Nursing Subject Guide

Articles

 

12 resources available
restricted - Restricted to WMU users open access - Open Access

To locate articles in Nursing, the following indexes, electronic journals, full text resources and databases should prove helpful.

Cochrane Library restricted Evidence-based medicine databases including systematic reviews and a controlled trials register on the effects of health care.

OVID Nursing Collection restricted Indexes hundreds of nursing journals and provides full text access to over forty of these journals. Searches can be limited just to full text or review articles. Updated daily.

STAT!Ref Online Library restricted This is a collection of online health sciences texts including clinical texts, drug information, general practice and specialized medicine titles. Search results are displayed as citations, which lead to the full-text, complete with tables, graphics and links. STAT!Ref also includes databases such as MedCalc3000, Point-of-care tools and learning resources. This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) restricted Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 560 of them. Some go back as far as 1937. Updated weekly.

Mosby's Nursing Consult restricted Drug information, patient handouts, medical journals, health reference books, nursing news, clinical updates and more.

PsycINFO restricted Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2007 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)

ERIC restricted
The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial

Medline (FirstSearch) restricted The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.

  • RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


PubMed open access Is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology.  Free citations and abstracts, limited full text. Coverage: 1966 - present. Updated weekly.

Tips for using PubMed effectively are found in the NLM PubMed tutorial and UFL PubMed tutorial.



Medline Plus restricted Health information from the National Library of Medicine presented accessibly for professionals and non-professionals.

MedscapeOne time registration required. Free access to Medline, and access to full-text medical articles.

List of Journals Indexed for Medline
The list is a PDF file that includes an alphabetic list of journals by abbreviated title. Click through the Terms and Conditions page to get to it.

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