Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

CINAHL https://www

.ebscohost.com

/academic

/cinahl-plus-with

-full-text

CINAHL is the premier database covering the areas of

nursing and allied health. Online coverage is usually

comprehensive back to 1982 with monthly updates. This

proprietary site URL is for information only. Check with

your institution’s library to determine whether you have

subscriber access and through which vendor.

MEDLINE

via PubMed

Health

http://www.ncbi

.nlm.nih.gov

/pubmed/

Providing coverage of MEDLINE and other medical

sciences and biomedical literature back to the 1950s,

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of

Medicine, with free access on the Internet to more than

17 million citations. This link is to the free version available

on the Internet; your library might provide access to

other vendor-created versions that provide a familiar

search environment and then also link directly to library

resources (and it is called MEDLINE, not PubMed).

PubMed

Clinical

Queries

http://www.ncbi

.nlm.nih.gov

/pubmed/clinical

The Clinical Queries search supports specialized

PubMed queries for clinicians in areas of clinical studies,

systematic reviews, and medical genetics.

Joanna Briggs

Institute EBP

Database

http://

joannabriggs.org/

The institute was established in 1996 to offer collaboration

in EBP with healthcare professionals and researchers

across the professional continuum in more than

40 countries. JBI is considered one of the foundational

providers of EBP information. This proprietary site URL is

for information only. Check with your institution’s library

to determine whether you have subscriber access.

The Cochrane

Collaboration

and Library

http://www

.cochranelibrary

.com/

An international not-for-profit organization, the

collaboration seeks to provide timely, up-to-date

research evidence. Not a physical entity, the Cochrane

Library is a database collection, providing access to

systematic reviews, controlled trials, methodology

registry, technology assessment, and more. DARE

(Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) is also part

of the library. This proprietary site URL is for information

only. Check with your institution’s library to determine

whether you have subscriber access.

Google

Scholar

http://scholar

.google.com/

Google Scholar allows you to use the familiarity of Google

to search the Internet in an interdisciplinary way. Citation

results are scholarly in nature and direct you to full

content if it is available on the Internet. Google Scholar

also partners with libraries to set up linking with their

full-content resources. Your librarian can tell you whether

this is possible in your system.

TABLE 4-1 Subject-Specific Databases

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