PubMed is provided by the National Library of Medicine covering the fields of Nursing, Anesthesia, Medicine and Health Professions. Click on the "Get it @ Bryan" button for access to full text (if available) or the article request form.
CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
Bryan Fusion is a single simple entry point for searching the Bryan Library's resources, including all article databases, ebooks and the Library's book catalog. Bryan Fusion is an EBSCO product, so all EBSCO features are available (limits, individual login, full-text article options).
1. Make a list of keywords related to your topic. Are there broader or narrower terms? Are there synonyms?
2. Create a search strategy using the Boolean operators, AND; OR. For example, uterine fibroids AND infertility AND (ultrasonography OR ultrasound)
3. Remember to use the appropriate limits (e.g. peer-reviewed, date range, English language, study type, etc.) in the databases. The limits may be somewhat different, depending on what database(s) you search.
Sonography journals and other relevant medical journals are indexed in several databases. The following list shows the differences between journal coverage in PubMed and CINAHL Complete. Note: The list doesn't include all sonography journals -- just a few to illustrate the differences.
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Sonography (published by Wiley; started in 2014; Australasian Sonographers Association)