Research Guides: Nursing: Find articles

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Use this to build an efficient and effective strategy to find relevant literature.

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Databases: use these to find subject-specific info

Nursing-specific databases

Remember each nursing database contains unique content; if you search just one database, you are missing relevant sources

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
--find literature on nursing, allied health, consumer health, health administration and related topics
Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
- find articles about nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine. Also features multicultural reports from CultureVision. Find tips on searching this database effectively here: proquest.libguides.com/pqnahs
Ovid Emcare This link opens in a new window
- Find international literature on nursing, allied health, midwifery, medicine, health care and related topics.
- Permitted Uses

Health and biomedical databases

use these for broader coverage of health topics

MEDLINE - via OVID This link opens in a new window
Find articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, and other areas of health care.
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MEDLINE - via Web of Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Find articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry and other areas of health care
Embase This link opens in a new window
- Comprehensive biomedical database including more than 30 million records from more than 8,500 journals.
- Notable coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology as well as robust international content.
- Coverage: 1974-current
- Permitted Uses
Ovid Healthstar This link opens in a new window
-- find articles about all aspects of health care delivery, including patient outcomes, effectiveness of procedures, administration and planning, human resources, finances and more
Basic Search Guide
Advanced Search: Keyword Searching
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Evidence syntheses databases

Use these to find systematic reviews and meta-analyses on health topics

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews EBM Reviews This link opens in a new window
Find full-text systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions. Prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating health-related systematic reviews.
Evidence-Based Medical Reviews This link opens in a new window
-- find systematic reviews and other evidence-based literature useful for clinical research. Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, American College of Physicians Journal Club, and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness.
Health Evidence This link opens in a new window
- Find systematic reviews of public health interventions such as smoking cessation or obesity prevention programs.
- Terms of Use from Publisher Site

Other relevant subject databases

Use these to find literature on topics important to Nursing e.g. mental health

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
-- find articles about psychology, social work, mental health, neuroscience and nursing
Education Source This link opens in a new window
find articles on all fields of education, including health education
ProQuest Sociology Collection This link opens in a new window
-- find articles from the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more
AgeLine This link opens in a new window
- Find literature related to aging and people over 50 in this key multidisciplinary resource for social gerontology research.
- Permitted Uses
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Find literature related to human sexuality, sexual orientation and gender diversity

Google Scholar

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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