Nursing literature: an Oviatt Library Research guide
Subject Headings with links to retrieve books, videos,
journals, and theses in the CSUN Online Catalog
CSUN library uses Library of Congress Subject Headings when . Following
are a select list of LC subject headings appropriate for research on topics
for nursing. Each LC subject heading is
a link into our CSUN
catalog. Remember to Sort Results
by date to get the most recent books first. If you want to retrieve ALL
books that mention the keyword(s) anywhere in the catalog record change
the search from a subject search to a keyword anywhere.
To search for materials from
other libraries, search the WorldCat
database.
Call Number Ranges (for
browsing the Book Stacks):
| RT Floor 3 |
Nursing |
| RC 1200 Floor 3 |
Medicine |
DATABASES
The following are primarily
links which will guide you to finding books in our library, electronic
books, identify citations for articles in journals as well as offer
many full text articles. From the library's homepage, select
Article and Research Data
and look for the Subject category Health Sciences. Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/databases/HealthSciences
To assist you in finding the journal articles, the CSUN list of Electronic Periodicals and bibliographic databases offer 
links. Periodical databases now provide full text access possibilities where the database is limited to citation or abstract.
If CSUN does not own the journal title you need, you may request articles using the Interlibrary Loan service at http://illiad.csun.edu/.
- Multisearch Health Sciences Multisearch provides a single point where you can search up to ten (10) databases at once.
search over 25,000 electronic journals, all through one common search interface. Multisearch also provides a way to save records.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text is an essential research tool for nursing and allied health. In addition to indexing over 3000 nursing and allied health sources, CINAHLPlus also offers some full text, lists the references as part of the indexing, offers a cited reference search, as well as Evidence based care sheets. Coverage starts from 1937- . You will need to connect directly into CINAHLPlus in order to get to all its features. Multisearch can give you a hint of the numbers of records, but CINAHLPlus with Fulltext itself should also be searched.
- Medline (Multiple sources), 1950 -
Medline is the leading research-oriented medical and health indexing and abstracting service from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is available from several vendors each with a different suite of databases. The freely available, open access PubMed is good for lifelong learning.
- Medline (PubMed) is freely available on the internet.
offers abstracts and indexing of over 5000 journals, as well as full text books, and links into several other NIH databases on consumer health, toxicology, genetics . Use CSUN Library's URL at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib which offers
- Medline (FirstSearch) offers simultaneous search for Medline, ERIC, ArticleFirst or WorldCat.
- Medline (Thomson ISI ) offers cross search with Biological Abstracts and Zoo Record. ISI offers tutorials, Note: that CSUN does NOT subscribe to the complete ISI Web of Knowledge. Our subscription does NOT include cited references :
- MEDLINEplus (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
MEDLINEplus provides information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), government, non-profit and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. The database also provides consumer health information, drug information, dictionary, and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
Note: Unrestricted access
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- EbscoHost -several databases, including CINAHLPlus with Fulltext(Nursing and Allied Health) and Academic Search Elite
- Cochrane
Library evidence based databases including Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews),
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE),
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL),
The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews), and the
The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
- Health Reference Center Academic(Gale InfoTRAC) and InfoTrac OneFile
JOURNALS
The following are journals CSUN
owns in paper and electronically. The links to the journal titles
go to the journal title's catalog record in our
CSUN
Periodicals and Serials Catalog. The catalog record gives you the call
number for the journal in print and also provides a link to the online
journal when journal is available online. The library catalog has cataloging
records for over 6,500 electronic journals available from certain electronic
journals subscriptions such as Academic Search Elite, Science Direct, or
publisher's websites.
The library subscribes to over 25 Full text databases offering access to
over 25,000 electronic journals. To identify which database may offer full
text and if you know the title of a periodical or newspaper, consult our
new
CSUN list of Electronic
Journals, Newspapers and search
By Subject for
nursing
WEBSITES
This page was created by and is maintained by
Marcia Henry.
Any questions or comments can be sent to mailto:mhenry@csun.edu.
