Nurse Midwifery Research Tools

Background or Getting Started

• Library Catalog
• Marriott Library Catalog
• NLM Gateway
• NLM LocatorPlus
• netLibrary Ebooks. Browsing is freely available; to read or download a book you need to set up a personal account within netLibrary. University of Utah only.
• STAT!Ref Medical Reference Library Fulltext drug and medical textbooks. University of Utah only.

Top Electronic Resources for Nursing Midwifery in General:

• CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
• Cochrane Library Evidence-based Health Care data, includes the Database of Systematic Reviews.
• MD Consult Provides access to over 30 medical texts, articles from more than 40 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 2,500 patient education handouts, CME, and daily medical updates customized to your specialty. Requires a one-time registration for your user name & password.
• Nursing-Related Databases from Ebscohost
• PubMed MEDLINE (with linkout to Eccles Library electronic full text journals)
• MICROMEDEX Drug and Toxicology Information. University of Utah Health Sciences Center only.
• Ethnic NewsWatch A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
• GenderWatch A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains archival material dating back to the mid 1970's.
• PsycINFO via Ebscohost. Citations and summaries from the world's serial and book literature in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. University of Utah only.
• Sociological Abstracts

Journal Articles, use:

• CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Ebscohost.
• Nursing-Related Databases from Ebscohost
• PubMed MEDLINE
• MD Consult

Selected Online Journals:

• Clinical Nursing Research
• Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
• Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Journal of Clinical Nursing
• Medscape Women's Health Journal Requires free registration.
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

To find statistics:

• CDC's Data & Statistics
• Faststats from NCHS
• NCHS, National Center for Health Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Statistical Universe A Lexis/Nexis database of statistical information from leading federal, state, private & international governmental documents. Links to selected full-text publications.
• Utah Department of Health
• WorldAlmanac

Selected websites:

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
• American College of Nurse-Midwives
• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses
• CDC, Centers for Disease Control & Preventions
• Citizens for Midwifery
• Consumer Health sites:
  • Clinical Reference Systems
    Reports describing symptoms, treatments, risks and after-effects of a vast array of medical topics and conditions. Ebscohost.
  • Consumer Health Links from Eccles Health Sciences Library.
  • Mayo Clinic Health Info
  • MEDLINEPlus Both health professionals and consumers can find accurate, current, medical information. From the National Library of Medicine.
  • NOAH New York Online Access to Health
• Current News:
  • CDC
  • NIH, National Insitutes of Health
    • Newspapers:
    • Academic Universe
    • Newspaper Source
    • Utah Newspapers:
      • Deseret News
      • Salt Lake Tribune
• FDA, U.S. Food & Drug Adminstration
• Hardin Meta-Directory for Womens Health & Gynecology
• Hardin Meta-Directory for Nursing and Nursing Research
• Healthy People 2010
• International Childbirth Education Association
• Lamaze International
• Listservs for Nurses
• Maternity Care Association
• Medscape - Nurses Requires free registration.
• Medscape - Women's HealthRequires free registration.
• Midwifery Today
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• National Institute of Nursing Research
• National Women's Health Information Center
• Nursing Subject Links from Eccles Health Sciences Library
• Rumors, Hoaxes or Bogus Information on the Web
  • CDC's Current Health-Related Hoaxes & Rumors
  • Health & Medical Rumors & Hoaxes from Netlore: Rumors, Hoaxes & Urban Legends
• Salt Lake Valley Health Department
• Sigma Theta Tau, Virginia Henderson Library
• University of Utah College of Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery
• United Nations Childrens Fund: UNICEF
• Utah.gov
• Utah Department of Health
  • Maternal, Infant & Child Health
• Utah Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Utah - Local Health Departments
• Utah Nurses Association
• World Health Organization

Helpful Tutorials:

• Nurse Midwifery Curriculum Modules
• Evalutating Internet Resources
• Internet Navigator An online Internet course that can be used as a tutorial, or taken for college credit.
• PubMed MEDLINE Tutorial
• Traveling the Internet Online Tutorial covering the basics of Netscape, Internet Explorer and Web surfing.