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Databases by Subject: Nursing

 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text, provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 930 journals are also included. CINAHL with Full Text provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.
 
CINAHL OVID - Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
index of nursing journals, professional publications, and nursing standards and instruments. Includes full text links to Copley's Ovid journal subscriptions Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

 
Dissertations and Theses Full Text
The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Dissertations from 1997 to present are available in full-text PDF format.

EBM Reviews - Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
Evidence Based Medical Reviews. Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

EBM Reviews - Best Evidence
Evidence Based Medical Reviews. Covers 1991 - present. Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database
Evidence Based Medical Reviews. Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

Emerald
Full text access to MCB University Press journals. Topics covered are management, accounting and engineering (mainly industrial).
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Launched in 1998, the purpose of Evidence-Based Mental Health is to alert clinicians working in the field of mental health to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment (including specific interventions and systems of care), diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis/outcome research, quality improvement, continuing education, economic evaluation, and qualitative research.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Contains descriptions of instruments of use in assessing health and behavior. Includes questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales and tests. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

Health Source Plus Nursing (EBSCO)
Links to a number of alternative and consumer health databases as well as a full-text database of about 480 scholarly health and nursing journals

Journals@Ovid
Journal index which covers all subjects, with an emphasis on biomedical and allied health topics. The full-text is searchable for all journals, but only a few will allow full-text viewing.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
a full-text database of over 5,000 newspapers, magazines, wire services, business publications and company information along with basic legal and medical resources.
 
Major Reference Sources in Nursing
An annotated guide to nursing, allied health, and medical resources available at Copley Library. This guide was developed by Karen Sharpe, Copley Library's nursing bibliographer.

MEDLINE via Ovid
MEDLINE is the major database on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of cell and molecular biology topics. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

MEDLINE via PubMed
MEDLINE is the major database on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of cell and molecular biology topics. Must capitalize search operators (that is, AND, OR and NOT) when using PubMed

Nursing Resources on the World Wide Web
A selective guide to nursing resources available on the Web developed by Karen Sharpe, Copley Library's nursing bibliographer. This guide can also be (downloaded in PDF format).
 

Ovid databases
Access the complete listing of databases available through Ovid, including ERIC, CINAHL, Journals@Ovid, and Medline.
PsycARTICLES®
PsycARTICLES® contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

 

PsycCRITIQUES™
PsycCRITIQUES™, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES also includes a searchable backfile of more than 5,400 reviews dating back to 1995. PsycCRITIQUES replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
includes over 460 full text titles in psychology, mental health, and behavioral sciences. Most of the journals are peer-reviewed. For more comprehensive coverage in this area, use the PsycINFO database.
PsycINFO
Includes psychology and relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, animal behavior, and organizational behavior. Allows you to limit to USD holdings and includes links to full-text for some articles.

ScienceDirect
Provides access to over one million full-text articles in all fields of science, from 1995 to the present. Includes over 1,200 journal titles.

Utilizing OVID Databases in Library Research
Instructions on how to use the OVID system to search databases such as CINAHL, HAPI and Medline.