Respiratory Care
This guide provides a list of Library resources that might be helpful to students in the Respiratory Care program.
Article Databases
These database will search a multitude of health journals and magazines. They may link out to full-text articles or may provide a citation and abstract only and you may need to request full-text articles through interlibrary loan.
- 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 (may need to request articles through interlibrary loan).
- Cochrane LibraryThe Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Material may need to requested through interlibrary loan.
- 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.
- 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.
Full Text Respiratory Journals available in CINAHL Plus Database
Search or browse these respiratory care journals independently using the links below. Use the "Search Within this publication" link to search the the specific journal or browse issues using the dates in the right sidebar.
- Respiratory CareProvides information about respiratory disease, research, clinical and laboratory practice, education, and patient care science. Journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care.
- Respiratory ResearchRespiratory Research publishes high-quality clinical and basic research, review and commentary articles on all aspects of respiratory medicine and related diseases.
- RT: The Journal for Respiratory Care PractitionersProvides clinical information, updates on trends, practical insights, business tips, and news on the latest product and services.
- Canadian Journal of Respiratory TherapyRepresents the interests of respiratory therapists and acts as an educational dissemination tool.
Digital Journals (full-text)
- 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.
- 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.
Respiratory Care Journals Indexed in CINAHL Plus Database
These Journals are searchable through the CINAHL database, but full text of the article is not available on demand. Articles may be request through interlibrary loan, use the button below (this is a free service, delivery takes about 1 week).
- American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care MedicineFocuses on human biology and disease, as well as animal and in vitro studies that contribute to the understanding of pathophysiology and treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system and critically ill patients.
- ChestThe journal for pulmonologists, cardiologists, cardiologists, cardiothoratcic surgeons and related specialists.
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)