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Library Databases with Nursing Journals
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Library Databases with Nursing Journals

CINHAL
CINHAL provides indexing for 3,123 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheets.CINHAL also includes Clinical Queries in the advanced search mode, designed for clinician use.

To limit your search to nursing journals in CINHAL, enter nurs* in the first search box and in the adjacent drop-down menu select "SO Publication Name".

Health Source, Nursing/Academic Edition
Full-text articles from over 550 nursing and allied health scholarly journals. This database also includes over 1300 generic drug patient education guides.

Health Source, Consumer Edition
Full-text articles on a wide range of health topics and issues from consumer health magazines, health pamphlets and books, as well as clinical reference system reports, drug guides, over 1300 generic drug patient education guides, and a medical desk dictionary.

Cochrane
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and clinical treatment decisions.

Medline with Full Text
Created by the National Library of Medicine,Medline offers authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
You can limit your search to nursing journals by following the same limiting procedures described for CINHAL.

• On the opening search page, in the Limit Your Results section, scroll down to Journal & Citation Subset
• In the option box, scroll down to and select Nursing

Science Direct
To limit your search to nursing journals in Science Direct, in the Quick Search type "nurs∗" in the Journal/book title search box.

Free Online Journals

Free Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Online Journals
http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/freephjournals.cfm

Free Medical Journals Site
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/spec7.htm#nurse

Nurses Medscape
Sponsored by WebMd and overseen by an advisory board consisting of nurse Ph.D.s, nurse practitioners, and MSNs, this site offers links to full-text scholarly journals, nursing news, blogs and educational materials.
http://www.medscape.com/nurses

National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/freehealthlit.html
A list of links to free biomedical information sources.

NursingCenter
Provides access to over 50 nursing journals and journal supplements. Also offers links to clincal and professional resources. Requires free registration to access journal articles.
http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/index.asp