UPDATE: As of January 20, 2025, many government agencies have removed reports, documents, data sets, and other non-academic/grey literature sources from their web sites due to executive orders from the current administration.
This database provides a detailed index and full text of scholarly articles in nursing and allied health literature, including biomedicine and consumer health, scholarly journals, evidence-based practice guidelines, and other publications. Additional materials include full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and continuing education modules.
A 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.
Full-text articles from hundreds of peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences journals.
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Journals by Title: This search identifies scholarly journals and links to full text the library has available.
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory: Entries include information about whether the journal or magazine is a scholarly journal, consumer magazine, etc.
Research Databases: Some allow you to limit your search to scholarly journals.
Paper journals: Frequently include instruction for authors in the front or back of the journal. Some instructions will use the phrase "peer reviewed." Others will say that manuscripts are sent for blind review, reviewed by a committee, or anonymously reviewed.