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Welcome to the Nursing & Health Sciences Research Starter. This guide will help get you started with research for your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Research Starters
Looking for a good place to start your research? Try one of these recommended resources from the Libraries:
- Health Sciences Database Collection This link opens in a new window This link combines four health databases into a single EBSCO search: 1) CINAHL Complete, 2) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, 3) MEDLINE Complete, and 4) SPORTDiscus with Full-Text.
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Full text access to more than 2,000 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection.
Other Databases
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics, with access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
- OVID Nursing and Health Sciences Journals This link opens in a new window Access over 70 peer-reviewed journals in nursing, exercise science, sports medicine, and other health professions.
- Nursing Reference Center This link opens in a new window Provides a point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.