A free full-text Open Access article repository of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). There is some overlap between PMC and MEDLINE.
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's journal citation database. It’s available to you through two search interfaces: EBSCOhost and PubMed. This link is for the EBSCOhost interface. This database provides full-text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE, but not all.
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's journal citation database. It’s available to you through two search interfaces: EBSCOhost and PubMed. THis link is the PubMed interface. PubMed citations come from MEDLINE indexed journals, journals/manuscripts deposited in PMC, and NCBI Bookshelf. This version of PubMed is enhanced so that students will have access to any full-text material subscribed to by Jennings Library.
Extensive database of scholarly articles in nursing & allied health, with full text for more than 1,300 journals.
A collection of databases that provide high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
MMWR is a weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control on public health concerns.
Access about 15,000 business, legal, and news sources, including federal and state case law, full-text articles from law reviews and journals, company and industry information, articles from more than 2,500 newspapers, federal regulatory documents, and international news sources. Nexis Uni includes local, national, and international sources.
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.