NURS 481
Resources covered in the Library session
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PubMed / MyNCBI
CINAHL / Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health
Scopus / Medline and Embase
Cochrane / Systematic Reviews
Google Scholar / Scholarly literature from all disciplines
Refworks / Citation management and formatting
Link to Tutorials for each resource below!
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PubMed for NursesThis tutorial was created specifically to help nurses efficiently find literature using PubMed.Its concise, targeted content consists of five videos with exercises to test your knowledge. The tutorial was designed to be completed in less than 30 minutes.
Primary or Secondary Resource?
What does it mean to refer to a resource by the terms PRIMARY and SECONDARY?
~ PRIMARY resource: the author(s) collected or created the data / research presented
Examples: original research published in a peer reviewed journal, dissertation
Where? PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Scholar, Government data (e.g. CDC web site and publications e.g. MMWR)
~ SECONDARY resource: the author(s) summarized, analyzed or synthesized the research of others
Examples: literature review, systematic review, organization web sites (see link below), clinical point of care tools
Where? Databases listed above, Google, Wikipedia, Up to Date, Dynamed
~ How do I know an article is from a peer reviewed journal?
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
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