Nursing Research Tools
Beginning Your Research:
Library Catalog
Find what's available in print or electronically. Includes holdings of the
Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium, UHSLC
.
Marriott Library Catalog
Find what is available at Marriott Library, and the
Quinney Law Library
, University of Utah.
netLibrary
Provides access to a collection of e-books that users can browse or read online or download to read
offline. Browsing is freely available; to read or download a book you need to set up a personal account
within netLibrary.
STAT!Ref Medical Reference Library
Fulltext drug and medical textbooks.
LocatorPlus®
The National Library of Medicine's Catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to
other medical research tools.
WorldCat
Over 30 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries in the U.S.A., Canada
and Britain. Updated daily.
For journal articles use:
CINAHL
A resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, which provides
indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications.
CINAHL offers complete coverage of English-language publications from the National League for Nursing
and the American Nurses' Association, and access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected
conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
Full text material includes 58 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug
records, research instruments, clinical trials. EBSCOhost. This resource has been made available
through a generous gift of the Spencer S. Eccles family.
PubMed
Also known as
PubMed MEDLINE
, is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over
12 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
LWW Collection on Journals @ OVID
140 clinical journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Provided by the Nursing Initiative of the Utah
Academic Library Consortium.
Cochrane Library
a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare
decision-making. Browse
Systematic Reviews, A-Z.
PsycINFO via Ebscohost.
contains citations and summaries from the world's serial and book literature in psychology and psychological
aspects of related disciplines. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than
1,300 periodicals written in over 30 languages.
LexisNexis Academic
provides access to a wide range of current news, business, legal, and reference information. Search is of
title, byline and lead paragraph; the full text is retrieved.
Selected Online Journals
- EBM Online: Evidence-based Nursing
- International Journal of Nursing Practice
- Journal of Nursing Management
- Nursing and Health Sciences
- Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
To find statistics:
- LEXIS/NEXIS Statistical Universe
- Index to International Statistics: provides link to database
- U.S. Census: provides link to database
- CDC-Wonder
- National Center for Health Statistics
Some good websites to start with:
- American Nurses Association
- Best Practice Network
- Evidence-based Nursing and Health Care Resources
- HealthWeb-Nursing
- Joanna Briggs Institute For Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery
- NIH-Clinical Center Nursing Department: (policies)
- Nursing Net
- University of York - Centre for Evidence Based Nursing
Helpful tutorials:







