from the OneSearch catalog of library subscriptions to selected online journals related to nursing.
Health Sciences Journals
Library subscriptions to online journals in medicine, public health, and related fields (listed by title of the journal).

Specific collections with significant nursing journal content:

Ovid Nursing Full-Text
Full text of 40 current LWW nursing journals and older content from Kluwer journals.

Science Direct
Online research journals published by Elsevier. Library subscribes to 700+ titles, including 100 in nursing and related health fields.
Wiley Online
Library subscriptions to 60+ academic Nursing journals.

Getting the Text of Articles

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.

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