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Nursing
A guide to Nursing resources, journal articles, and books, along with helpful handouts.
CINAHL® provides indexing for thousands of journals from the fields of nursing and allied health with millions of records and going back to 1981. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
CINAHL offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL® covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Searchable cited references for more than 1,300 journals are also included. Full-text material includes more than 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. It includes material from the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life, behavioral, chemical, and bioengineering sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. PubMed @ UMSL displays links to UMSL library journals.
Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. Many find the EBSCO version easier to use, but an OVID version is also available.
Content Includes:
Over 19 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine
Records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Citations from approximately 5,600 worldwide journals in 39 languages, and older journals in 60 languages
Citations created by the NLM
Coverage from 1946 to the present, with some older material
Majority of publications are scholarly journals
Includes a small number of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters
Majority of journals selected based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC)
APA PsycInfo® is the American Psychological Association's renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, containing over 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
PMC is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the Public Access Policy mandated by NIH and similar policies of other research funding agencies.
For more information on PubMed Central, see the article "MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?"
Offers citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, healthcare services and the allied health fields, biological & physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Covers 1946 - present. Although coverage is worldwide, most records are derived from English-language sources or have English-language abstracts.
Several other databases are available and can be selected from within the OVID search interface:
OldMedline: The citations in this database are for articles originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1946 through 1965.
Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations: PreMEDLINE (PREM), the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) in-process database for MEDLINE, provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. PreMEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage. Completed PreMEDLINE records are added as citations to MEDLINE on a weekly basis. However, records that do not receive indexing remain in Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations.
