MEDLINE/PubMed
(1950+, via
the National Library of Medicine)
This National Library of Medicine database is the premier bibliographic
database covering medical journal literature including many articles of interest
to nursing researchers. Some pre-1950 literature is also included. PubMed
provides searching of older literature, but includes links to fewer full-text journals
than Medline via CSA above.
OVID
Provides access to 4
major databases:
•EBM Reviews (4 full-text Evidence Based
Medicine Reviews databases: ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Central Register of
Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Database
of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE).
•Your Journals@Ovid
(nearly 250 full-text journals online)
•Books@Ovid (24 full-text books in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology)
•Health
and Psychosocial Instruments (1985 to June 2004, full text)
POPLINE
(1973-present with selected
citations back to 1827).
The world's largest database on reproductive health literature, POPulation
information onLINE provides citations with abstracts to scientific articles,
reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family
planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is
funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID). Some links to full text articles.
ProQuest
1980 +
ProQuest includes a Health Module
that covers
medical conditions and treatment, substance abuse, insurance, health policy and
many other topics relevant to nursing. Many full-text journal articles are
provided.
Wegner Health Science
Information Center
The homepage for the Wegner Center in Sioux Falls provides links to
additional online resources such as Nursing Consult, First Consult, and
MICROMEDEX. Because SDSU is a Wegner Partner, students, faculty and staff
of SDSU may request a partner login to use many of those resources. Phone: (605)
357-1400 or (800) 521-2987 Email: <wegner@usd.edu>
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Other
Databases, Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
Bibliography of Bioethics
(Library Main Level, Abstracts & Indexes 016.1742 .WA17)
1975+
An annual publication providing access to print and non-print literature about
ethical issues in the biological and health sciences.
Current
Contents
This multidisciplinary, current awareness resource provides indexing and tables
of contents to over 6,000 journals covering a broad range of disciplines. Many
clinical and social/behavioral journals are included in this database.
Chmoogle
Free open-access chemistry search engine. Its
mission is to discover, curate, and index all of the public chemical information
in the world, and make it available to the public. Makes the world's chemistry
searchable by structure. Just draw a molecule using your favorite structure
drawing tool and hit Go.
Dissertation
Abstracts International
1861+
A subject, title, and author guide to over 1.5 million
doctoral dissertations written since 1861and masters theses since 1988.
DOAJ-Directory
of Open Access Journals
A collection of full-text, peer-reviewed journals in
many fields including 18 journals in nursing, 236 in general medicine, and 89 in
public health (as of Sept. 2007).
ERIC
1966+
The premier national database of
educational literature from 1966 to the present, ERIC also provides good
coverage of other social sciences. It provides comprehensive subject and author indexing to more than 800
scholarly and professional journals including thousands of records related to
nursing education. It also indexes other types of documents including
research reports, project and technical reports, curriculum guides, doctoral
dissertations, masters theses, etc. Many recent ERIC documents are available
online (see E*Subscribe below) or on microfiche in the library.
Ingenta
A database indexing the contents of thousands of journals and magazines in a
wide range of disciplines including nursing and other health sciences.
Some full text articles are available free; most are available for a fee.
International Nursing Index (INI)
(1966-1999, Paper, Abstracts &
Indexes 610.73 .IN8)
INI indexes nursing journals covered by Medline plus additional materials
selected by the editorial staff.
International
Pharmaceutical Abstracts
(1970+, via EBSCOhost)
Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, this is an
essential bibliographic resource for pharmacy. It covers about 750
pharmaceutical, medical and health-related journals. It is useful for locating
literature about biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, drug delivery systems, and
almost any topic relevant to pharmacists. Paper volumes (1964-1998) are shelved on
the library's main floor (Abstracts & Indexes 615.05 .IN8).
JSTOR
Provides full image access to the back
issues of more than 500 scholarly journals in various fields including: Health
and General Sciences, Biological Sciences, Education, African American Studies,
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Botany, Business, Ecology, Economics, Finance,
History, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,
Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Series A, Human &
Experimental.
A CAB database listing scholarly literature with abstracts relevant to
nutrition. Access this database as part of
CAB
Abstracts.
PsycINFO
(1840+, via CSA)
This American Psychological Association database covers journal articles, book
chapters, and book literature in psychology, as well as psychological aspects
of related disciplines, such as sociology, education, anthropology, and others.
It contains citations with abstracts to journals, books, and book chapters in
psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Sociological
Abstracts
(1963+, via CSA)
The
Sociological Abstracts database indexes and provides abstracts for
journal articles from sociology and related disciplines. In addition, it covers
relevant association papers and PhD and Master's theses. Older
journal articles are also covered in the paper Sociological Abstracts
shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area
(305.So15).
Web of Science
Provides access to Science Citation Index
and Social Sciences Citation Index. It allows very sophisticated searching
including cited reference searching.
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