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Prenursing -- General Research Guide: Finding Articles

This is a guide for prenursing students in the LINK program. It helps you find articles through databases, locate the books you need, and evaluate web sites and articles.

Databases for Nursing and Allied Health

Nursing and Health Databases


CINAHL Plus with Full Text


CINAHL Plus with Full Text



CINAHL Plus with Full Text Evidence Based Care is the premier nursing and allied health database. It not only lists articles in scholarly journals and features consistent and detailed subject headings for easy searching once you are familiar with the language of nursing, it also offers evidence based medicine sources under their own blue tab.

To help you learn to use CINAHL Plus with Full Text try Step by Step with CINAHL Plus.

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EBSCO Health Source -- Nursing and Academc Edition


GALILEO offers a variety of databases for nursing and other health related topics. There is no one best place to start your research. Try different databases, and search for articles in the resource with which you feel most comfortable.


EBSCO Health Soruce

EBSCO Health Source EBSCO Health Source' medical dictionary is a database offering mainly readable, full text articles on health, nursing, and medicine. Health Source is the place to go when you need detailed health or medical information. Health Source also features a medical dictionary, visual searching, and My EBSCOHost where you can store your research in a folder on the database' server.

To learn more about searching EBSCO Health Source, try Step by Step with EBSCO Health Source.

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ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source



ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source is another choice for full text, nursing and health related articles.

ProQuest offers facets to help you find videos or evidence based care summaries as well as scholarly/professional articles. To learn more about searching ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source try Step by Step with ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source.

ProQuest search facets for Source Type