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Article Databases
- CINAHL Plus This link opens in a new windowFull text articles from allied health journals, including nursing and 17 allied health disciplines.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
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This database contains more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. - OneSearch This link opens in a new windowThis research tool searches the library's resources, including books, ebooks, magazines, journals and newspapers in one powerful search.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
- Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowThis database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Medical Journals Electronic Access
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) This link opens in a new windowThis international peer-reviewed general medical journal is the most widely circulated general medical journal in the world.
- New England Journal of Medicine This link opens in a new windowThe most widely read and influential medical journal in the world. Widely cited in journals of all medical specialties, the peer reviewed original articles are aimed at those interested in medical practice.
Research Database Tutorials
- CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching TutorialsThis tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
The following quick, interactive PubMed tutorials from the National Library of Medicine will have you confidently searching PubMed in no time!
- PubMed: Find Articles on a TopicA brief tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed.
- PubMed: Get the full text for an articleA brief tutorial on how to get the full text for an article cited in PubMed.
- Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice TutorialWhen conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
- What is in PubMed?Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there.
- PubMed - Find a Systematic ReviewA systematic Review article is one that fits the criteria for Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)