Information for Nursing

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   ►Basics of keyword searching in electronic databases. 

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              Databases  Tab Searches EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite to tell you which magazines,
                                  newspapers and journals have published articles on the topics you want.

 

            CINAHL (EBSCO).  Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health.
                         Contains indexing and abstracts for over over 2900 current nursing and
                         health journals back to 1981+.  Also provides access to Pre-CINAHL, a companion
                         database featuring rotating bibliographic information about new journal articles as
                         they are being indexed. 2-4 simultaneous users.

 

              Journals  Tab  Provides a search box for specific magazine, newspaper or journal titles. 
                                   Tells you where the periodical article is and if it is electronic or in print.

                                    In the example below you would type Journal of Family Practice into
                                    the Journal Tab box. 

 

               Schroeder, Maryellen A. (2009, August) What's growing on your stethoscope?
                          (And what you can do about it) Alcohol-based foam can do double duty,
                           cleansing hands and stethoscope heads with a single scrub.
                          Journal of Family Practice, 58 (8), 404-410.