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Nursing Journal Article IndexesUse these databases to find journal articles and other research materials in Nursing. Key Indexes for NursingCINAHL Plus with Full-Text (1937 - Current)
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is the premier index for searching the nursing literature and now covers 1937 to present. Special features include: full-text of most state nursing journals, state nurse practice acts, and patient education materials. Cited references, descriptions of research instruments, and critical paths are being added. Updated monthly.It links to over 550 full-text journals and includes Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons.
MEDLINE -Complete (1950 - Current)
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. This database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
MEDLINE -Current (2002 - Current)
The current file for MEDLINE, the premier index for medicine, nursing, and other health care professions. This is the best MEDLINE file to search if only current information is needed.
MEDLINE 1950-1965 (Old MEDLINE)
International index for medical literature, produced by the National Library of Medicine. Addresses all aspects of medicine and health care and offers citations originally found in printed indexes that date from 1950-1965. No abstracts are available. See "MEDLINE 2000- (current)" or "MEDLINE 1966- (complete)" for information published since 1965.
PubMed (1966 - Current)
PubMed provides free, worldwide access to MEDLINE. It also contains links to the full-text versions of articles at participating publishers' Web sites and access to PREMEDLINE basic citation information and abstracts before full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE. New records are added to PREMEDLINE daily.
Specialized Health Services IndexesAgeline (1978 - Current)
Provides extensive coverage of age and age-related issues. Updated 3 times per year.
Alt-HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full-text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, and other sources.
CAM on PubMed
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) partnered to create this database, which is a subset of PubMed.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is comprised of several databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
CHID is a bibliographic database produced by Federal health-related agencies. It provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. 12 major topical areas are covered, each of which can be searched separately. Updated quarterly.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information including medical encyclopedias, popular reference books and magazine articles.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. Provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
ETOH Database
The most comprehensive online bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. ETOH is updated monthly and contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature. A thesaurus is available for searching alcohol and other drug terms including a subset index of language used in the ETOH database.
ETOH Thesaurus Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) (1985 - Current)
Provides information about articles on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes and manuals, rating scales and other measurement instruments in the fields of health, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Health Services and Sciences Research Resources
"The HSRR database contains descriptions of about 300 research datasets, over 55 instruments/indices, and more than 20 software applications that are frequently used in health services research and in the behavioral and social sciences. These research-oriented tools may be used to assess data variables and data collection methodologies."
Health Source (consumer edition)
This database covers many consumer health topics involving the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. It features searchable full-text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
List of journals included. Health Source (nursing/academic edition)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on nursing and allied health, plus indexing for more than 800 journals. In addition, this database includes a special resource called Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.
Human Nutrition Online (1990 - Current)
Provides access to abstracts relevant to human nutrition selected from more than 1,000 academic journals, books, reports and conferences published worldwide. Areas of human nutrition include food techniques; foods; physiology and biochemistry; nutrition and health; and clinical nutrition. Online version of Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A. Human and Experimental.
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A. Human Nutrition (1977-2003) Images.MD
Features more than 48,000 high-quality medical images, each one accompanied by authoritative text from 2000 of the world’s leading medical experts. More than 90 subject collections can be found on the site ranging from allergies to cardiology, from neurology to urology, making this a valuable resource for all those in the health sciences.
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
Database provides patient advisory leaflets for over 1,450 medications and natural products, plus 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications.
MedicLatina (1950 - Current)
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. This database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
Natural & Alternative Treatments
This database provides accurate, unbiased information on natural health, including herbs and supplements; conditions; drug interactions; alternative therapies; and homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. The more than 12,000 studies have been reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists to insure the provision of reliable information without exaggeration or misrepresentation.
PsycINFO - Current File (1967 - Current)
Covers the literature of psychology and related disciplines from an extensive collection of journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Updated weekly.
PsycINFO - Historical File (1887 - 1966)
Covers the literature of psychology and related disciplines from an extensive collection of journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations.
REHABDATA
REHABDATA is produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center and is freely available on the Web. "The main file, 1997-present, describes over 12,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities."
Other Useful IndexesAcademic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated daily.
List of journals included. Alternative Health News Online
Alternative Health News Online, Inc. provides this site for the latest health news and resources in alternative medicine. Some sections are updated daily. Questions can be sent to Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing.
Business Source Complete
Has full text for more than 10,300 serials. Contains scholarly publications covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and MIS. Additional materials include country economic reports, case studies company profiles, SWOT analyses and industry reports. Coverage varies by title, but in general dates back to the mid 1990s. Updated daily.
List of journals included. Citation Indexes (1980 - Current)
The database is comprised of three multidisciplinary sections covering the journal literature in the areas of the arts & humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Nursing information largely falls within the social sciences category. A unique feature of the database is the capability to search by cited references. Updated weekly.
Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) (1861 - Current)
Includes citations for dissertations dating from the first U.S. dissertation issued in 1861. Contains abstracts for dissertations from 1980 to the present and for master's theses from 1988 forward. The work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities are also included. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.
EBSCO databases
Menu of databases provided via EBSCO publishing. Full-text is available for a number of journals. From this menu it is possible to search across multiple databases.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
Full-text coverage of selected journals in all scholarly areas, including nursing, patient care, and clinical medicine. This site is searchable. Also, it is possible to set a profile to receive automatic alerts of new articles that match your interests.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic archive of complete journal backruns, current to within 2 to 5 years. The collections include: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Business Collection, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature. For Kent State University, students and faculty now have access to 381 JSTOR journals representing over 2 million articles.
LexisNexis Academic
Contains the full-text of newspapers for the past 20 years, federal and state case law and legislative materials, law reviews, company news and financial information, medical and health information, general information sources and much more. Updates and coverage vary by section.
LexisNexis Congressional
Brings together a vast amount of information published by and about Congress including bills, laws, regulations, hearings, and committee reports to name only a few. Many of the documents are available full text. Many of the documents are available full text and are indexed back to 1789. Update and coverage varies with section.
PapersFirst (1993 - Current)
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the The British Library Document Supply Centre's collection. Updated monthly.
ProceedingsFirst (1993 - Current)
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at one conference. ProceedingsFirst provides access to the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of conference proceedings. Updated monthly.
WorldCat
WorldCat aids researchers in finding materials in virtually any subject area that are held in thousands of libraries worldwide. If you identify materials in WorldCat that are not available locally or in Ohio, place a request with Interlibrary Loan which will try to borrow a copy for your use.
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