Research Guides: Nursing: Databases & Articles

Search for Articles on a Specific Topic - Core Databases for Nursing

CINAHL [via EBSCOhost] This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Provides indexing for nursing and health journals. The database contains records dating back to 1982. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, and selected conference proceedings.

PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) [via EBSCOhost] This link opens in a new window
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HaPI is a bibliographic database produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, and is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health and psychosocial sciences. It provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.

Use these tips when you search for articles on a topic:

1. Start with a question

2. Identify key concepts in your question

3. Search for articles on each concept separately

Search using both Subject Headings and Keywords (words an author would use in a title or abstract of an article)

4. Combine searches using AND or OR

AND retrieves articles that discuss all of your keywords/topics in the same article
OR retrieves articles that discuss 1 or more of your terms/topics in the same article

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Temple University Libraries subscribes to many article and other types of databases that you may need to use at various points in your course work. This link will take you to an alphabetical listing of databases that you can search by subject. For example, if you need drug information you would type drugs into the search box and a list of links to databases on drugs would display.

Selected Nursing Journal Titles