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What are Databases
- Research tools that help you find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, or other information sources like books, videos, and maps.
- Some focus on a kind of source (like newspaper articles); most of ours focus on scholarly research in a specific academic field.
(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)
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Tutorials on Searching Databases
- CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- SBU Libraries Research Strategies and Nursing Literature ReviewInformation from the SBU Libraries on researching a nursing literature review for students in course NUR 4333.
- SBU Libraries Evaluating ArticlesThis tutorial covers how to evaluate articles you have found through the library website to see if they will work for your research paper or project.
- PubMed for Librarians: IntroductionLearn about the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, how to run a basic PubMed search, how to assess your search results, where to find search details, how to customize PubMed with My NCBI, and different ways to search for a known citation. We also briefly introduce Medical subject headings (MeSH), automatic term mapping, search tags and subheadings.
Databases & Journals
- CINAHL CompleteThis database is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals. It is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
- Gale eBooksGale Virtual Reference Library has collections that cover topics such as medicine, multicultural studies, nations and the world, religions, as well as social sciences.
- Credo ReferenceCredo contains access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major topic from accounting to art history to Shakespeare to Einstein. Its topic pages offer an easy starting point and pathways for further research. Subjects contained include public health, sociology, health and medicine, global issues, and cultures.
- SocINDEXSocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
- Journal of Transcultural NursingConcerned with the influence of culture on nursing practice and the delivery of health care.
- Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and HealthcareFocuses on the provision of culturally congruent and competent nursing and healthcare for individuals, groups, communities and organizations.
- Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural PracticeInvites contributions directed towards a critical & theoretical understanding of cultural, political & social process.
- Cultural StudiesExplores the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical, & historical contexts.