Nursing Research Guide

This page provides research resources and tips

To locate databases that will cover nursing, medical, or health related topics, try to following steps:

1. Go to Databases A-Z List

2. From the "Subjects" dropdown menu at the top of the page, select "Nursing" or "Health & Medicine". It will look like this:

3. Select the database of choice (if off-campus, login with MYSVC username and password to search)

Reminder: SVC databases provide the option to locate APA citations (to be copied and corrected!) as well as options to save articles in folders to then email articles to yourself 

TRUNCATION *

1. Truncation allows you to use a "wild card" option for the ending of your terms.
2. By adding an asterisk  * after the root word means you are asking the database to search for any possible ending after the asterisk.
3. Using truncation will help locate more results, or "broaden", the choice of articles on your topic.

For example:

• architect* = searches for architecture, architect
• nurs* = searches for nurse, nurses, nursing
• addict* = searches for addict, addiction, addictive

QUOTATIONS MAKE A PHRASE

• Use "quotation marks" around phrases to help the database search more accurately.
• By using quotation marks you are asking to only search those words together and not separately.

For example:  "factory farms", "industrial waste", "young adults", "service animals", "social media"

• Identify Sources Guide 

Helps identify Primary/Secondary sources, Scholarly/Popular sources, and Peer-review sources

• Library Tutorials

Provides tutorials to searching individual databases and other options