The BCHS Library subscribes to several databases that are useful to graduate nursing students. For this course, the databases listed below will be the most useful. If you need assistance developing your search strategy, review this helpful handout or don't hesitate to contact your librarian.
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.
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.
Quickly determine publishing trends, key authors and institutions, and journals that have published articles on a topic. Over 21,000 peer-reviewed journals and 134,000 books are covered, with 17.2 million open-access records containing full-text links, across multiple disciplines
If you are looking for research instruments, this guide from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth contains helpful information. Check the sections on CINAHL and PubMed.
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The following video introduces searching in Web of Science, useful filters for results, and how to access full text of articles.
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The video below will show you how to do citation chaining, also known as the "snowball method," using Web of Science.
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