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!
Best Bets for Research Articles
- 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 windowDatabase of recommended practice, systematic reviews, consumer information, and technical reports.
On-campus link to the database - 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 windowScopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 22,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities).
Coverage: 1995 to present
- Off-campus link (proxy)
- On-campus link
- 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.
How do I conduct a Literature Review?
Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy by
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Measurement Tools
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments : HaPI This link opens in a new windowIncludes: indexes of peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, technical reports, and test publishers' catalogs about behavioral measurement tools and instruments which are used across professions and disciplines, including nursing, public health, psychology, social work, communication, sociology, and organizational behavior or human resources.