Research Guides: Canvas_Nursing: Getting Started

Recommended Databases

AccessAnesthesiology This comprehensive online anesthesiology resource covers the entire spectrum of anesthesiology from the basics to specialty-specific content
AccessMedicine AccessMedicine is continually updated resource that gives you access to leading medical books.
EBSCO Health Databases This searches all of the EBSCO Health databses that Grafton Subscribes to, including CINAHL, MEDLine, Health Source, the Cochrane Library, and more.
DynaMed Plus DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool, designed to provide caregivers with evidence-based, point-of-care information, including overviews and recommendations, drug information, graphics, and images.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Anna and Harry Borun Center for Gerontological Research
Center for Biofilm Engineering
Center for the Study of the History of Nursing The Barbara Bates Center is the preeminent history of nursing research center and archive.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Health in Aging
Health Resources and Services Administration
History of Vaccines Multimedia site documenting the istory, and controversies, of vaccinations, includes articles, timelines, and primary documents.
Medical Heritage Library
Population Reference Bureau PRB analyzes and disseminates information about populations and their health and well-being
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
TED Talks: Health Talks and performances from TED conferences.
World Food Situation Contains information on the world food situation including commodities, food situation indicators and reports on short and long term market issues.

CINAHL Complete CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
MEDLINE Complete Combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

PubMed Central A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journals.
PubMed PubMed® comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycNET APA PsycNET offers the combined resources of the PsycArticles, PsycINFO, and PsycBooks. Covers psychology and related fields such as psychiatry, sociology, education, and communication.
ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Collection Full text articles in health, medicine, and life sciences.
Alt HealthWatch Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It includes full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Database of Abstracts of Reviews and Effects DARE includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria.

SocINDEX with Full Text A comprehensive sociology research database, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Access to 2.1 million records, including journal articles, books/monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content.

NCBI MeSH MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
History of Medicine The NLM History of Medicine Division (HMD) collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world’s richest collections of historical material related to health and disease.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world.
MyHealthfinder From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; links to health news and information.
PSNet: Patient Safety Network AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet) is a national web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
WomensHealth.gov A project of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. The goal of the office is to improve the health of American women. This website provides health information regarding women's issues.

CDC Wonder Query numeric data sets about mortality (deaths), cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, natality (births), census data and many other topics are available for query.
FCSM The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) is an interagency committee dedicated to improving the quality of Federal statistics.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations: Hunger Statistics and informational reports on hunger around the world.
National Center for Health Statistics
Statistical Abstracts of the United States Provides statistics on a variety of topics including health facilities & expenditures, social insurance, and human services.