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Nursing research
This is a list of additional databases with nursing content. For a complete list of databases at NU, please click here.
- PubMed (NU customized) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive source of journal literature in the life sciences and biomedicine from the National Library of Medicine. PubMed is a free web resource, however this version contains links to Northeastern-subscribed journals that require a login.
- medRxivmedRxiv is a free onlline archive of complete but unpublished manuscripts in the medical, clinical and related health sciences.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 Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCitations 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.
- Web of Science, Core Collection 1975-present This link opens in a new windowUse for citation tracking, finding seminal literature, data visualizations, author alerts, institutional affiliations, and impact factors. Links to full text.
- Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowScholarly 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.
- Embase (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowAn up-to-date biomedical research database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. Structured and natural language searching.
- AgeLine (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAgeLine 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 windowInternational, 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 windowHigh quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
- HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)(EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowInformation about behavioral measurement instruments, abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
- PolicyFile This link opens in a new windowU.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 windowCourtesy 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.
Articles Written by a Nurse
There are several ways to locate articles written by nurses in CINAHL Complete. See the video tutorial.
1. CINAHL Complete offers two limiters called "First Aurthor is Nurse" and "Any Author is Nurse". This option narrows search results to articles written from 2009 onwards by authors with RN, BSN, MSN or equivalent foreign credential. These limiters are found on the main search page under "Search Options".
2. To locate pre-2009 articles written by a nurse, select the Field Code option "AF Author Affiliation", located in the drop-down box to the right of the main search box on the CINAHL Complete search page. This restricts a search to an author's institution--where the author works, assuming this information has been included in the article. For example, enter "nursing" in the search box and select the field "AF Author Affiliation" from the drop-down "Select a Field" menu. Your results will include articles written by authors affiliated with an institution that has the word "nursing" in the title, such as "College of Nursing" or "School of Nursing".
3. Search by nursing qualification in the "AF Author Affiliation" field. This allows you to search for such qualifications as "DNP", "CRNA", or "FNP". For example in the main search box, enter "FNP" with the "AF Author Affiliation" field specified will return articles with an author who is a family nurse practitioner.
4. Use the "SO Publication Name" field to restrict search results to journals with the word "nursing" in the title of the journal, such as Journal of Advanced Nursing. You can increase your search results by entering "nurs*" in the search box instead of "nursing". The asterisk (*) is a useful technique called truncation, and searching on this term results in journals with nurs in the title, including the word nursing, nurse or nurses. This technique may also be used when using the "AF Author Affiliation field code.
5. Use the "Nursing" limiter found in the Journal Subset drop-down box on the "Search Options" page. This restricts search results to journals with a nursing focus.
NOTE: Options 2-5 above will limit search results to articles more likely to have a nurse as author, however, you should carefully examine an article to check whether or not there are nursing credentials listed for the author, such as Cindy Smith RN, MSN.
Find ebooks by searching Scholar OneSearch
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Finding Dissertations Online
Information about submitting dissertations and theses online is available at the University Archives website.
Northeastern University dissertations online are searchable at Dissertations and Theses at NU
To search for dissertations beyond Northeastern University, use Proquest Dissertations and Theses, Global (PQDT).
Streaming Video Collections
Academic Video Online (AVON)
Offers more than 48,000 videos across a broad range of disciplines. Take look at the Health Sciences videos!
Docuseek2
Docuseek2 is an academic streaming source for social issue films and documentaries, with hundreds of titles in all major disciplines, including health, healthcare, medicine and nursing.
Kanopy Streaming
Kanopy offers a broad range of documentaries across many disciplines. Take a look at the Health videos!
Nursing Associations
Newspapers
- New York Times, 1980-present (via Proquest) Text-only access to the New York Times, beginning in 1980, up to and including today's issue. Late east coast edition. Does not include the book review.
- Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window Our largest general news source, with current and complete newspapers, magazines, wire services from around the world. Backfiles sometimes go back to the 1980s. Text only.