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Nursing Research Tools
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Beginning Your Research:
| netLibrary |
| Provides access to a collection of e-books that users can browse or read online or download to read offline. Browsing is freely available; to read or download a book you need to set up a personal account within netLibrary. |
| LocatorPlus® |
| The National Library of Medicine's Catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools. |
| WorldCat |
| Over 30 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries in the U.S.A., Canada and Britain. Updated daily. |
For journal articles use:
| CINAHL |
| A resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, which provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications. CINAHL offers complete coverage of English-language publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, and access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Full text material includes 58 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, clinical trials. EBSCOhost. This resource has been made available through a generous gift of the Spencer S. Eccles family. |
| PubMed |
| Also known as PubMed MEDLINE, is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 12 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. |
| LWW Collection on Journals @ OVID |
| 140 clinical journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Provided by the Nursing Initiative of the Utah Academic Library Consortium. |
| PsycINFO via Ebscohost. |
| contains citations and summaries from the world's serial and book literature in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 30 languages. |
| LexisNexis Academic |
| provides access to a wide range of current news, business, legal, and reference information. Search is of title, byline and lead paragraph; the full text is retrieved. |
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