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Guide to resources that are useful when it comes to the study and practice of nursing
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Literature Databases

  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text  
      
    Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
  • PubMed/MEDLINE  
      
    The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
  • APA PsycNet/ PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)  
      
    APA database of abstracts for psychological literature. Includes journals, dissertations, reports, book chapters, and other scholarly documents.
  • Cochrane Library
    Database of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. Includes Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Controlled Trials Register, and Review Methodology.
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    Public database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Includes summaries, links to full-text when available, tools for comparison, glossary, and PDA downloads.
  • First Consult
    Evidence-based primary care information designed to be used at point-of-care. Tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical conditions, patient education and procedures skills review.
  • Dissertations and Theses Full Text (Proquest)
    Coverage: (1637 - present) Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.
  • Web of Science  
      
    Citation databases including Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index for searches by cited reference, topic, and author.
  • Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library
    Library includes access to the Sigma Theta Tau's Registry of Nursing Research
  • AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine  
      
    Citations and abstracts to journal articles in complementary medicine, palliative care, occupational therapy, rehabilitation and other professions allied to medicine.
  • TRIP Database-Clinical Search Engine
    TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet
  • Google Scholar
    Scholarly literature crawled by Google.

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