Research Hub: Nursing: Research Databases

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CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Some full text.
Nursing Collection@OVID This link opens in a new window
Full text of 48 core nursing journals (1995-).
Access limited to 17 simultaneous users among 15 schools.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly health resources, many with full text.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
The strongest database in medicine. Also strong in biology, chemistry, and neuroscience.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
More than 250 leading full text journals in nursing and allied health.

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Access is limited to three users at a time.
Cochrane Summaries This link opens in a new window
Access to the abstracts and, when available, the plain language summaries of all Cochrane systematic reviews.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
Notes: After logging in with your StarID, you will be prompted to create a separate, free account with UpTo Date.
Users must log-in from on- campus at least once every 90 days to verify their continued affiliation with the university.
More info: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/uptodate/resources/maintaining-access
Concise topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. Over 10,500 topics in 22 specialties.

Trip Medical Database
The Trip database is a metasearch of medical research. You can filter by research type, including systematic reviews and randomized control trials.
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The Trip database is often used to verify that a review is comprehensive.
Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
The Oxford Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine produces systematic reviews and other synthesized studies of data and research.

ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles, mostly in the sciences, though some social sciences. Citations from 1980. Some full text starting in 1993, more full text from 1997.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Articles are detailed reviews of a particular topic, often discussing hundreds of recent studies. Most of our access is in biology, chemistry, medicine, and engineering.
Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Search all Taylor and Francis Journals, with citations and abstracts. Full text is occasionally available.

PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
More than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 42 journals published by the APA and allied organizations from 1988, with earlier years in production.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
International literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Alt Health Watch This link opens in a new window
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Focuses on the complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Some full text.
Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford) This link opens in a new window
A continuously updated online collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers (NASW Press) and Oxford University Press (OUP). Over 800 articles and 200 biographies.
Sports Medicine & Education Index (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Coverage from 1970. No full text.

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