There are many ways and places to search for literature. We recommend using some of the databases below for your search. If you need more help, or have a question that you can't find an answer to using these databases, contact your informationist for help.
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL® Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
Tip: Copy and paste the following into your search to limit to nursing specific literature:
AND ((MH "Nurses+") OR XB (nurse OR nurses OR nursing))
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. It contains more than 38 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
Tip: Copy and paste the following into your search to limit to nursing specific literature:
AND ("Nurses"[Mesh] OR "Nursing"[Mesh] OR "nurse"[tiab] OR "nurses"[tiab] OR "nursing"[tiab])
JBI is an independent research and development non-profit leading evidence-based practice (EBP) organizations.It's primary focus is nursing research and evidence.
Use Embase for broader searches with a world wide focus. Embase is also a great resource for conference abstracts, drug information, and device indexing.
Tip: Copy and paste the following into your search to limit to nursing specific literature:
'nurse'/exp OR 'nursing'/exp OR 'nurse':ti,ab,kw OR 'nurses':ti,ab,kw OR 'nursing':ti,ab,kw
There are many ways to stay up to date on current literature. We recommend using a combination of PubMed alerts, CINAHL alerts, Scopus alerts, and journal specific alerts.
To set up journal specific alerts, you will need to go to each journal's webpage and configure alerts individually.