Guides: Nursing: Find Articles

Nursing, Allied Health, and Science Articles

CINAHL - Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Indexes the professional literature of nursing and allied health disciplines. Some full text access. Also includes abstracts for relevant materials from allied health disciplines, including health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. Provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Access limited 4 simultaneous users.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly articles in biomedicine, health, dentistry, nursing, and other life sciences. Includes MEDLINE plus additional citations, some full-text. Coverage: 1966 – present.
Health Source: Nursing and Academic (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides scholarly articles covering many medical disciplines, with particular focus on nursing and allied health. Also included is the AHFS Consumer Medication Information resource. Full text for some articles.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database is a rich collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Full text for some articles.

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Reviews of research performed in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. See the "More..." link below for subjects available in Full Text. In addition, many other titles include full text from 1996 – 2008, with citations provided from 1945 – present.
Subjects with Full Text:
Anthropology
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Biomedical Engineering (Open Access)
Cancer Biology (Open Access)
Clinical Psychology
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Ecology Evolution and Systematics
Entomology
Environment and Resources (Open Access)
Genomics and Human Genetics (Open Access)
Medicine
Nuclear and Particle Science (Open Access)
Nutrition
Pathology : Mechanisms of Disease
Physiology
Political Science
Psychology
Public Health (Open Access)
Sociology
Virology (Open Access)
Science Online This link opens in a new window
Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.
Science Direct College Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides citations, abstracts and full text (1995-present) for over 1100 journals in the Health & Life Sciences Collection. Provides citations and abstracts for all other Elsevier Science Direct journals.
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly journal articles in biology and all other life sciences.

General Databases

Google Scholar
Online search engine that indexes articles, theses, books, abstracts, conference proceedings and court opinions; from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Although this is a large index, once you have located a citation, you may have to access the complete article using library databases.

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
An excellent starting point for research across a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Replaced Academic OneFile in 2022.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.

Newpapers & Current News

New York Times (NYTimes.com) This link opens in a new window
Full access to the New York Times online (1851-present). Includes international edition and Spanish and Chinese language editions. For full access and no monthly article limits, create an account using your Luther email address or register your account here: http://proxy.luther.edu/login?url=https://ezmyaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/redir.
New York Times, Historical plus Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the New York Times provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851. It is searchable by keyword, author, article title, and first paragraph (abstract). You can browse issues by clicking Publications at the top of the screen. It includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily Times to the New York Times in 1857.
US Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 950 US news publications, including The Des Moines Register, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & Washington Post. 1980-present.