Recommended Research Databases
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
CINAHL provides indexing for journals about nursing and related fields. It offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.
- PubMed
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It facilitates searching across several NLM resources, including MEDLINE and PubMed Central. Coverage extends from the 1940s to the present day.
- MedlinePlus
An open database of health information geared toward the public, patients and families, with reliable information from the National Library of Medicine (connected with the more scholarly databases, PubMed and Medline) - Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library is a collection of databases for healthcare research and one of the foremost producers of systematic reviews in the health sciences
Selection of Core Journals
Special Resource: Grey Literature
Grey literature includes ongoing clinical trials, dissertations and theses, conference papers, and other unpublished materials. Findings here could be important to your research question, so it is a good idea to search for them. You can access some grey literature through these resources:
Searching for articles?
Here's a reminder of how to get started searching for journal articles using Hekman's Primo search.
- Primo Searching BasicsFor more, check out our How to videos here
Walking through Database Basics
Check out these tutorials from some of the sources listed here to walk through how to search in these databases and other features they offer.
- How to Use MeSH Video made by PubMed on how to search for MeSH terms
- PubMed for Nurses Tutorial with quizzes from PubMed
- CINAHL: Basic Searching Video tutorial from CINAHL