Other Nursing Databases – Part 1 Finding Journal Full Text Articles; ProQuest Nursing Journals; Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Finding Full Text Articles Using the IWU Databases

Finding full text articles Let’s say you were researching continuing education in the hospital. Using CINAHL you found several good articles that were peer-reviewed but not available full text in CINAHL. How do you know if/where these articles are available? Let’s find out. Using the Journal Search engine will save you a lot of time as you do your research!

You have a citation in CINAHL. Is it available full text in CINAHL You have a citation in CINAHL. Is it available full text in CINAHL? Is it full text someplace else?

Is it full text someplace else? You can also locate articles that are not full text in CINAHL but may be in another IWU database or available in paper in the IWU Library. Let’s see how! Note the Get it! link.

This article is available in a couple of other IWU databases, including the journal publisher. The button takes you directly to the article that is stored at the publisher’s website, Wiley.

You can also use the journal search tool to locate the journal. Sometimes the red Get it! button “misfires.” You can simply check directly in the Journal Search tool.

Start at the OCLS homepage, http://www2.indwes.edu/ocls Click on: Journal Titles (under Key Links) You may need to authenticate (library access #) Type in the name of the journal title—not article title.

This tells you where/how it is available. This one is available from several databases But note that for some, there is a 1 year Delay of the most current year. The Publisher, Wiley has the full range of years.

Let’s say you were searching in CINAHL and came across this article Let’s say you were searching in CINAHL and came across this article. The Get it! button would tell you it was only available in the library. Request it from OCLS for a scanned copy of the article.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

ProQuest Nursing Journals Subscription based database (needs IWU authentication library access number). Provides full text, cover to cover content for several hundred nursing related journals. Allows keyword searching and publication searching. Allows for printing, emailing or saving the articles.

Start at OCLS home page http://www.indwes.edu/ocls Click on: Nursing (under Article Databases) Locate: ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source. You will need to authenticate with your library 14-digit library access number.

You can do a keyword search; use multiple rows to use Boolean searching.

This search yields a lot This search yields a lot! We can get a smaller result by limiting to Full Text and/or Peer reviewed. The search results also gives Related Searches to search. [Note: if you try this search your number will likely be different as these databases are updated daily.]

Perhaps we can bring the result down significantly by limiting to Peer reviewed, full text, and adding another term, nurses. We still have a lot of results!

The number of references is given for some articles. Links to the full text (if available) are also shown under each citation.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic EBSCOHost databases

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Subscription based database. Provides some full text content for over hundreds of nursing related journals and an additional 300 that provide indexing. Allows subject and keyword searching and publication searching. Allows for printing, emailing or saving the articles.

Start at OCLS home page http://www2.indwes.edu/ocls Click on: Nursing (under Article Databases) Locate: Health Source: Nursing/Academic You will need to authenticate with your MyIWU credentials OR your library 14-digit library access number.

You can do a keyword search as this is the default search.

Or, you can do a subject search… 1. Click on Subjects, 2. type one of the topics in the Browsing: text box. 3. Click on: Browse. 4. Click on Continuing Education allows you to see related topics and 5. check mark as many as you need. 6. Click on Search. Repeat for each topic.

For the 2nd term, click on Subjects; type: Hospitals; Browse; click on Hospitals to see Related terms. Check mark any that apply.

When on the results screen, click on Search History.

The last search you did is already in the Search box. So, just check mark the first search and click on the Search with AND. The new results will be available below the Search History area.

Your results are less than the first keyword search in this database, but the results are probably more relevant to your topics.

When full text is available, you can display it and save, email or print it

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