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Nursing

This page provides access to recommended resources for nursing, medical, and health research.

Finding Articles [help]

CINAHL- Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature
Cochrane Library - Collection of databases for clinicial decision-making in healthcare
Health and Wellness Resource Center - Medical, health, and wellness information
Health Reference Center Academic - For health research
MEDLINE - For research in all aspects of medicine, dentistry, and nursing (FirstSearch interface, 1965 to date)
MEDLINE - For research in all aspects of medicine, dentistry, and nursing (CSA Interface, 1993 to date)
PubMed - For research in all aspects of medicine, dentistry, and nursing
Web of Science - Citation index for all disciplines (1977-present)

Finding Books

HopeCAT - Materials in the collections of Hope College Libraries and Western Theological Seminary
MeLCat - Materials in participating Michigan libraries
WorldCat - Materials in U.S. and international libraries

Online Reference Sources

Health and Wellness Resource Center - Full-text books on health and wellness
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (2005)
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer (2001)
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (2001)
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2002)
Micromedex Healthcare Series - Information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine
Oxford Reference Online - Medicine

including: A-Z of Medicinal Drugs (2003), Dictionary of Nursing (2003), and others