Databases
- Nursing
- Consumer Health
- Interdisciplinary
- News and Legislation
- Encyclopedias, Directories, etc.
- Clinical Trials
- Grants
- Dissertations
Nursing
CINAHL- Covers nursing, nursing education, and allied health topics 1937-present.
- Find care plans, case studies, legal cases, research studies, and more.
- Use the link above if you need to do a thorough search of nursing literature.
- pre-CINAHL has been merged with CINAHL
- Indexes and abstracts articles from more that 3200 medical, health, and nutrition journals. UNCG offers several versions of this database.
- Years of coverage vary; PubMed covers 1953-present and is updated daily
- More info on PubMed
- Try Medline Plus (collection of consumer health materials)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Provides full text for approx. 480 scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also contains indexing and abstracts for an additional 500 journals.
- More info
EBSCO Health and Nursing Database Family
- Search CINAHL and many other databases at the same time
- You will see articles for nursing and also education, sciences, social sciences, and popular (lay) health
- You will not be able to use guides to subject headings.
- Databases that you will be searching: CINAHL, ERIC, Academic Search Premier, Health Source Nursing, MasterFILE Premier
- More info
Consumer Health
Basic information on health topics for the layman.
- Designed to meet the information needs of patients
- Includes encyclopedia entries, fact sheets, news and journal articles, images and videos, and several consumer drug guides
Health Source, Consumer Edition
- Popular articles on topics such as medicine, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and wellness
Interdisciplinary
- Guide to when, where, and how often articles have been cited
- Covers peer reviewed research journals in the sciences and social sciences, including 82 nursing journals
- 1955-present
- More info
- Covers psychology and related areas (including mental health nursing and pharmacology)
- Indexes articles, books, chapters in books and dissertations.
- More info
- Guide to education and related topics.
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Includes journals in nursing, medicine, and public health.
- Dates of coverage vary by title; full text from about 1990 to date
- More info
- Indexes and abstracts over 5,000 general periodical and scholarly journals, including medical and nursing journals
- Some full text for over 2,100 journals
- 1980 to present
- More info
- Thousands of evidence-based medicine literature reviews
- Very medical focus, but also includes nursing interventions, transition to home care, and other topics of interest
- Reviews are indexed in CINAHL
- More info
- Physical and social gerontology.
- More info
- Women's, men's, and sexual diversity studies.
- More info
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
- Descriptions of tests, measures and research instruments.
- These research instruments are UNPUBLISHED, which means they aren't sold by a testing company.
- You may be able to find the full text of the instrument by looking in the journal article or book chapter or other source listed in the source field of your results.
News and Legislation
- News (including medical news), business, and legal research
- More info
For more newspaper sources, see the Jackson Library Newspaper Guide
- News from the ethnic, minority, and native press.
- (1990s-present) Some back to 1960s.
- More info
- Search or browse U.S. congressional information (bills, laws, testimony).
- More info
- Weekly summaries of U.S. Congressional activity
- 1983 to present
- More information on CQ Weekly
Encyclopedias, Directories, etc.
- Fulltext of over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials, including A Dictionary of Nursing and other medical dictionaries.
- More info
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of a wide variety of encyclopedias on all subjects, including health science.
- More info
- Guide to 650,000 physicians and dentists, plus businesses and residences
- Find location, affiliation, primary specialty, medical school attended, licensure, patients and prescriptions/week, etc.
- Custom searches, based on any combination of many values, are possible.
- More info
Clinical Trials
- List of clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other federal agencies, private industry, nonprofit organizations.
- Wide range of disease studies, from Abdominal Neoplasms to Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome
- Includes studies from all 50 states and over 100 countries.
- Includes contents of other NIH clinical studies databases such as CancerNet/PDQ.
- More info on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Help using this resource
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Science Projects)
Information on research supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Includes biomedical topics.
- Some overlap with clinicaltrials.gov, contains some records not found in clinicaltrials.gov
- 1972-current fiscal year
- More info on CRISP
- Help using this resource
HNRIM (Human Nutrition Research Information Management)
Descriptions of fully or partially federally funded nutrition research projects.
- If you are looking for human nutrition trials, start here rather than at the more general guides to clinical studies.
- Examples of topics: maternal nutrition, infant and child nutrition, nutrition of the elderly.
- Searchable by nutrient name.
- 1985-present
- More info on HRIM
- Help using this database
Grants
- Database of funding opportunities.
- More info
- Grants available in North Carolina.
- More info
More on Grants from the Virtual Reference Shelf
Dissertations
- Dissertations and Theses: Full Text
- A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses
- More info on Dissertations and Theses: Full Text
- Dissertations & Theses@UNCG
- Provides the full text of UNCG dissertations and theses published after 1996. Provides abstracts for earlier years.
- More info on Dissertations & Theses@UNCG
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Lea
Leininger
Nursing Librarian
