Best Databases for Nursing
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) (1937+)Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Indexes nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals.
- MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+)MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine with the capability to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
Other Databases Related to Nursing
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley)"contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare"
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)ERIC is the most complete index to articles and reports on educational topics.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)Information about behavioral measurement instruments, such as checklists, coding schemes, indexes, interview schedules, projective techniques, questionnaires, rating scales, surveys, tasks, tests, and vignettes/scenarios.
- Health Technology Assessments (HTA)This database is available from the CRD database website."
Provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. "The HTA database is produced by the NIHR Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK. - APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 256 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley)"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
Databases provided by the College of Medicine
- Access MedicineProvides instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted resources; includes clinical case files, self-assessment questions, and textbooks such as the Harrison Online, Hurst's The Heart, Principles of Critical Care and the Lange series.
- Clinical Key (Elsevier)An online search tool that provides physicians with fast clinical answers.
Provided by the College of Medicine. - DynaMed Plus (EBSCOhost)Provides evidence based clinical information on more than 3,000 topics for use at the point-of-care; includes ICD-9 Codes and levels of evidence.
- Facts and Comparisons (WoltersKluwer)Drug information and references. Also includes clinical calculators, warnings, codes & indexes, and medication guides.
- JAMAevidence (McGraw-Hill)"Evidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates the best available evidence with clinical experience that allows clinicians to recommend, and their patients to make, informed choices consistent with their values. JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care."
Provided by UCF College of Medicine Health Sciences Library. - Medical Letter (The Medical Letter) (1988+)Critical appraisals of new drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs.
- Medscape"Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape from WebMD automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site that best fits your registration profile."
- Thieme MedOne EducationOnline access to the Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks, the popular series of color atlases and pocket textbooks in anatomy, basic science, clinical science, and radiology.
- Thieme Connect: Online Journals (2000+)full text medical journals
- Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter (2002-2014)Provides unbiased prescribing recommendations featuring drug treatment of major indications, recommendations for first-choice and alternative drugs, and comparative assessment of drug effectiveness, safety and cost. Treatment Guidelines ceased in 2014. Access is provided for 2002-2014.
