Nursing: Databases and More

This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals, containing evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and top journals about nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare.

Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognised as the highest standard in evidence-based health care. They may either investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation, or alternatively may assess the accuracy of a diagnostic test for a given condition in a specific patient group and setting. A unique feature of Cochrane Reviews is that they are living documents in that they are updated with new evidence that emerges

Health Reference Center Academic provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.

This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations

This full-text database offers a trusted source of nursing and allied health literature. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition covers an array of relevant topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and many more.

Essential resource providing access to authoritative content and multiple pathways to key information. Updated daily, this resource will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

MEDLINE Complete is the largest companion to the MEDLINE index and provides full text for over 2,500 medical journals.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Provides full text access to journals primarily in the areas of science, technology, social science, and medicine. Full text is available for over 700 titles from 1997 to date. Abstracts from 1995 to date.

Oxford Medicine Online is a digital platform hosting Oxford University Press' prestigious medical titles.

This database offers international coverage dating back to 1988 of an enormous range of public health subjects, including pandemics, disaster preparedness, and obesity.

Large collection of journal articles, abstracts, and magazine articles, covering all subjects.

Google Scholar is a great way to find academic articles, but many of the links lead to paywalls. To get around that, you tell Scholar to remember your York Library affiliation so you will always see “Find fulltext at York” options when available. From scholar.google.com, go to Settings and click on Library Links. Check all boxes for York College CUNY and click Save. If you’re logged into your Google account, it will remember that setting from now on. You can find more info here: https://libguides.york.cuny.edu/scholar

This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences.

Science In Context is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.