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Articles

ARTICLES provide a shorter treatment of your topic or focus on one particular aspect of your topic. Note: Databases are used to locate articles.

Please review How to Read and Comprehend Scientific Research Articles.

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is a comprehensive database of nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals. Records date from1937-present.
CINAHL
HealthSource This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines including nursing and allied health journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature, many with links to full text documents.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Please note: The currency of material in PubMed Central varies by journal. Many journals make their content available in PMC as soon as it is published. Others may delay release of content in PMC for anywhere from a few months to more than a year after publication. Most journals provide free access to full text in PMC within a year of publication

Peer Review Process

Peer Review in 3 Minutes
A video from North Carolina State University that explains the peer review process.

Science Open
A freely accessible search and discovery platform that indexes research articles from trusted repositories such as PubMed, Elsevier, etc.
Ingenta
Ingenta indexes research articles from 13,000 publications. It provides researchers with online access to the full text of electronic articles through online purchase of individual articles, or through subscriptions to publications.
PLOS ONE
PLOS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/): provides free access to science-related information. It publishes peer reviewed journals in biology, medicine, and genetics.
Google Scholar
A search engine that indexes academic information from various online web resources. Google Scholar lists information across an array of academic resources.

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