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NU 420: Community and Public Health Resources

Key Databases for Nursing

Using CINAHL and MEDLINE

Searching CINAHL and MEDLINE tutorial

Search Tips for Medline and CINAHL

 Both CINAHL and Medline are great databases to use for finding nursing and other allied health articles, but generally, using the correct MeSH (medical subject heading) term in Medline or CINAHL term in CINAHL is key. If an index term does not exist for your subject, you can search it as a keyword.

    "Explode" is useful in most searches because it includes articles with subheadings to the term you are interested in.

    In EBSCO databases, the * is the symbol to use for unlimited truncation. For example, nurs* would return results with nurse, nurses, nursery, and nursing.

Featured Nursing Journals

These links will bring you to a few of the many peer-reviewed Nursing journals subscribed to by the Jennings Library. They include both article citations and the full-text articles from the publisher. 

Working with Research Articles

Searching with Google Scholar

Google Scholar

 

Use the Full-Text @ Caldwell links in the search results to link to full-text.