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Introduction to Library Research in Nursing

Research in Nursing primarily means searching for journal articles, which you will mostly find in the databases CINAHL (the index for nursing and allied health professionals) and PubMed (the largest biomedical research database in the world). You will find links to these databases and other help with nursing research on this research guide.

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Frequently Used Databases for Nursing

Start your search in the databases listed below. Other helpful databases may be found in the A to Z list in this Nursing guide.

AccessMedicine
Medical and health care books, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Updated daily.

Designed for direct access to the information necessary for evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review. To access the mobile version, optimized for viewing on iPhones and other PDAs, register for a My AccessMedicine profile from any on-site computer. Once you have done so, you can log on to the site using your My AccessMedicine username & password. [Mobile-friendly URL: http://go.umflint.edu/am]
CINAHL Complete
Primary journal index for nursing and allied health professions.

1937-present. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines. Includes journal articles, evidence-based care sheets, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters.
Cochrane Library
Evidence-based medicine. Systematic reviews of literature and other reviews of recent evidence in all areas of health care.
DynaMed Plus
Evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool for health care professionals. Clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics. Install on mobile device.
MEDLINE via FirstSearch
1965-present. Covers clinical medicine, nutrition, pathology, education, psychiatry, experimental medicine, toxicology, health services administration, nursing.
MEDLINE via UM-MEDSEARCH (Ovid)
A different interface to Medline, the primary database offered by PubMed. This link is to the login page for Medline via UM-Medsearch. Use your uniqname and UMICH password to login to "Authenticated Sign-on."

1946-present. MEDLINE is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
PubMed
Largest biomedical research database worldwide. Always start searches for Nursing literature here or in CINAHL. This interface to Medline is publicly available, and thus will be accessible to you after graduation from UM-Flint.

PubMed indexes over 4,000 biomedical, nursing, dentistry and related journals, with over 21 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and related databases. PubMed is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and provides links between article citations and relevant data in other NCBI ENTREZ databases, including Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.

Includes journal literature, 1950-present; selected online books.
UpToDate
Point-of-care database to support clinical decision making in patient care.Click here for directions for mobile download..

Covers 9,100+ topics in 20 specialties; graded treatment recommendations; links to referenced articles (when available); drug database & drug interactions program, including adult, pediatric, international, & natural drugs with drug-to-drug, drug-to-herb and herb-to-herb interactions; medical calculators.

Additional databases for Nursing may be found under the A - Z Database tab in the column on the left.

Mango Languages

Mango Languages
Interactive language learning. Includes over 70 modern and ancient languages. Set up a personal account to track progress and resume where you left off.

Includes the following languages
• Arabic, Egyptian
• Arabic, Iraqi
• Arabic, Levantine
• Arabic, MSA
• Armenian
• Azerbaijani
• Bengali
• Cherokee
• Chinese, Cantonese
• Chinese, Mandarin
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dari
• Dutch
• Dzongkha
• English
• English, Shakespearean
• Farsi (Persian)
• Filipino, Tagalog
• Finnish
• French
• French, Canadian
• German
• Greek, Modern
• Greek, Ancient
• Greek, Koine
• Haitian Creole
• Hawaiian
• Hebrew, Biblical
• Hebrew, Modern
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Igbo
• Indonesian
• Irish (Standard)
• Italian
• Japanese
• Javanese
• Kazakh
• Korean
• Latin
• Malay
• Malayalam
• Norwegian
• Pashto
• Pirate
• Polish
• Portuguese, Brazil
• Punjabi, Pakistani
• Romanian
• Russian
• Scottish Gaelic
• Serbian
• Shanghainese
• Slovak
• Spanish, Castilian
• Spanish, Latin America
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Turkish
• Tuvan
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Uzbek
• Vietnamese
• Yiddish

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