Research Guides: Nursing: Getting Started: Articles and Books

Finding Scholarly Articles

Need to find scholarly or peer-reviewed articles? Try searching in one of these "best bet" databases:

CINAHL Plus with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
References to and full text of sources in nursing and allied health disciplines, such as diet, nutrition, physical and occupational therapies. (1982-present).
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed, structured reviews by groups of experts in over 40 clinical specialties who authoritatively review hundreds of studies on topics in their specialty, select those that meet strict EBM criteria, and perform "meta-analyses" when possible on all the included studies.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Health & medical information primarily from MEDLINE.

All Nursing Databases
A list of all the library databases that contain useful information about nursing.

Books and e-books

Need an overview of a topic, or a lot of information about something specific? Need to use sources other than scholarly articles? Here's a link to our Nursing books and e-books:

Nursing books and e-books
This link will take you to a Seeker search of the library's books and e-books on Nursing topics.