Subject Guides: Nursing: Articles & Databases

Finding Articles

To find magazine/journal articles about Nursing, try the library databases listed to the right. Other databases can be found on the Libraries databases page.

Print Journals

If you'd like to physically browse through journals on this topic, you can do so on the 4th floor of RBD Library.

The R classification is for all aspects of medicine with RT the section dedicated to nursing. However, specific types of nursing may be found in other sections, for example, surgical nursing is found in RD 99- RD 99.35, ophthalmic nursing is found in RE 88 and pediatric nursing in RJ 245 - RJ 247.

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Journal Abbreviations

PubMed/Medline Journal Abbreviations
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All Databases

Click the links below to see all Auburn Databases by either title or subject area.

Databases

Nursing/Medical

JBI EBP The JBI EBP Database provides up to date evidence-based information and guidance for health professionals to inform decisions made at the point of care. JBI was previously known as the Joanna Briggs Institute.
UpToDate

CINAHL Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full text of the literature related to nursing and allied health fields from 2,960 journals. 1981-present.
PubMed Comprises more than 21 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.
Alt-HealthWatch Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
Cochrane Library Systematic reviews to inform healthcare decision making
Embase Biomedical medical literature database that allows users to build comprehensive systemic reviews. Includes content from 1947 to the present indexed using unique Ebase subject headings and the Emtree life science thesaurus.
Health Source: Consumer Edition A collection of consumer health information including full-text consumer health magazines, searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and many health reference books.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Provides access to full text journals and other periodicals focusing on the nursing disciplines. Also includes abstracts and indexing for other journals
Natural Medicines More than 1200 monographs focused on dietary supplements; natural medicines; and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies. Additional monographs cover health and wellness and sports medicine. Also includes tools to check for interactions, effectiveness, nutrient depletion, and adverse effects of natural medicines as well as impacts on pregnancy and lactation.

Psychology

APA PsycINFO Contains summaries of the world's journal literature in psychology and related disciplines, as well as dissertations and technical reports. Covers over 1300 journals in over 30 languages from approximately 50 countries. To integrate behavioral information from other fields, PsycINFO scans publications from related disciplines such as sociology, linguistics, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology, and represents those relevant to psychology.
APA PsycARTICLES PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. PsycARTICLES covers 53 journals, 1985-present, and provides both PDF and HTML formats.

Business/Economics/Management

Business Source Premier Provides full text articles for business journals--and other periodicals--covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business.
EconLit Produced by the American Economics Association, EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals. EconLit source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The database contains more than 350,00 records and covers subjects from accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and more. The database contains records from 1969-present with approximately 15,000 records added annually.

General Science

Anatomy.TV 3D computer-generated models of human anatomy. Images may be manipulated by rotating, zooming, and peeling away layers while viewing accompanying text. Also contains interactive quizzes. Auburn University Libraries subscribes to three sections of Anatmomy.tv: 1) Audiology, SLP, and Head and Neck Neuroanatomy, 2) General Human Anatomy and Physiology, and 3) Functional Anatomy.
ScienceDirect NOTE: To limit to Nursing, click search (in the green toolbar) and then in the subject area, choose Nursing and Health Professions.
Scopus Comprehensive abstract and citation database of scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes coverage from 1788 to present with over 90 million records.
Web of Science Web of Science is the online version of the print and CD-ROM versions of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & humanities citation index; Science citation index (called Science citation index expanded, in online version); and, Social sciences citation index. (5 simultaneous users)

Database Tutorials

PubMed Tutorials Tip sheets and brief animated tutorials with audio.

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Nursing: Articles & Databases