Some assignments require that you find articles from peer-reviewed nursing or medical journals. These databases provide these journals as well as professional nursing magazines:
Why use reference book articles? Reference book articles give you a broad overview of a disease or other health topic. When starting out doing research, it is always good to find a reference book article to learn the history of a disease or health problem, its causes and treatments, etc. Then find more recent articles in the nursing journal databases.
Print reference books: There are many good medical reference books available on the 2nd floor of the library, medical encyclopedias and dictionaries, and also all-topic handbooks such as the Nurses 3-Minute Clinical Reference. These are all in the R section (subject=Medicine) of the Reference location. Copy articles from books at the copier by the elevator. Most reference books arrange topics in alphabetical order. Or, look for topic words in the index, usually in back of the last volume of a set. For example, see the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, a 4-volume set in the RT section of reference.
Reference books in databases: There are a number of databases that have medical reference books:
Use the Full Text Finder to find out what magazines, journals, and newspapers we have available, both in print and online.
If you have a specific article you are trying to find, and you need to know if we have it, open Full Text Finder, type in the name of the magazine, journal or newspaper. Check the Journals only, radio button to eliminate eBooks titles. The databases that have the magazine, journal or newspaper are shown, as well as print or microfilm holdings. Time periods for the holdings are also shown. Click links to open databases. Years are available for finding the exact volume and issue needed. Then look for the article by title of the article or by page number.
If you have the complete citation for a specific article, try using the tab "Linksource Citation Finder." Fill in the information and it will try to find the exact article in a database for you.
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