Other Nursing Databases – Part 1Other Nursing Databases – Part 1

Finding Journal Full Text Articles; ProQuest Nursing Journals; Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Finding Journal Full Text Articles; ProQuest Nursing Journals; Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Finding Full Text Articles Using the IWU Databases

Finding Full Text Articles Using the IWU Databases

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Finding full text articlesFinding full text articles

• Let’s say you were researching continuing education in the hospital. Using CINAHL you found several good articles that were peer-reviewed but not available full text in CINAHL.

• How do you know if/where these articles are available?

• Let’s find out.

• Using the Journal Search engine will save you a lot of time as you do your research!

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You have a citation in CINAHL. Is it available full text in CINAHL? Is it

full text someplace else?

You have a citation in CINAHL. Is it available full text in CINAHL? Is it

full text someplace else?

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Is it full text

someplace else?

Is it full text

someplace else?

You can also locate articles that are not

full text in CINAHL but may be in another IWU database or available in paper in the IWU

Library. Let’s see how! Note the Full Text

Finder link.

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This article is available in a couple of other

IWU databases. The Finder takes you directly

to the article that is actually stored in

ProQuest Nursing Journals.

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• You can also use the journal search tool to locate the journal.

• Sometimes the Finder button “misfires.” You can simply check directly in the Journal Search tool.

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Start at the OCLS homepage, http://www.indwes.edu/oclsStart at the OCLS homepage, http://www.indwes.edu/ocls

• Click on: Journal Titles (under Key Links)• You may need to authenticate (library

access #)• Type in the name of the journal TITLE—not

the article title.

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This tells you where/how it is available.This one is available from Jackson Library’s print collection, as well as SPORTDiscusdatabase. If it was only available from IWU’sprint collection, you can send OCLS the citation and the article can be copied/scanned andsent to you within 24 hours. (http://www.indwes.edu/Forms/request.aspx)

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If you were searching in CINAHL and came across this article from Journal of Nursing Administration, the Finder button would tell you it was available in the library. Again request it from OCLS for a scanned copy of the article.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

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ProQuest Nursing JournalsProQuest Nursing Journals

• Subscription based database (needs IWU authentication library access number).

• Provides full text, cover to cover content for several hundred nursing related journals.

• Allows keyword searching and publication searching.

• Allows for printing, emailing or saving the articles.

• Subscription based database (needs IWU authentication library access number).

• Provides full text, cover to cover content for several hundred nursing related journals.

• Allows keyword searching and publication searching.

• Allows for printing, emailing or saving the articles.

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Start at OCLS home pageStart at OCLS home page• http://www.indwes.edu/ocls• Click on: Nursing (under Article Databases)• Locate: ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health

Source.

• You will need to authenticate with your MyIWU credentials or the library 14-digit library access number.

• http://www.indwes.edu/ocls• Click on: Nursing (under Article Databases)• Locate: ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health

Source.

• You will need to authenticate with your MyIWU credentials or the library 14-digit library access number.

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You can do a keyword search; use multiple rows to use Boolean searching.

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This search yields a lot! We can get a smaller result by limiting to Full Text and/or Peer reviewed. The search results also gives Related Searches to try. [Note: if you try this search your number will likely be different as these databases are updated daily.]

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Perhaps we can bring the result down significantly by limiting to Peer reviewed, Full Textand adding another term, nurses.

We still have a lot of results!

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Links to the full text (if available)are also shown under each citation.

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ProQuest Nursing Journals also allows for publication searching…

ProQuest Nursing Journals also allows for publication searching…

Type in the journal.Click on the title.

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Select the needed year range, then neededyear, needed issue and needed article. Or,You can scan all the articles in the issue!

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Health Source: Nursing/Academic

EBSCOHost databasesEBSCOHost databases

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Health Source: Nursing/AcademicHealth Source: Nursing/Academic

• Subscription based database (needs IWU authentication barcode).

• Provides some full text content for over hundreds of nursing related journals and an additional 300 that provide indexing.

• Allows subject and keyword searching and publication searching.

• Allows for printing, emailing or saving the articles.

• Subscription based database (needs IWU authentication barcode).

• Provides some full text content for over hundreds of nursing related journals and an additional 300 that provide indexing.

• Allows subject and keyword searching and publication searching.

• Allows for printing, emailing or saving the articles.

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Start at OCLS home pageStart at OCLS home page• http://www.indwes.edu/ocls• Click on: Nursing (under Article Databases)• Locate: Health Source: Nursing/Academic

• You will need to authenticate with your MyIWU credentials or the library 14-digit library access number.

• http://www.indwes.edu/ocls• Click on: Nursing (under Article Databases)• Locate: Health Source: Nursing/Academic

• You will need to authenticate with your MyIWU credentials or the library 14-digit library access number.

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You can do a keyword search asthis is the default search.

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Or, you can do a subject search…Or, you can do a subject search…

Click on: Subjects, type one of the topics in the Browsing:text box. Clicking on ContinuingEducation allows you to see relatedtopics…

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… that you might want to include in your search. Check mark as many as youneed. Then go to the top and click on the green Search bar. Repeat all the stepsfor the 2nd topic, hospitals.

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For the 2nd term, clickon Subjects; type: Hospitals; Browse;click on Hospitals to seeRelated terms. Check mark any that apply.

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When on the results screen, click on Search History.

When on the results screen, click on Search History.

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The last search you did is already in the Search box. So, justcheck mark the first search and click on the Search with AND.The new results will be available below the Search History area.

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Your results are a lot less than the first keyword search in this database, but the results are probably more relevant to your topics.

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When full text is available, you can display it and save, email or print itWhen full text is available, you can display it and save, email or print it

Other Nursing Databases – Part 2Other Nursing Databases – Part 2

MEDLINEDigital DissertationsCochrane LibraryERIC

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