Research Guides: Nursing Guide: Articles

Sources to Avoid

Per Dr. Short:

"Nursing (year), Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, RN, and websites are not considered professional nursing journals and cannot be used as such for this bibliography assignment. Also, no editorials, abstracts without the full text article, reprints from prior publications, blogs, advertisements, or non-refereed sources are allowed."

Sugggested Databases

CINAHL Complete
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World's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. Includes full text for hundreds of journals and books/monographs as well as indexing for more than 5,000 journals and the full text of more than 130 Evidence-Based Care Sheets.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost Web)
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Find articles about biomedical, health, and biological topics. Includes indexing for 5,000 of the world's leading biomedical journals.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium
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Covers nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine. 1,050 journal titles (with over 875 titles in full-text), 12,300 full text dissertations, eBooks, evidence-based nursing content from The Joanna Briggs Institute, multicultural reports from CultureVision, study paths and the Alexander Street Press Nursing Education in Video streaming video collection.
Academic Search Ultimate
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A great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic. It contains a large number of journals, the majority of which are peer-reviewed, from numerous subject areas and goes as far back as 1865.
PubMed
Citations and full-text for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books.

Other Suggested Databases

Cochrane Library
Collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
UpToDate
Covers over 10,000 clinical topics in over 20 medical specialties and includes links to fulltext articles, drugs, and drug interaction databases, and medical calculators.
Bates' Visual Guide
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Features head-to-toe and systems physical exam videos completely shot with an emphasis on clinical accuracy and patient care.
PsycINFO
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A comprehensive, international database covering the academic, research and practice literature in over 1,900 leading psychological, psychiatric, and related publications.

Permanent/Perisistent Links

You may need to send the link for an article to group members or to your professor. Links to database articles are not always permanent - generally the url that you are accustomed to seeing at the top of the page is not permanent.

In EBSCOhost, persistent or permanent links are called Permalinks. Permalink appears in the Tools bar on the right when you have clicked on an article's title
A persistent article link may look something like this: https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.eku.edu/docview/1750965417?accountid=10628
For information on other databases, consult this online resource: https://libguides.eku.edu/linksandmore

Is this confusing? No worries - If you need the permanent link to an article, contact your library liaison, Karen.Gilbert@eku.edu

Find Full Text from a Citation

If you already have citation information (author, journal title, volume, issue, etc.) to a particular article, you can enter the information into the Citation Linker to locate the article.

Nursing Guide

Sources to Avoid

Sugggested Databases

Other Suggested Databases

Permanent/Perisistent Links

You may need to send the link for an article to group members or to your professor. Links to database articles are not always permanent - generally the url that you are accustomed to seeing at the top of the page is not permanent.

In EBSCOhost, persistent or permanent links are called Permalinks. Permalink appears in the Tools bar on the right when you have clicked on an article's title

A persistent article link may look something like this: https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.eku.edu/docview/1750965417?accountid=10628

For information on other databases, consult this online resource: https://libguides.eku.edu/linksandmore

Find Full Text from a Citation

Library Username and Password

The "Find Full Text" Link

Library Express