Click here to see a list of the most important subscription databases for nursing.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) - Provides comprehensive coverage of both the practical and theoretical literature in nursing from 1981 to the present. Includes indexing from over 500 nursing journals. Updated weekly.
EBSCO, producer of CINAHL, maintains a YouTube channel with tutorials on using the databases. See if there is something to answer your questions. The tutorials are usually a few minutes in length. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBC_CPlZqhatEZJN_oIldtg
Dissertations and Theses (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/indexes/digital_diss) - Includes records for U.S. dissertations from 1861 and foreign dissertations beginning in the year 1637. Many are available ful-text. Looking for a dissertation submitted to another university? Try Googling the title. Many university libraries make the dissertations available in electronic format through their digital repositories.
Medline – From the National Library of Medicine, indexes the content of 4,600 biomedical journals. Includes coverage from 1950 to the present. Nursing journal subset limits results to citations from 250 titles in nursing. Equivalent to former print index, International Nursing Index. Updated daily
Ovid provides a comprehensive 30 minute tutorial on the use of Medline. There are several sections so feel free to choose what you want from the left sidebar. https://www.brainshark.com/wkovid/vu?pi=zGizVDdlez34XJz0&cmpid=Brainshark:MedlineIntro
PsycINFO – Provides citations and abstract for the scholarly literature in psychology from 1872 to the present. Includes indexing from more than 2,000 journals in multiple languages. Updated weekly.
Ovid provides a comprehensive 30 minute tutorial on the use of PsycINFO. There are several sections so feel free to choose what you want from the left sidebar. https://www.brainshark.com/wkovid/vu?pi=zGXzPBOtoz34XJz0&cmpid=Brainshark:PsycInfoOvidSP
ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection – ProQuest Social Sciences Collection abstracts and indexes over 10,000 titles in the social sciences while also providing access to over 1,800 scholarly journals. International in scope, content covers education, language and linguistics, sociology, and political science from 1871 to the present. Updating varies.
ProQuest’s YouTube channel has a brief introduction to using the Advanced Search option on their databases. This will get you started in using ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8k6mxTz7M
PubMed - Includes citations to more than 20 million biomedical related journals. Nursing journal subset may be searched by clicking on Filters in the upper right corner and selecting "Nursing journals" under Subsets.
The National Library Medicine, producer of PubMed, makes available a series of tutorials that cover all aspects of searching, displaying and saving your results. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/cover.html