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Nursing research
This is a list of databases with nursing content. See our Database A-Z List for a complete list of databases at NU.
- 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. Includes selected full text from PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf. PubMed is a free web resource, however this version contains links to Northeastern-subscribed journals that require a login.
- 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 PDFs or full text for Northeastern-subscribed journals.
- 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 for Northeastern-subscribed journals.
- 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.
- Scopus and Scopus AI This link opens in a new windowEnter a natural language query and receive results from the largest multidisciplinary abstract and citation database including graphical representations showing connections among keywords, pointers to influential papers, and suggested related queries to further your research.
- Policy File (Proquest) 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.
- 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.
Supplemental Search Tools
There are many additional tools available for searching the literature. The tools mentioned below can be valuable in surfacing relevant literature. However, one must keep in mind: many of these tools are built on open access published literature (papers which are not behind paywalls). Search tools which rely only or primarily on open access literature may give an incomplete view of existing research.
Consider these tools to be additional strategies, rather than replacements for "gold standard" databases such as PubMed.
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered search and discovery tool. It uses machine learning techniques to extract meaning and identify connections from within papers. Its corpus of papers is considerable, but not comprehensive. Semantic Scholar sources papers from open access journals and a variety of publishing partners. One unique feature of Semantic Scholar is 'Research Feeds', which are an adaptive research recommender that uses AI to quickly learn what papers you care about reading and recommends the latest research to help you stay up to date.
Elicit
When using Elicit, you write your query as a question, and Elicit outputs relevant articles and summarizes key information from the articles. Elicit relies on the same language models which underwrite ChatGPT, with additional models and algorithms unique to Elicit. For its corpus of articles, Elicit relies on Semantic Scholar. Elicit operates on a ‘freemium’ model. So as a free user, one will have a limit on how many times you can search, and you will not have access to every feature by default. That said, even in its free version, one may find Elicit to be useful when reviewing the literature.
Scite.ai
Scite.ai is an AI-assisted tool for discovering, contextualizing, and understanding research. Northeastern University Library just recently subscribed to Scite.ai in May 2024. Scite uses deep learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques to analyze the text and citation metadata of scientific papers. Scite's Smart Citations describe the context of individual citations, both where in the article the citation occurs and whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Scite included a variety of tools including a browser extension, custom dashboards, PDF uploader, and search. Learn more about how Scite was built in this MIT Press article.
Research Rabbit
Research Rabbit is a freely available citation-based literature mapping tool. It uses ‘seed papers’ to locate additional relevant literature via citation and collaboration networks. Read an in-depth review of Research Rabbit. PDF overview and brief tutorial from James Cook University.
LitMaps
LitMaps is another citation-based literature mapping tool, which operates on a 'freemium' model. Like Research Rabbit and Connected Papers, LitMaps uses ‘seed papers’ to locate additional relevant literature via citation and collaboration networks. LitMaps' database uses open access metadata from Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, and OpenAlex.
Connected Papers
Connected Papers is another citation-based literature mapping tool which operates on a 'freemium' model. Like LitMaps and Research Rabbit, LitMaps uses ‘seed papers’ to locate additional relevant literature via citation and collaboration networks. Connected Papers uses the Semantic Scholar database for its corpus. Learn more about Connected Papers.
Undermind.ai
Undermind is an AI-powered search engine for research articles. As of April 2024, Undermind is offering a promotion free tier for individuals. It is likely to transition to a paid model in the future. For more information, read Undermind's White Paper, as well as a review by data services librarian, Aaron Tay. At the time of the publication of the White Paper, Undermind searched ArXiv, the preprint archive. As of April 2024, it now searches Semantic Scholar's corpus of over 200 million published research articles.
Articles Written by a Nurse
There are several ways to locate articles written by nurses in CINAHL Ultimate. 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.
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Finding Dissertations Online
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).
Find more about dissertations and theses at Northeastern University Library here.
Streaming Video Collections
- Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online Premium provides video content to a broad range of subject areas, including documentaries and journalistic content on topics in business, politics, history, music, public health, education and more. Training videos are also available.
- Docuseek This link opens in a new windowDocumentary films for higher education including the Good Docs Collection.
- Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowA curated collection of films for the Northeastern community, including feature films as well as high-interest documentaries. You may use Scholar OneSearch to find out if Northeastern has a particular film. Closed captions and transcripts included. Films provided by HBO and Neon Films cannot be viewed outside of the U.S.
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.