Finding Information

Sources in Nursing

Table of Contents

Getting Started

   Types of Databases

Journal Articles

  Full-Text Databases

  Citation Databases

     Thesaurus

     Strategy #1

     Strategy #2

     Strategy #3

Review

Confusion About

Using Internet Sources

Sometimes your instructor will tell you NOT to use Internet sources for a particular assignment.

Journal articles that you retrieve from the Library's databases over the Internet are usually OK to use, anyway.  These are articles that you find by searching one of our journal databases, such as CINAHL or Health Reference Center Academic.  These databases simply deliver online the same articles that appear in the print versions of journals.  The Library pays to receive these databases, just as they might pay to receive the paper copies of the same articles.

Be sure to check with your instructor if you're not sure!