B232: Introduction to the Discipline of Nursing: Theory, Practice, Research
Library Resources for Nursing
Brian Winterman
Life Sciences Library
Jordan Hall A304
Textbooks, Manuals, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries
- Books@Ovid - key medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts from a variety of publishers
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - contains over 3,000 articles in the life sciences broadly defined
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary - approximately 14,000 searchable entries defining the vocabulary of the health sciences
- IUCAT - contains records for more than 4.3 million items held by the Indiana University Libraries, statewide
Consumer Health Resources
- MedlinePlus - brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations to provide consumer health information
- Health Source: Consumer Edition - covers information on health-related issues
Journal Literature Indexes
- CINAHL – index of citations for nursing and allied health
- EBM Reviews: Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, and DARE - multifile database that allows you to search simultaneously the three Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases
- PubMed - provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines
- Web of Knowledge - interface providing access to the Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Alt-HealthWatch - focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
- PsycINFO - provides access to the international journal literature of psychology and related fields
