Research Guides: BIOL 340: Research Methods: Find Articles

Recommended Resources

Health Source: Nursing Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 26 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.

MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing, and includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.
PubMed Central (PMC) This link opens in a new window
Free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Medical Subject Headings (MESH) Information
MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Authoritative source offering indexed and full-text literature and resources related to education. It provides access to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from various sources, including journal articles, books, and policy papers. Researchers can narrow their search results by education level, such as Early Childhood Education, and by intended audience, such as Counselors or Teachers. Features an education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,800 terms.
ECOTOX This link opens in a new window
Provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life. ECOTOX is a useful tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE is a search engine specifically for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

*Tip: After searching, use the menu on the right to refine your search result by Dewey Decimal Classification and choose Medicine & health [61*]

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
Covers thousands of open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

PubMed Clinical Queries
PubMed Clinical Queries is an additional option for running a search on PubMed. It automatically applies filters and MESH terms to provide results for clinical decision making.
Trip
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Try the PICO option to search by keywords related to Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome.