NURSING - ONLINE SOURCES
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7/15/2009
RECOMMENDED ONLINE ACCESS POINTS:
Access Whittemore Library’s nursing resources via the library tab in myFramingham or,directly, via the
Henry Whittemore Library Home Page:
http://framingham.edu/wlibrary.
ONLINE REFERENCE BOOKS
Use for general, factual information. Good for explanation of concepts.CREDO REFERENCE DATABASE Online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks,
including titles such as:
Churchill Livingstone’s Dictionary of Nursing. 19
th
ed. 2006, andBlack’s Medical Dictionary. 41
st
ed. 2006.To see the other nursing and medical reference books in this database, click on,“Find a Book,” then under, “All Subjects,” click on, “Medicine.”
PERIODICAL DATABASES
Use to search for information in magazine, journal, & newspaper articles
.
Major way to access the research literature of the field.
Key Nursing & Medical Databases
:
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied HealthLiterature) [EBSCOhost] 1937 –
(Major source. Indexes & abstracts 3,000+ nursing and allied health journals. Provides full text for hundreds of nursing journals. Most nursing-friendly database.)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition [EBSCOhost]1975 –
(Indexes many full-text nursing journals)
Health Reference Center Academic [InfoTrac / Gale]1980 –
(Indexes many full-text nursing journals)
OVID NURSING COLLECTION
A collection of 26 full-text nursing journals
.1996 – MEDLINE[EBSCOhost]1966 –
(a comprehensive index to medical, nursing & allied health journals [a subset of PubMed])
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