Research Subject Guides: Nursing: Additional Databases, Interlibrary Loan, Tutorials

Additional Databases, Interlibrary Loan, Tutorials

Use the links below to find article databases and news sources:

Additional Databases                               Find Articles Written by a Nurse
Database Tutorials                                    Choose Keywords for Your Search
Interlibrary Loan                                    5 Ways to Improve Your Search Results
                                                                    Find the Full-Text Article from a Citation

Additional Databases

This is a list of additional databases with nursing content. For the "best bets" nursing databases, please click here. For a complete list of databases at NU, please click here.

medRxiv
medRxiv is a free onlline archive of complete but unpublished manuscripts in the medical, clinical and related health sciences. med Rxiv facilitates early dissemination of new findings by allowing researchers to share manuscripts before they are peer-reviewed and published in academic journals. Hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Yale University.

CINAHL Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts of scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and professional association news and information for thousands of publications. Covers nursing and 17 allied health disciplines, going as far back as 1937. Links to full text where available.
Nursing dissertations, National League for Nursing and American Nurses' Association publications, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based Care Sheets, and 250+ research instrument descriptions. Features CINAHL Headings - controlled vocabulary search terms for more precise, comprehensive search results.
View tutorials on searching this database
Web of Science, Core Collection 1975-present This link opens in a new window
Use for citation tracking, finding seminal literature, data visualizations, author alerts, institutional affiliations, and impact factors. Links to full text.
Includes:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index
Book Citation Index (2005-present)
Conference Citation Index
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Current Chemical Reactions Index
Index Chemicus
Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and professional citations and abstracts with full text links in politics and public policy, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, information sciences and education. Professional society databases included.
Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, Social Sciences Premium includes

Sociology Database
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
PAIS Index
Political Science Database
PolicyFile
Criminal Justice Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Library Science Database
Library & Information Science Abstracts
Education Database
ERIC
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics Database
Social Science Database
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Embase (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
An up-to-date biomedical research database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. Structured and natural language searching.
Embase includes unique non-English content and coverage of the most important types of evidence, such as randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, Cochrane reviews and meta-analyses.
AgeLine (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
AgeLine focuses on those aged 50+ and the literature of social gerontology. Covers aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy.
- What this includes: over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos..
Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
International, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- What this includes: Articles, pamplets, reports, book excerpts
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
High quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
Natural Medicine is a merger of two resources, Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive databases.
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)(EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Information about behavioral measurement instruments, abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
View help for this resource from the publisher.
PolicyFile This link opens in a new window
U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System
Full text access to journal articles, magazines, audio files, and encyclopedia articles on health and wellness topics.

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