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Overview of the best resources for researching within the health sciences.
Find the Best Resources for Your Research
Below are the "best bet" databases for researching within the health sciences, see descriptions of these research tools, their potential uses and the types of resources that can be discovered below.
CINAHL stands for Cumulated Index in Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL Complete provides indexing of over 3,800 top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Literature indexed in CINAHL covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. CINAHL also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and summarized evidence-based resources such as care sheets and quick lessons.
PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database it is maintained by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health, most articles have a full-text that you must link out to a publisher site
Find: articles on Evidence-Based practice, Medical, biological and scientific research articles
Database with over 355 full-text journals including 287 peer-reviewed journals
Find: articles on a wide range of medical disciplines for researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators
Access provided by BadgerLink, Wisconsin’s Online Library, providing Wisconsin residents with licensed educational content from multiple sources across a range of topics.