Research Guides: Nursing: Where to Search

Best Nursing Databases

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers a wide range of topics including nursing, bio-medicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines This resource offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more..
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Click the red star for a brief tutorial. The Cochrane Library is the gold standard for evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. It is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. (See more information for a detailed explanation of each).
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. The CDSR includes Cochrane Reviews (the systematic reviews) and protocols for Cochrane Reviews as well as editorials. The CDSR also has occasional supplements. The CDSR is updated regularly as Cochrane Reviews are published ‘when ready’ and form monthly issues; see publication schedule.

The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a highly concentrated source of reports of randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials. The majority of CENTRAL records are taken from bibliographic databases (mainly MEDLINE and Embase), but records are also derived from other published and unpublished sources. In addition to bibliographic details (author, source, year, etc.) CENTRAL records will often include an abstract (a summary of the article). They do not contain the full text of the article.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
More than 830 journals are reviewed and abstracted here, 350 of which are available in full-text. About 280 of the titles are peer reviewed. This database covers both the nursing and the allied health literature.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Click the red star for a tutorial on using the Advanced Search Builder in PubMed.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, comprises over 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. It is global in its scope of coverage and it ranks as the best sources for medical and life science information.

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Related Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
The largest ,of our library databases, this one covers many different disciplines. About 60% of the content is available in full-text.
Nursing Reference Center This link opens in a new window
- is a point-of-care reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. This database offers staff nurses, nurse administration, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full text documents. Nursing Reference Center provides in-depth content from top publishers covering areas including conditions & diseases, patient education resources, drug information, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.
Provides access to embedded HTML copies of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, AHFS Essentials, Nursing Diagnosis Manual, additional book titles, and a collection of Research Instruments under the Practice Resources tab.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Famous for its bibliographic content focused on criminal justice and psychology, this database also contains significant content from the biological and health sciences. All database content is taken from journals published by Sage.
Trip Database This link opens in a new window
this database has evolved into a sophisticated tool for locating the highest possible evidence with which to inform clinical decisions, using the principles of evidence-based medicine.
Wiley Online Library: Journals This link opens in a new window
Click the red star for a tutorial reviewing how to run an Advanced Search in the Wiley Online Library. The library contains over 1,600 journals covering a broad and multidisciplinary collection of online resources: nursing, law & criminology, humanities, psychology, social and behavioral sciences, business, economics, finance, accounting and more.

Please Note: Trexler Library does not subscribe to ebooks in the Wiley Online Library. Items available in full text are denoted by an open padlock icon.
Also See:
The Cochrane Library

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