Nurse Practitioner: Nursing Databases - Journals and Books

Definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals, providing full-text access to more than 1,300 journals, evidence-based care sheets and more.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that focus on current best evidence in healthcare.
The content is relevant, valid research about the effects of different forms of healthcare.
One of the databases within this file is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews which are "systematic assessments of evidence of the effects of healthcare interventions."
This data is taken from the provider's web site.

Abstracts and indexes nearly 850 scholarly journals, almost 550 of these titles provide full text access to articles.
Another feature is the Lexi-Pal Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. This data was taken from the vendor's information page on EBSCOHost Web.

Full text access to almost 80 consumer health magazines, more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets, 130 health reference books, and the Merriam-Webster's Desk Dictionary.
Though not considered scholarly, it is useful for an introduction to health topics and can be a good source when considering patient education.
This data was taken from the vendor's information page on EBSCOHost Web.

"All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing." This database is not full-text but has more than 19,000 sources and over 21,000,000 records. Medline has been sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine since 1950 and is updated on a daily basis.

"PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Please note, however, that free access does not mean that there is no copyright protection. As described on our copyright page publishers and individual authors continue to hold copyright on the material in PMC and users must abide by the terms defined by the copyright holder."

R2 Library provides digital content of health books. The home screen displays three fields that you can use to focus your search - medicine, nursing or allied health. You may also choose to search by topic within a filed or search all fields simultaneously.
Features include: 1) table of contents for every book, 2) images that can be enlarged and reproduced as they appear in the print version, 3) content that can be printed or emailed, and 4) you can create a bibliography.
This data is taken from the R2 Library web site.

Almost three dozen medical books are offered in full-text format. In most cases the edition will be the most recent version available.
This link takes you to the topic page; you can click on 'Medicine' on the left side of the screen to bring up a list of books in the health field.
Some titles include: Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing; Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary; Key Concepts in Nursing; and Black's Medical Dictionary, 42nd Edition.

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- Multiple search and navigation options
- Chapter ranking of search results
- Personal bookshelves
- Highlighting and annotating
- Text-to-hyperlinks
- Text-to-speech
- Automatic citations
all on over 86,000 ebooks!