LibGuides: Nursing: Find Articles and Databases

Recommended Research Databases

CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL is the premier source for nursing and allied health journals, with full text for more than 1,300 journals and special features such as evidence-based care sheets and quick lessons.
PubMed
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It facilitates searching across several NLM resources, including MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and Bookshelf. Coverage in this database extends from the 1940s to the present day.

MEDLINE (Integrated with Web of Science)
Citations from approximately 4,800 worldwide journals with approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences and a concentration on biomedicine. Most of what's offered in Medline is covered by PubMed.
Medline Plus
An open-access database of health information geared toward the public, patients and families, with reliable information from the National Library of Medicine (connected with the more scholarly databases, PubMed and Medline)
CDC Stacks
Free archive of medical research and literature produced by CDC; major collections include Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC Guidelines and Recommendations, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Preventing Chronic Disease, Reproductive Health Surveys, Influenza Surveillance Reports, and more

Selection of Core Journals

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Special Resource: Grey Literature

Grey literature includes ongoing clinical trials, dissertations and theses, conference papers, and other unpublished materials. Findings here could be important to your research question, so it is a good idea to search for them. You can access some grey literature through these resources:

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Recommended Research Databases

Selection of Core Journals

Special Resource: Grey Literature