Nursing Research Guide: Articles

Find nursing-related articles, conference proceedings, care sheets, practice acts, guidelines and many other document and publication types that support nursing and related professions. Remember to use the built-in 'CINAHL Headings' thesaurus to explore and discover subject heading vocabulary used by CINAHL to express the concepts you're interested in.

Find journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and other publication types across a broad range of psych-related disciplines, including psychiatry, education, business, computers, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Use the built-in 'Thesaurus' tool to explore and identify the vocabulary PsycInfo uses to express the concepts you're interested in.

Find articles and other document types covering an extremely broad range of biomedical/clinical research. Use PubMed's "MeSH" (Medical Subject Heading) Database to explore and identify the vocabulary used by the database to express the concepts you're interested in.

Find more articles relating to nursing and allied health professions (this database contains useful content you won't find in CINAHL).

Get information & journal article references relating to measurement/assessment instruments (e.g. questionnaires; rating scales; tests; indexes; coding schemes) used in the research of health, psychosocial & behavioral sciences.

SPORTDiscus is the main database for finding Physical Activity & Exercise related literature. It contains more than 670 full-text journals, Books, Book chapters, Conference proceedings, Journal articles and more.

Use this collection to find information across a collection of three separate ProQuest databases (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and the Sociology Database) that addresses social, cultural, ethnic, racial, gender and other aspects that relate to social groups and your health topic.

Find articles from journal publications oriented towards the social aspects of health, medicine & wellness.

Find articles and other document types relating to gender and sexuality.

Find articles from a very broad range of different subjects, in addition to nursing and health.

Use ERIC to find journal articles, reports and other documents relating to a wide range of education & training topics that relate to nursing, health care, medicine, and caring professions in general.

Find articles from across thousands of science, health & social science journals and book chapters published by Elsevier.

Find high quality, independent evidence-based health care information (protocols, methods, trials, evaluations and assessments) from six different Cochrane Library databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed systematic reviews produced by the Review Group of The Cochrane Collaboration.

Find physician-authored evidence-based information intended to support clinical decision-making at the point-of-care. UpToDate’s decision-support information is integrated with evidence-based drug and drug interaction information from Lexicomp. Use the library link above to register and set up your DePaul UpToDate account. Once your account is created, you will be able to use the mobile app.
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