Best Bets - Top Search Tools in Nursing |
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CINAHL Nursing Index  |
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Complete coverage of nursing & related health disciplines. 500+ journals are searched.  |
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews  |
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Evidence-based medicine studies and full text articles.  |
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Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition  |
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550+ full text scholarly journals are searched, including 450 peer reviewed journals in many medical disciplines.  |
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Medline with Full Text  |
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Huge, comprehensive group of journals in medicine and related fields. There's some full text linked within this database.  |
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NursingConsult & MDConsult  |
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NursingConsult has full text nursing journals, online books, clinical updates, drug info, patient handouts & more! MDConsult has medical books, journals, clinical practice guidelines & more.  |
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Up to Date Clinical Resource  |
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Answers to clinical questions, peer reviewed text, practical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment.  |
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List of Nursing journals owned by Polk Library (print and online) |
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Alt-Healthwatch |
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Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. |
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Merck Manuals |
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A series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers. |
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New England Journal of Medicine Online  |
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Online full text access to the journal  |
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Nursing Full Text Plus  |
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Nursing Full Text Plus combines full text access to over 40 research and practitioner-oriented journals dating as far back as 1995. It also includes abstracts from over 400 nursing journals spanning the breadth of the profession.  |
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Science Citation Index |
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Comprehensive search tool that lets you do a cited reference search.  |
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Science Direct |
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Coverage in health sciences. Polk subscribes to approx. 1700 full text journals from 2006 - present.  |
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Science Magazine Online  |
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Full text access to current and some archival issues.  |
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Science Reference Center  |
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Full text for science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.  |
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Academic Search Complete  |
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Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals. |
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Dissertations & Theses Full Text  |
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A highly comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.  |
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E-Books  |
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Access scholarly e-books in a variety of subject areas, from several vendor collections.  |
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe |
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Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information.  |
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Oxford Reference Online - Dictionaries/Encyclopedias  |
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Over 100 dictionaries (both English and foreign language), reference books on many subjects & more.
See the books in your subject  |