Welcome to the Nursing Research Guide

 

 

Utilize this guide to search databases listed below for articles and other information for your topic and course assignments. If you have questions please use the chat box.

MedLine with Full Text

Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences; full-text from 1990.

CINAHL Complete

The most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL

Journals @ OVID Nursing Collection (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins)

Full-text access to a group of approximately 70 highly respected medical and nursing journals. 

The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making (assessment, reviews, controlled trials register, etc.).

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

Indexes journals in nursing and allied health. Most titles full text, beginning 1986.

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 (NIH/NLM)

Find Books

 

• Online Catalog (GIL-Find)

  Check the online catalog for books and more at Middle Georgia State.
• Reserves

  Check in GIL-Find for items (print or electronic) that your professor has put on reserve.
  Ask for books and other print materials at the desk in the Library.
  Log in to online reserves with the password your professor provides you.

Nursing or Medicine Specific Databases

 

• CINAHL Complete

  CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals.
• The Cochrane Library

  The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
• Films on Demand Nursing Video Collection

  The most comprehensive range of any nursing streaming video service available.
• Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition

  Over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines.
• Journals @ Ovid Nursing Collection (Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins)

  Journals @ Ovid Nursing Collection (Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins) provides full-text access to a select group of highly respected medical and nursing journals.
• MEDLINE with Full Text (at EBSCOhost)

  MEDLINE with Full Text combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals.
• Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest)

  ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable health care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.
• R2 Digital Library (Electronic Nursing Books)

  The R2 Digital Library is a web based database that offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers.

General Databases

 

• GALILEO

  Over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 10,000 journal titles are provided in full-text.
• Academic Search Complete

  Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals.
• JSTOR

  Full text articles from the back issues of selected core journals.
• ProQuest Central

  ProQuest Central brings together 30 highly used ProQuest databases to create the largest single academic research resource.
• Films on Demand

  Films on Demand consists of 15,500 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science.

Useful Websites

 

• The Merck Manual (Professional Edition)
• CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Consumer Health Complete
• National Institutes of Health
• RxList

Other Helpful Guides

 

• Guide to Writing a Literature Review
• Writing the Annotated Bibliography

Poster Presentation Template

 

• MGA Poster Template

  Powerpoint Presentation, poster template.
• Poster Template-Alternate

  Poster template, slightly different format.

Search GALILEO

 

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