Nursing

ARTICLES

The databases below are especially helpful for accessing articles and citations in your discipline.

If you are off-campus, use the link for off-campus access to our databases provided at the end of each description on the Find Articles page.

Academic Search Premier- large interdisciplinary database, with much full-text content
Alt HealthWatch -  focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
Cambridge Histories Online - full-text content of histories of many areas, including health
CINAHL Plus with Full Text - comprehensive coverage of education fields and topics
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - full-text journal articles, including older issues of many journals
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - an online digital library of education research and information
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects - abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world
General Science Full Text - large science-related database, with much full-text content
Health Source - Consumer Edition - fulltext content from over 80 consumer health magazines
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - fulltext content from over 550 medical journals
Health Technology Assessments - provides details on completed and ongoing health technology assessments from around the world
Nursing & Allied Health Source - over 650 full-text journals and 12,000 fulltext dissertations
OmniFile Full Text Mega - multi-disciplinary database, with much full-text content  
PsycINFO - an abstract database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present

Here is a list of all Ryan Library databases.
Also try Google Scholar to search for scholarly articles.

BOOKS

The databases NetLibrary Collection and Oxford Reference Online have full-text books online.
Below is a representative list of subject encylopedias held at Ryan Library's reference area.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice
PDR Guide to Drug Interactions, Side Effects, and Indications
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Principles of Internal Medicine
Encyclopedia of Immunology

Check Phineas, Ryan Library's online catalog, for additional books available in the library.

Google Book Search is a good Web site to search for books on your topic 
WorldCat  - Find libraries near you with books on your topic

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Use InterLibrary Loan (LINK+ and ILLiad) to request books and articles not owned by Ryan Library.

WEB RESOURCES

Nursing

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)  Directory of Accredited Organizations
Drug Information: Where to look for drug information on the Internet
Gerontology Issues
Hardin MD - A source of lists, or directories, of information in health and medicine.
Medline Plus - Authoritative information from National Library of Medicine.
Trip Database - Leading Internet resources for Evidence-Based Medicine. 

Directories
Librarians' Internet Index
InfoMine
BUBL Link

Search Engines

Google Advanced - Provides more options for your search strategy.
Google Scholar - Search for scholarly articles.
Google Book Search - Search for books on your topic.
SUMSearch - Selects the best resources for your question,
formats your question for each resource, and makes additional searches based on results.
Zuula - A meta-search engine that searches more than one search engine at a time.

CITATION HELP

Endnote is a Web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies.  EndNote has numerous citation styles including APA, MLA, and Chicago (Turabian).  EndNote is available to current members of the PLNU community.

Anne-Elizabeth Powell, Liaison to the School of Nursing
Ryan Library, Technical Services
619-849-2208
AnneElizabethPowell@pointloma.edu

Phyllis Fox, Instructional Services Librarian for Graduate Studies
Ryan Library, Technical Services
619-849-2409
PhyllisFox@pointloma.edu