Nursing Databases
| Database | Description |
| CINAHL with Full Text |
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) database covers nursing and allied health topics including audiology, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, speech-language therapy and consumer health. |
| Emcare | A subset of Elsevier's Embase database, containing Nursing journals from 1995 onwards. Has a stronger UK/European focus thant CINAHL. |
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MIMS Online provides information on over 4,500 prescription and non-prescription drugs. It is a compilation of information supplied by pharmaceutical manufacturers, government bodies and various non-government organisations. |
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| MEDLINE/PubMed | It is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database for medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences. Please see the box 'Medline or Pubmed' on the right for more information on the differences between these databases. |
| ProQuest | Multidisciplinary collection of journals, magazines and theses, including many business, management and economics resources |
| Academic OneFile | A multidisciplinary collection of journals (many of them peer-reviewed) and reference sources. |
| Health Collection (Informit) | Full text and indexing database of over 100 Australian and New Zealand health sciences resources. |
| Scopus (Citations) | Indexes resources in health and life sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, social sciences, psychology, and economics, business and management. Includes MEDLINE and Embase data. |
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Web of Science (Citations) |
Web of Science provides access to all three citation databases - Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index - from 1987 onwards. |
Selected Nursing Journals
This list of Nursing journals is indicative only - it is not comprehensive:
You can find other journals relevant to nursing by doing a keyword search in the Library Catalogue for:
nursing periodicals
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Medline or Pubmed?
PubMed is the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Medline is its largest component but it includes other resources.
The Library also has subscriptions to Medline on both the Web of Science and Ovid platforms. These databases provide more sophisticated search functionality and shows you the FindIt@Murdoch links in your results.
Other resources
Tables of Contents from Journals
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Journal abbreviations
There are a number of online resources that can be useful in providing the full title of journal abbreviations.