Guides: Nursing Research Guide: Finding Articles

Databases - find articles here by keyword searches

Fact Sheet: How are MEDLINE, PubMed, and PubMedCentral different?

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes indexing for 3000+ journals with coverage as far back as 1937 and full text coverage for over 300 journals. In addition to journals, includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and educational software.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Indexes allow for filtering studies by population, age group, gender, and peer reviewed literature.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a database containing over 19 million bibliographic citations from MEDLINE and life science journals. It was developed by The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI ) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and provides access to biomedical and genomic information.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science provides "Cited Reference Search" and subject searching through both "quick" and "advanced" searches. Our Web of Science subscription includes citations and references for articles in almost 9000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals published from 2002 to the present. Web of Science provides complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts, and cited references. Coverage is in the sciences (more than 6000 journals), followed by social sciences (approximately 1800 journals), and arts and humanities (approximately 1100 journals). For impact factor information about specific journals, users are directed to the index "Journal Citation Reports."

The COCHRANE LIBRARY
A collection of databases providing evidence-based practice information.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) catalog and databases

NLM LocatorPlus: The National Library of Medicine's online catalog for books, journals, and audiovisual materials.
[http://locatorplus.gov]
NLM Databases: Descriptions of, information on how to establish accounts for, and connections to the National Library of Medicine's databases: AIDS databases, Clinical Alerts, Images from the History of Medicine, and more.
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html]

Find an article

Articles can be found electronically and in print in the Catholic University Libraries.

Step one: Start your reseach in SearchBox (the articles tab).

Step two: Search a Nursing database using keywords pertinent to your topic. If the article is not available in full-text from a particular database, click on the "360 Find It" button.

Step three: Search CU's Journals for print and electronic journals. Works well when you have a citation, but not full text.

Step four: If CUA does not have the article you can request it through the Washington Research Libraries Consortium (WRLC) Consortium Loan Service (CLS).

Step five: If the article is not available through The CUA Libraries or CLS you can request it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Step six: Contact your library liaison at:

http://libraries.cua.edu/about/subjlibs.cfm