Databases
Nursing research and practice integrates knowledge from multiple disciplines. Below are several relevant databases to help you get started with your search.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- PubMed
- Cochrane Library
- PsycINFO including PsycARTICLES
- Global Health
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
- Sociological Abstracts
- Health & Wellness Resource Center (including Alternative Health Module)
- ERIC
- Journal Citation Reports
CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the leading English-language nursing database. CINAHL provides indexing for over 3,000 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals. In addition to journals, it includes legal cases, clinical innovations, research instruments, nursing dissertations, selected conferences and proceedings, standards of professional practice, critical paths, book chapters, patient education materials, educational software, and audiovisuals.
The premier biomedical database. PubMed is the free web-based version of MEDLINE. PubMed provides international coverage of English-and foreign-language journals in the areas of medicine, nursing, allied health, and the basic life sciences.
Provides Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials and other evidence-based medicine literature. The included databases are: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Cochrane Review Methodology Database, and the Cochrane Collaboration.
Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Global Health is a specialist international public health database for academics, researchers, public health practitioners, NGOs, policy makers, clinicians, healthcare professionals and students.
HaPI, features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.
Use to locate literature on sociology and related disciplines in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Contains information on the sociocultural aspects of illness and health.
A gateway of consumer health information including medical and professional literature in several formats.
The major database of materials in all areas of education. It contains both published journals and unpublished reports. Useful in locating education-related literature for and about nurses and nursing.
Journal Citation Reports is available through ISI's Web of Knowledge. This is a resource tool for journal evaluation using citation data.