LibGuides: Doctor of Nursing Practice: Articles

Journal Locator

Use the Journal Locator to see if the Library has access to a journal or periodical.

Full-text Access

Many databases provide full-text access to journals. However, you can use the GET ARTICLE icon to search for full-text coverage of the title you need in one of the other databases. If no access is available, you can request and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for the materials.

ILL Request Form

Top Nursing & Health Studies Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 600 of the 3,000 current nursing and allied health journals and other medical publications indexed in CINAHL. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
Health Databases (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search all four ProQuest Health databases at one time. Includes Health & Medical Collection, Health Management Database, Nursing & Allied Health Database, and Public Health Database.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions.

Suggested Databases for Nursing & Health Studies

AccessMedicine (McGraw Hill) This link opens in a new window
An "online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 65 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device."
Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of several evidenced-based health care databases.
Journals@Ovid This link opens in a new window
The database aggregates hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
Authoritative information from National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
Health Management Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Health administration - journal articles, dissertations
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Click on the "Full Text @ MU Library" to check for full text access.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text scientific, technical and medical articles from Elsevier Publishing.
PsycINFO (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions.
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.

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Search Tips

Nursing and Health Studies topics should be searched as “Keyword” to maximize the number of references to a topic.

When a subject heading is known, search the “Subject Heading” index. To find subject headings in the medical field, try the Medical Subject Heading online (MeSH)