Research Guides: Nursing Graduate Studies: Nurse Educator

Medical/Nursing

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Contains millions of citations for biomedical and health literature from MEDLINE and other sources. To access full text from Atkins Library's journal collections in addition to full-text content from PubMed Central and open access publications, use the links provided on Atkins Library web pages.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and full text articles primarily for nursing and allied health professionals. Coverage from 1937 to present.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health This link opens in a new window
This database includes scholarly journal articles, dissertations, and other sources covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Collaboration provides the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. The CDSR includes completed systematic reviews and meta-analyses completed according to Cochrane's rigorous methods, and protocols for systematic reviews in progress.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and full-text articles from more than 1000 nursing and allied health journals.

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Provides peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health and is produced by the American Psychological Association.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), this database provides indexing and abstracts for journals dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

ERIC Database (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Database of full-text journals in educational research.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Literature across all fields of science and social science. Comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science and social science. Provides access to more than 850 of Elsevier's primary research journals, which focus on scientific, medical, biomedical and technical areas.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Journals in the physical/life sciences and in the social sciences.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Journals, books, and book series in the sciences including: chemical sciences, computer science, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics from the publisher, Springer-Verlag.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Database of journals in business, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Coalition of National Health Education Organizations
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Online Evaluation Resource Library
This library was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. The purpose of this system is to collect and make available evaluation plans, instruments, and reports for NSF projects that can be used as examples by Principal Investigators, project evaluators, and others outside the NSF community as they design proposals and projects.
American Evaluation Association
The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.
Association for Community Health Improvement
Delivers education, professional development, peer networking and practical tools that help you expand your knowledge and enhance your performance in achieving community health goals

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Links to information on diseases and conditions and public health statistics.
Free or open source.
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Federal government data and statistics on disease.
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics
Health statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services