Key Nursing Journals and Databases
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowA resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and full-text of top nursing and allied health journals and non-journal content such as Quick Lessons, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, & Continuing Education Modules
- OVID Nursing Full Text + Emcare This link opens in a new window
Ovid’s nursing books and journals span traditional specialty areas like pain management, maternity care, surgical nursing, nursing management, and evidence-based nursing. They include clinically-relevant tools in diagnosis and care procedures, practitioner journals, references for nurse education and CME, resources for nursing administrators, and foundational research literature.
Emcare, produced by Elsevier, covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises more than 23 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.
- Cochrane LibraryKey resource for evidence-based practice. Great source for finding systematic reviews, which evaluate and synthesize empirical evidence that meets pre-specified eligibility criteria to answer a specific research question.
- MEDLINE This link opens in a new windowEverything in MEDLINE is also available via the free PubMed database, but MCLA's MEDLINE subscription provides the additional functionality of the EBSCO interface.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature using the familiar Google interface. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. If you are off-campus, use these instructions to set it up for full access to library resources.
