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Subject Resources -- Nursing

Finding Articles
Article Databases
Article Indexes
Article Indexes
Journals and Newspapers
Bibliographies
Reference Resources
Electronic Books
RefWorks (reference/bibliography manager)
Internet Resources - General

Internet Resources - Government
Images and Other Media
Associations and Professional Organizations
Style Guides
Grants, Fellowships, etc.
News from the Field
Research Instruments
Related Subject Areas
UA Dept. of Nursing Home Page

The librarian for this subject is Ms. Bonnie Chojnacki.
Email: chojnac@uakron.edu
See the Collection Development Policy for Nursing.

Some of the databases listed on this page are for University of Akron students, faculty and staff only.
For detailed information on connecting from off-campus, see: Connecting to Online Resources.

Finding Articles

There are no articles in The UA Libraries Catalog or OhioLINK. You must search the following databases to find articles on your topic. Use a 'keyword' search to locate a relevant article, then use the 'subject' field to locate similar items. When you find an article in any database you must check The UA Libraries Catalog for the journal title. If Akron does not have the article you need, you must request the article with ILLiad. I need more help finding articles.

Article Databases

To use these article databases from off-campus you will need to use UA VPN or OhioLINK Remote Authentication.

Article Indexes

Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Access Science - AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology. AccessScience contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news.
AccessMedicine - McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions. AccessMedicine goes where you need it most! Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
Alt-HealthWatch - Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers an immediate resource of full-text articles, from more than 170 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. 1990- present.
Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews - Index and abstracts to international journal articles in biological and medical research. BIOSIS Previews also covers books and meetings. Includes or has links to full-text.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text - CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
Cochrane Library Online - See link for description
Digital Media Center - OhioLINK - Several databases of electronic images or videos; will eventually also include sound, numeric data, and other types of electronic media.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) - Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Health Source: Consumer Edition - Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Includes or has links to full text.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes or has links to full text.
Images.MD - images.MD compiles more than 55,000 images from more than 90 collections ranging from allergy to urology, each accompanied by detailed and informative text contributed by more than 2,000 medical experts. Images are derived from Current Medicine’s renowned series of illustrated atlases.
MEDLINE 1950 - present - Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE 1950-1965 ("OLDMEDLINE") - Index to articles from international biomedical journals, 1953-1965. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE 2002 - present - Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE with Full Text - MEDLINE with Full Text includes all of the content available in MEDLINE as well as cover-to-cover full text for 1,014 journals indexed as cover-to-cover in MEDLINE, including hundreds of journals not available as full text in any other EBSCO database.
Natural and Alternative Treatments - See link for description
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source - Full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations to support the study of the many aspects of nursing or the allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene, and the clinical laboratory sciences.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Includes or has links to full text.
PsycINFO 1967- - Index and abstracts of articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. Includes or has links to full text.
PsycINFO Historical 1872-1966 - Index and abstracts of historical psychological journals, 1872-1966.
PubMed - Government website of medical literature citations andlinks to full-text journals of participating publishers.Drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE databases. 1966- present.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science) - Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the sciences. Includes or has links to full text.

Journals and Newspapers

EJC - Health Sciences and Medicine
EJC - Full text of 6000+ research journals. Includes or has links to full text.
E-Journal Portal - can be used to determine electronic subscriptions. There are links within the UA catalog for particular publications to the E-Journal Portal as well.
List of Core Nursing Journals
List of Peer Reviewed Journals in CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health)
PubMed Central's List of Open Access Journals
Nursing Journals in UA Catalog

Bibliographies

Consumer Health Information Source Book, 6th edition - Science Reference RA776 .R43 2000
National Institute of Health Current Bibliographies in Medicine - Each bibliography covers a subject area of biomedicine. May be downloaded for free.
Nursing Bibliographies in the UA Libraries Catalog
Resources for Nursing Research: An Annotated Bibliography - Science Reference RT81.5.C534 2004

Reference Resources

Gray's Anatomy online
Gray's Anatomy, 39th edition - Sci Ref Reserve QM23.2 .G73 2005
Medical and Health Information Directory. 5th edition. 3 volumes - Science Reference R118.4.U6 M43 5th ed.
Merck Manual online
MeSH: Medical Subject Headings - the National Library of Medicine's controlled subject vocabulary used for indexing and cataloging of medical terms.
Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions, 7th edition - Science R121 .M89 2006
Physicians' Desk Reference - Science Reference RS75.P5
Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing - Science Reference R121 .S8 2005

Electronic Books

Electronic Book Center - Online reference books on diverse topics. Includes or has links to full text.
netLibrary - Online books on many subjects. For off-campus access, first create a personal netLibrary account while on campus.

RefWorks (reference/bibliography manager)

RefWorks - RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. To sign up for a RefWorks account, point your browser to https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp and view the quick start guide.

Internet Resources - General

Familydoctor.org
Medscape - Nurses
NP Central
Nursing Shortage Resource Web Link
NursingWorld Links
Researching Medical Literature on the Internet - Article with annotated list of reputable Internet sites for medical literature, images, search engines, drugs, health care providers and facilities, podcasts, and think tanks. Author Gloria Miccioli, 2008.
Searching the Nursing Literature: an online tutorial

Internet Resources - Government

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: CDC
Drug information from MedlinePLUS covers over 9,000 drugs
Evidence Based Public Health Nursing
Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS)
MEDLINEplus
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
NLM Research Instruments/Indices - part of Health Services and Sciences Research Resources.

Images and Other Media

National Library of Medicine Visible Human Project - three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.

Associations and Professional Organizations

Style Guides

College of Nursing APA Guidelines - - The University of Akron College of Nursing APA Style Guide
APA Documentation - The Writing Center at The University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Choose Create APA parenthetical citations if you want to cite a source inside the document
- Choose Create an APA reference list if you want to create works cited list
APA Style Electronic References -
- APA Style Electronic Sources - Trinity University
APA Style Resources - 5th Edition.
Color-Coded APA Guide
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Includes style of Index Medicus.

Grants, Fellowships, etc.

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
American Cancer Society - Doctoral Scholarships in Cancer Nursing.
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) - Nursing Research Grants
GrantsNet - grant information from the Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institutes of Health - grant opportunities at the National Center for Research Resources
National League for Nursing - Nursing Education Research Grants Program
National Library of Medicine - Division of Extramural Programs
Oncology Nursing Foundation - Master's Scholarships
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - fellowships
Sigma Delta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - Nursing Grants

News from the Field

NIH Public Access Policy - Apr. 7, 2008
Biomedicine and Health in the News - Indexes articles in the New York Times and the Star Tribune (Minn).
Health and Medicine in the News
National Institutes of Health News & Events - includes special events, news and press releases
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing - Kent State University College of Nursing: a peer reviewed, electronic journal providing a free forum for discussion of issues in nursing
State Nursing Journals - Nursing publications for each state. Site offers recruitment features for nationwide job searches and includes option of resume posting.

Research Instruments

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) - Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Measurement of nursing outcomes, 3 volumes - Science Reference RT85.5 .M434 2001
Sourcebook of adult assessment strategies - Bierce Reference RC473.P78 S38 1995
Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences - Tests available in compilation volumes. This webpage gives excellent information for finding research instruments. From the information given in the citations, you can check to see if we, or an OhioLINK library, have the volume that contains the instrument you need.

Related Subject Areas

UA Dept. of Nursing Home Page