LibGuides: Nursing: Nursing Journals

Finding Journal Articles

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 the articles section of the Nursing guide.)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The CINAHL database is a tool to search for individual articles published in nursing journals. It is the library's primary subscription access to over 700 journals.

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.

Nursing Journals Available via the University Library

Lists and links of Nursing 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 This link opens in a new window
Full text of 40 current LWW nursing journals and older content from Kluwer journals.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Online research journals published by Elsevier. Library subscribes to 700+ titles, including 100 in nursing and related health fields.

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.
Wiley Online This link opens in a new window
Library subscriptions to 60+ academic Nursing journals.

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.)