School
of Nursing and Academic Division of Midwifery
RLO: Using databases to find journal articles
Resources
To access these resources, you will need to have a valid username and password from a University that subscribes to these databases. Check with your local library for further information.
| Title/link | Description |
|---|---|
| CINAHL |
An American database covering healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials on nursing and related subjects from 1982 onwards. |
| British Nursing Index (BNI) |
Includes articles from the English language nursing journals published primarily in the UK. Coverage is from 1985 - and includes all aspects of nursing, midwifery and community healthcare. |
| Medline |
Medline is the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical and clinical medical literature. Medline provides access to approximately 3,700 medical journals, some in full text, as well as some books and conference proceedings from 1966 onwards. |
| PsycINFO |
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics. ) |
| Web of Science | Provides access to the Science, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities
Citation Index. It enables users to search multidisciplinary
information from over 8,500, high impact research journals in the world.
It also provides unique cited reference searching. |
Glossary
- ASSIA: The Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts covers literature on health, psychology, social services, economics, politics, race relations and educational issues published in the UK, Europe and the US.
- BNI: The British Nursing Index indexes journal articles in the subject areas of nursing, midwifery and allied health. The database only concentrates on articles that have a specifically UK perspective or that have been indexed in journals published in the UK.
- CINAHL: The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature indexes journal articles in the subject areas of nursing, midwifery and allied health. The database includes literature published internationally, although there is a heavy bias towards US literature.
- Databases: Databases index the bibliographic details of journal articles published in specific subject areas. They allow you to search for journal articles by keywords, author and other means and they also enable you to trace articles of relevance to your work. Some databases will also provide you with abstracts of the articles and in some cases, if your Institution subscribes to the journal, a link to a full-text copy of the article will be provided.
- Medline: The Medline database indexes journal articles in the subject area of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. The database is published in the US, however it also includes UK and European literature.
- PsycInfo: The PsycInfo database indexes journal articles in the subject areas of psychology, psychiatry and mental health and includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles. Some book chapters and dissertations are also included.
- Web of Science: The Web of Science, also sometimes referred to as the Web of Knowledge includes 3 separate indexes; the arts and humanities index, the social science index and the science index. These indexes can be searched separately to find journal articles relevant to the subject or can be cross-searched to find articles in multi-disciplinary subject areas.