Best Bets
- CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new windowan index to the nursing and allied health literature
- 1982- present, updated monthly
- complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health - PubMed This link opens in a new windowFree and accessible version of MedLine from the National Library of Medicine. Includes: over 4000 medical and biomedical journals in the U.S. and other countries. See the "Spotlight on PubMed" box below!
- Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database This link opens in a new windowUse to find evidence-based information and guidance for health professionals to inform decisions made at the point of care. Contains best practice information sheets, evidence summaries, recommended practices, systematic review protocols, and systemic reviews. Sourced from JBI (formerly the Joanna Briggs Institute).
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window-collection of evidence-based medicine databases
-systematic Reviews available from 1990- present, records available from 1960-present; updated quarterly
-regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases - Scopus This link opens in a new windowUse to find what is happening in research throughout the world in the fields of science, technology, social sciences, medicine and arts and humanities. Contains abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. Must use links to access full-text.
- Gale Nursing and Allied HealthGale offers a product portfolio of digital products, including databases and eBooks, to support the study of nursing and allied health. These products contain full-text allied health literature from journals and other publications.
Where should I start? Spotlight on PubMed
PubMed is a great database to begin your searches.
- Be sure to use the Le Moyne PubMed link so that you can connect to full text articles from your search results!
- Create a free myNCBI account to save your search strategies and preferred results.
The short tutorials below are a great way to learn PubMed basics!
Publishing Nursing Research
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- Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities This link opens in a new windowUse an advanced search to set your topic or type the name of a journal to discover impact factors and full manuscript requirements and submission details.