Searching Guides
- Limiting PubMed to Nursing Journals Journal categories & more subsets Select journal categories can be added to the sidebar using the Additional Filters button: Dental journals MEDLINE Nursing journals The Journal/Citation subsets restrict retrieval to specialized journals or articles on specialized topics in other journals. The table below lists the journal subsets, along with the code used for searching. Some subsets are closed and are no longer being assigned to current data. To search for a Journal/Citation subset, enter in the search box: jsubset?, where ? represents the subset code. The Journal/Citation subset does not require a search tag. Subset Code Journal/Citation Subset AIM Abridged Index Medicus is a list created in 1970 of approximately 120 core clinical English language journals that corresponds to "Core clinical journals" journal category selection in filters. D Dentistry journals E Citations from bioethics journals or selected bioethics citations from other journals H Health administration journals, non-Index Medicus IM Index Medicus journals K Consumer health journals N Nursing journals Q History of medicine journals and selected citations from other journals QIS Citations from non-Index Medicus journals in the field of history of medicine S Citations from space life sciences journals and selected space life sciences citations from other journals T Health technology assessment journals, non-Index Medicus X AIDS/HIV journals (selected citations from other journals 1980-2000) PubMed Central Subset To restrict retrieval to citations that have a free full-text article available in PubMed Central (PMC), search pubmed pmc[sb]. Use the PMID/PMCID/NIHMSID Converter to convert IDs for publications referenced in PubMed and PMC. To retrieve citations that include an NIHMS ID use the query, hasnihmsid. Citation Status Subsets The citation status indicates the internal processing stage of an article in the PubMed database (see PubMed Citation Status Subsets). To search for a particular citation status, enter one of the search terms below followed by the [sb] search tag: publisher inprocess medline pubmednotmedline To search for the total number of PubMed citations, enter all[sb] in the search box.
Evidence Based Practice
- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for NursesFull text ebook provided by the NLM
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE): Quality-assessed ReviewsFull text ebook from the National Library of Medicine
Nursing Literature Databases
- Alt-HealthWatchFull text articles, reports, conference proceedings, pamphlets and newsletters dealing with complementary and alternative medicine, including holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- CINAHL Plus with Full TextScholarly articles and other publications on nursing, biomedicine, and consumer health.
- Coronavirus Research DatabaseIncluding coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic. Available for free from ProQuest to support online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionFull text for hundreds of scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with a particular focus on nursing and allied health.
- MedicLatinaSpanish-language medical research and investigative journals from Spanish and Latin American medical publishers.
- PsycINFO 1887-CurrentThe premier index to journal articles and other scholarly publications in the field of psychology.
- PsycNETAPA PsycNET is a search platform designed specifically to deliver American Psychological Association content, enabling users to efficiently search and discover behavioral science related material with engineered cross-database searching. The platform features full integration of APA's precise indexing with the controlled vocabulary of the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
- PubMedA service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
- R2 Digital LibraryA portal to full text ebooks in medicine, nursing and allied health from key health science publishers. Available titles include the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Please note: access to titles in this collection is limited to one user at a time. If the book you're trying to access is currently in use by another user, you'll see a note advising you to try later.
