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Nursing Research 

 

Session provided by:
Stacy L. Voeller, Electronic Resources Librarian
Livingston Lord Library, MSUM
voeller@mnstate.edu
477-2348

Off campus and want to search the databases?  Go to MSUM's LibProxy and follow the instructions.

MnPALS Library Catalog  Search for books & items on reserve.

MSUM's A-to-Z, online serials directory (through EBSCO)
This directory will guide you by title or subject to the library's collection of online journals, and tell you whether or not we subscribe to them in paper, or if they are available electronically online in one of our databases.
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CINAHL (through ProQuest)
Designed specifically for nursing programs in academic institutions as well as hospital libraries, CINAHL PlusText covers a wide range of topics, including nursing, allied health, alternative therapies, biomedicine, consumer health, and health administration. This database offers over 1,200 titles (with more than 260 in full text) and coverage from 1982 to the present.

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Nursing Journals Full-Text Collection (through ProQuest)
Offering complete information from leading nursing and related publications, this database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions.  This database offers complete text and images from such journals as OTJR; Occupation, Particiaption and Health; Physical Therapy; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of Nursing Scholarship; Nursing Economics; and Journal of Rehabilitation.  For several publications, full-text coverage dates from 1992. For some, full-image articles go back to 1988; Text+Graphics, to 1996. Overall, articles in the full-text formats are available from more than 400 publications.
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Nursing & Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (through CSA)
Includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 7,000 articles. It covers such subjects as nursing, social studies of health, nursing research, health services & administration, community / public health nursing, qualitative research, cultural studies, child psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, adult health nursing, public health, public policy & public administration, health psychology, aging and gerontology, health communication, family studies, physiology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, pediatrics, holistic nursing, nursing theory, pediatric nursing, autism, mental disorders & learning disability, health education & health promotion, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, psychopathology, health evaluation, research methods & evaluation, dementia, and sociology of the family.
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PsycARTICLES (through CSA)
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.
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PsycINFO (through CSA)
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.  Includes materials published worldwide from 1840-present.

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Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (through CSA)
Includes the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 36 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences 

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FirstSearch Databases  
FirstSearch covers 49 databases ranging in subject areas from Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Conferences & Proceedings, Consumer Affairs & People, Education, Engineering & Technology, General & Reference, General Science, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, News & Current Events, Public Affairs & Law, and Social Sciences.

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Gale - Professional Collection.
Part of the Gale/IAC databases suite, the Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. It offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities; literature; school law; science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training.

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Ingenta
Ingenta indexes nearly 29,000 English language multidisciplinary periodicals in  its database. Five thousand citations are added daily.  To search the entire database, you'll need to do two separate searches.  One in Electronic content and then one in Fax/Ariel content.

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PubMed
This vast database by the U.S. National Library of Medicine recently gained a new interface described at the site as "a single search interface with pull-down menus that display search field limits, indexes, your search history, and a clipboard for gathering selected articles."

EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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EBSCO - MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for 1,830 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and a wide variety of general interest topics.

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Physical Education Index (through CSA)
CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.  For more information on this database, please go to:  http://md1.csa.com/csa/factsheets/pei.shtml

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Social Services Abstracts  (through CSA)
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development, and is updated monthly.  Major areas of subject coverage include:  Community development; Crisis intervention; Evaluation research; The family and social welfare; Gerontology; Policy, planning, forecasting; Poverty and homelessness; Professional issues in social work; Social development; Social work education; Support groups/networks; Violence, abuse, neglect; and Welfare services.  Published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1980 - current.
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Sociological Abstracts (through CSA)
Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, and is updated monthly.  The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.  Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.  Major areas of subject coverage include:  Community development; Culture and social structure; Demography and human biology; Environmental interactions; Evaluation research; Family and social welfare; History and theory of sociology; Management and complex organizations; Mass phenomena and political interactions; Methodology and research technology; Policy, planning, forecast and speculation; Radical sociology; Rural and urban sociology; Economic development; Social development; Social differentiation; Social psychology and group interaction; Sociology of the arts, business, education; Health and medicine and law; Religion and science; Studies in violence and power; Welfare services; and Women's studies.  Published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1963 - current.

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Wilson Web
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Standard CatalogsEducation Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

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Check on or submit an InterLibrary Loan request

Instructions for the option to have articles electronically sent, or sent via mail or fax.

Journals owned by MSUM:

The American journal of nursing. 
ANS, Advances in nursing science. 
Applied nursing research : ANR. 
Archives of psychiatric nursing. 
CIN plus. 
Computers in nursing. 
For your information. 
Geriatric nursing. 
Image--the journal of nursing scholarship. 
The Journal of nursing education. 
The Journal of nursing administration. 
The Journal of continuing education in nursing. 
Journal of gerontological nursing. 
Journal of emergency nursing : JEN.
The Journal of practical nursing. 
Journal of community health nursing. 
Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. 
Journal of nursing scholarship. 
MCN, the American journal of maternal child nursing. 
Nursing. 
Nursing outlook. 
Nursing forum. 
Nursing research. 
Nurse educator. 
Nursing administration quarterly. 
Nursing management.
Nursing times : NT.
Nursing diagnosis : ND : the official journal of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association.  
The online journal of knowledge synthesis for nursing.
Research in nursing & health. 
RN.
Western journal of nursing research. 

Modified by SLV 10/30/2007