LibGuides: Nursing and Pre-Nursing: Research Databases

Recommended Databases for Nursing, Medical and Health Research

Academic Search Complete
A large, multi-disciplinary collection of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles from EBSCO.
Dissertations & Theses Global
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly journal articles focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes drug patient information.
MEDLINE
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
PubMed
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. Links to the full text are present when the resource is available from other sites, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
ScienceDirect
Includes scholarly publications from a wide range of disciplines, including physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences, and social sciences.

Database Searching Tips

Quotation Marks " "

Use double quotation marks to find words in the exact order (i.e. "public administration", "health care", etc.), that is to search those words as a phrase.

Asterisk *

Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *, for example: manag* will search for manage, manages, managing, manager, management.

AND, OR and NOT

Use the Boolean search operators are AND, OR and NOT to create a very broad or very narrow search.

AND combines search terms so that each search result contains all of the terms. For example, business AND writing finds articles that contain both business and writing.
OR combines search terms so that each search result contains at least one of the terms. For example, college OR university finds results that contain either college or university.
NOT excludes terms so that each search result does not contain any of the terms that follow it. For example, communication NOT business finds results that contain communication but not business.

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Finding and Choosing Databases

The types of materials available from our Library databases are plentiful and varied. They include: articles (peer reviewed, news, magazines), book reviews, e-books, statistics, reports, films and more.

Go to the A-Z Databases list to find access links to all our library databases and to other helpful resources or explore other pages on this guide to find recommended databases for your research needs.

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