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Subject Guide: Nursing & Health Sciences

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RESEARCH GUIDE
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

"Evidence Based Practice is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values to facilitate clinical decision making."

Sackett, D.L., Straus, S.E., Richardson, W.S. Rosenberg, W.M.C., and Haynes, R.B. (2000). Evidence-based medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. London: Churchill Livingstone.

To the right you will find research guides and electronic resources that will aid you in developing the skills required to develop a topic, locate different types of information, including the 'best research evidence', and evaluate information. These skills are important to your success in academia and practice.

If you would like some help, please do not hesitate to contact me via e-mail. I also welcome drop-in visits or please contact me to make an appointment.

Ellen Olsen-Lynch, BSc, MLIS
Bata Library Rm 203
748-1011 x. 7488

    Getting Started
Developing a Topic
Forming a Clinical Question
    Finding Information
Books
Articles
Statistics
  Evaluating Websites
  Evaluting Articles
 

Library Skills Program

**New - H1N1 database (e-brary)**

CINAHL (EBSCO)

Medline (Ovid)

Other Important Indexes



Electronic Books & Reference

 

RNAO Best Practice Guidelines

Canadian Nurses Association

Useful Websites



RefWorks

 



INDEXES

HEALTH RELATED ONLINE INDEXES
Access Type
Info
Index Name
Restricted Access through Trent Index to article citations only   Arctic Health Publications (National Library of Medicine/University of Alaska Anchorage)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to articles - some full text and some citation only
Database Description
Restricted Access through Trent Database Description Canadian Health Research Collection
Index to article citations only Database Description CINAHL (EBSCO)
Restricted Access through Trent Index to article citations only   Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database (CIHR)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to articles - some full text and some citation only
Database Description
Cochrane Databases of Systematic Reviews (EBM Reviews - Ovid Nursing Resources)
Public Access
Index to article citations only
 
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) (National Library of Medicine)
Restricted Access through Trent Database Description e-CPS (Canadian Pharmacists Association)
Restricted Access through Trent Index to article citations only   Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute (Proquest)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Restricted Access through Trent Index to article citations only   HealthStar (through Ovid)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Medline (through Scholars Portal Search) 
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Medline (through Ovid)
Restricted Access through Trent Index to article citations only   Native Health Database (University of New Mexico - Health Sciences Library & Informatics Centre)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to articles - some full text and some citation only
Database Description
ProQuest Nursing Journals
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
PsycINFO - Scholars Portal Search (alternate site)
Public Access
Index to article citations only
PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to articles - most are full-text
Database Description
Sage Journals Online (includes 45 full-text health/nursing journals)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Sociological Abstracts - Scholars Portal Search
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Web of Knowledge
Public Access Index to article citations only   WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (LNK)
   
Other Useful Online Indexes
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to articles - some full text and some citation only
Database Description
Public Access
Index to article citations only
 
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to articles - some full text and some citation only
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Restricted Access through Trent
Primary documents other than journal articles
Database Description
CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) and in Scholars Portal Search
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center - from Scholars Portal Search)
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Family Studies Abstracts - Scholars Portal Search
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Restricted Access through Trent
Index to article citations only
Database Description
Violence and Abuse Abstracts - Scholars Portal Search


HEALTH RELATED ELECTRONIC BOOKS & REFERENCE

TOPCAT - use Trent's library catalogue to search e-book collections. Click here to find out how. Individual collections are listed below.

Books@Ovid -provides access to full-text online books including: Diseases: A Nursing Process Approach to Excellent Care, Handbook of Medical/Surgical Nursing, Handbook of Pathophysiology, Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 2010 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide, Nurses' Guide to Clinical Procedures, Nursing Care Plans and Documentation. (These books are also available through TOPCAT)

Canadian Health Research Collection - This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian research institutes, government agencies and university centres working in the area of health and medical research. The organizations included in this collection are very active publishers of primary research in the field. The publications included are both general policy documents as well as those of a specialized technical nature. (These books are also available through TOPCAT)
e-CPS - The Canadian Pharmacists Association's online Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties . The eCPS contains thousands of Health Canada–approved drug monographs, links to Health Canada advisories, printable information for patients, searchable product images and more.
Evidence Based Medicine Glossary - Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
Glossary of Terms as Commonly Used in Health Care - University of Illinois at Chicago
Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Martindale's The "Virtual" Nursing Center - a gateway to a wide variety of nursing reference sources. The information is comprehensive and comes in various forms including multimedia texts, databases, and tutorials.
Medical Dictionary - Medline Plus, US National Library of Medicine
Medical Encyclopedia - Medline Plus, US National Library of Medicine
Mental Measurements Yearbook - produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.
The Merck Index - describes significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. Useful for Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, and related fields.
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions (2009) - (Look under Dictionaries then Medicine)
NetLibrary - over 80 nursing titles and over 150 health or medical care titles in addition to 2000 plus other books purchased by Trent and available only electronically. (These books are also available through TOPCAT. )

 

 

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