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Nursing

Find the best reference sources, article databases, and web resources available for Nursing.

OneSearch Library Catalog

OneSearch searches multiple article databases and the library physical collections all at once.

Use OneSearch to gain a broader sense of the information landscape and to see where material is indexed (for later searching in an individual database).

Find journal articles, books, e-books, DVDs, images, videos, and more. Use drop-down menus, facets, and the advanced search function to apply limits to your search.

Click Expand My Results to discover materials outside of our library. These materials can often be acquired through interlibrary loan.

Access OneSearch by clicking the link "Articles, Books, and More" on the library's homepage.

Recommended Databases

What is the difference between MEDLINE, PubMed, and PubMedCentral (PMC)?

MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) journal citation database. It is a subset of PUBMED. Beginning in the 1960s, MEDLINE now provides more than 21 million references (from more than 5,600 scholarly journals) dating back to 1946. MEDLINE can be searched directly from NLM as a subset of the PubMed database. MEDLINE uses the NLM controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings.)

PUBMED, available since 1996, with over 23 million references, includes the MEDLINE database, plus the following types of citations: in-process citations; citations to articles that are out-of-scope; "ahead of print" citations; pre-1966 citations that have yet to be updated with current MeSH; citations for the majority of books from the NCBI Bookshelf (for the book itself and often for each chapter of the book).

PubMed citations also include links to the full-text article on the publisher's website and/or in PMC and the Bookshelf. If a PubMed search is limited to searching MeSH, only MEDLINE citations will be retrieved.

 PMC (PubMedCentral) was added in 2000 as a free archive of full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles.

Find More Articles

Google Scholar is another tool to search for scholarly articles. It's particularly useful for locating an article that may not be available full-text through the Hood databases, but may be available openly on the internet. 

Google Scholar Search

CINAHL Tutorials

MEDLINE Tutorials