LibGuides: DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice): Find Articles

Searching Lavery for Articles

There are many databases available through Lavery Library that you can use to start your research. In the box below, are listed some popular nursing and health databases. Keep in mind, depending on your topic, you may need to refer to databases outside of the nursing and health fields. When this happens you can find the full list of databases using the link below.

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Databases A-Z
Link to full list of available Lavery Library databases.
Interlibrary Loan
Help with accessing articles not available through Lavery Library.

Nursing and Health Databases

Scholarly Nursing & Health Databases

The database list below is not exhaustive, but can serve as a starting point for your literature search.

APA PsycNET
Psychology and related disciplines; full-text articles, books, reviews and more

PsycNET, published by the American Psychological Association, is a comprehensive database that includes PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO. It includes full-text articles, book and film reviews, sections from APA and classic psychology books, and summaries of the world's literature in psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
CINAHL
Articles: nursing and health topics

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is designed specifically for nurses and allied health professionals. It indexes nearly all English language nursing journals. CINAHL also includes primary journals from 17 allied health disciplines, pertinent articles from related disciplines, and selected nursing books and dissertations. It covers 1982 to the present and is updated monthly.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly journals, medical topics; includes patient education sheets from AHFS Consumer Medication Information
Journals@Ovid Full Text
Full-text of clinical nursing and medical journals

Journals@Ovid offers access to the table of contents and references for 500 biomedical titles, with access to items such as research articles, book and other media reviews, editorials, abstracts of symposia and calendars. The LWW Collection (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins), part of the Journals@Ovid database, provides access to the full-text of 140 clinical nursing and medical journals in the Journals@Ovid collection. Some of these journals are indexed in CINAHL with links to the Ovid full-text. Journals@Ovid is updated daily, and most journals cover from 1996 to the present.
ProQuest Health Management
Articles on health administration topics

Find complete, full-text information from leading publications covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
Full-text articles and other resources; nursing and allied health topics

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides complete, full-text information from leading nursing allied health, and related publications. Over 620 titles cover more than 70 topics, spanning from 1986 to the present.
PubMed @ Fisher
Articles in medicine and life sciences; some full-text

PubMed® comprises more than 30 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.
ScienceDirect
Peer-reviewed journal articles; science, social science, and humanities topics

The ScienceDirect College Edition provides libraries with access to over 1200 peer-reviewed full-text journals in pharmacology, toxicology, pharmaceutics, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, health sciences, immunology, neuroscience, psychology, social sciences, decision sciences, business, management, and accounting, economics, econometrics, and finance, environmental science and agriculture. Journal coverage dates back to 2002.
Web of Science (Expires 6/30/2021)
Citation index to articles in sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities

Provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
These databases bring together indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals. Researchers can search citation data, taking a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, more recent papers that cite it. Web of Science offers expanded search options, including the ability to locate all cited authors (not just first authors), track times cited information, and hotlink to first and subsequent generation articles. It includes approximately 15,250 new cited references and 2,250 new articles per week.
For a list of journals indexed in Web of Science see http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/