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FINDING SCHOLARLY, FULL-TEXT NURSING ARTICLES IN LIBRARY DATABASESForsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
How to focus your search
Most databases have a way for
you to limit your search so you
only find articles of a certain type,
such as Peer-Reviewed (also called Scholarly or Refereed) or
Full-text (the complete article
is available).
This presentation will show where to find and use these limits in various nursing and public databases.
How to access the Nursing databases
Go to the Scholarly Articles page of the FHSU Nursing Research Guide
For a list of the best nursing databases:
http://fhsuguides.fhsu.edu/nursing*TigerTracks login required to access all but PubMed Central & Google Scholar
CINAHL (SIN-awl) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Cinahl offers more limiting options
than most databases, which
lets you perform a very precise
search. To start with, however, Full-
Text, Peer-Reviewed and
perhaps Research Article are
sufficient. If you select too many
limits, you may not find anything.
Limits your results to only those
citations which have a link to the complete article
Only articles that are reporting the results of a
research experiment. Note: an article can be from a
peer-reviewed journal but still not be a research article (could be an
editorial, book review, etc.)
Only articles which are from scholarly academic journals, and
have been examined by experts in that field (peer-reviewers). These articles are of the highest quality and contain the most trustworthy
information.
Check the bibliography of relevant articles to find additional articles:
Use the “cited references” link if one is available, or use the bibliography within the article.
To find full-text using a citation from an article’s bibliography, search Primo for the article title in quotes
If found, a link to the article will come up. Click “view It” then click the database link.
Cochrane Library
This database contains a wealth of evidence-based
data on treatments,
technologies, and more. The Systematic
Reviews are meta-analyses of many
studies of the same treatment, to reach a conclusion about its effectiveness as well as the quality of the research .
Trials are individual studies and may or may
not have a link to the full-text of the
article.
Use the quick search box, or click Advanced Search to combine terms
or use MeSH headings (Medical Subject Headings--uniform
terms for medical subjects)
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Cochrane Library results list
“Reviews” are completed and are full-text.
“Protocols” are reviews which have just begun, so very little information is available.
ProQuest Nursing
This database contains
articles from scholarly journals,
trade publications & magazines as
well as full-text
Dissertations. If you want to
view dissertations, do not limit to
Scholarly Journals.
Limit your search to Full-Text & Peer-Reviewed to find scholarly article citations which
have a link to the complete article.
Science Direct: Health & Life Sciences Collections
First, select “Advanced Search” in the green toolbar at the top.
Science Direct: Health & Life Sciences Collections
Type in your search terms
Select “Subscribed Publications” and
“Open Access Articles” so you’ll get only full-text results.
4. Select your subject (optional) or just leave it at All Sciences.
All articles in Science Direct are scholarly.
Sage Premier
Select Advanced Search
Sage Premier database contains
ONLY scholarly articles. It covers a
wide range of disciplines, including
Health Sciences.
Select “Sage Journals Available to Me” to get full-text articles.
or
Health Source:Nursing & Academic Edition
Health Source Nursing & Academic
Edition is an Ebscohost
database and can be
searched along with other Ebscohost
databases, like CINAHL, by
clicking “Choose
Databases”
Check the boxes for Full-Text & Scholarly
Health Source continued
If you forget to limit your
search on the first screen, you can use
the limit options on
the left side of the results
screen.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a subset of PubMed. All articles in PubMed Central are full-text, scholarly articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
Use the basic search, or click Advanced to combine terms
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches “articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions”. Some have links to the complete article. To begin, just search as you would search Google.
http://scholar.google.com
Advanced Search in Google Scholar
Once you have a list of results, click the arrow next to My Citations to
access Advanced Search, if needed.
Search Tip: Articles that cited your article
Looking for the articles that cited your article is a way of “researching forward”. For example, say you found an article you liked, but it was out of date. By “researching forward”, you can locate similar articles
that are more recent. Also, the number of times an article is cited gives you an idea of how much impact it had.
Links to Full-Text
Some articles are freely available online.
If a link doesn’t work, search for “the article title” in Primo:
Other ways to obtain full-text articles:
If you don’t find enough
articles when limiting your search to full-text, remove
that limit. Articles may
be available in other
databases, in print, or from
another library (Interlibrary
Loan)
Click Find It at Forsyth to search other databases for the complete article.
If found, a link to the article will be shown.
If not found, you can request the article from another library (Interlibrary Loan).
Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad)
If it is your first request, you’ll need to create an ILLiad account Then log in and request your items.
www.fhsu.edu/library/ill
Questions? Just ask!
Forsyth LibraryFort Hays State University785-628-4434refserv@fhsu.edu
Presentation created by MaryAlice Wade, Teaching & Research Librarian, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS 2014
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