Information Resources for Nursing and Health

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• CINAHL (EBSCOHost)
  • Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature is the most comprehensive index available for nursing and related fields. 1982 - present. Pre-CINAHL is a companion database that provides current awareness of new journal articles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• PubMed - Medline
  • Index to 4,800+ journals in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
• Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCOhost)
  • Index to alternative and complimentary health therapies, including full text from journals, newsletters, newspapers and pamphlets. 1978- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.).
• Health Reference Center Academic
  • Citations, abstracts, or full-text access to 700+ general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. 1980- present.
• HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
  • Descriptions of and references to more than 12,000 tests, manuals, rating systems, questionnaires, and other instruments used to assess health and behavior. 1985-present.
• Social Work Abstracts Plus
  • Information about articles on social work and human services from more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession. Includes The Register of Clinical Social Workers.
• PsycINFO (EBSCOHost)
  • The online version of Psychological Abstracts, indexing journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations. 1887- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
  • Provides encyclopedic access to information on natural medicines. Includes mechanism of action, safety, and therapeutic use, as well as citations to research studies.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 1,725 journals from 1965- present.
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.
• GenderWatch
  • Full text collection of articles covering women's and gender topics.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Articles, editorials, reviews, etc. from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Search in English or Spanish. 1990- present.
• Sociological Abstracts
  • Indexes the international literature of sociology and related behavioral sciences from over 1,700 journals, books and book chapters, dissertations and proceedings. Since 2001, many records include references cited.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.