Article Databases
Article databases make searchable the content published in academic journals, which includes primary research articles and secondary (review) articles. Each database differs in scope and subject coverage. Use the recommended databases listed below to search for scholarly literature on your topic.
Core Nursing Database
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowA rich collection of nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL and provides additional nursing and allied health research material including health care books, select conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheet and quick lesson disease overviews. The database provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine.
Health Science & Healthcare Databases
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed is a free online resource that comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. By using this custom Daemen URL, article citations will include a link to search the Daemen catalog for full text, in addition to links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences.
- Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new windowDatabase of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books, and more.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- Healthcare Administration Database This link opens in a new windowA collection of resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations. Subjects include: Health administration, Health professions, Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Statistics, Business, Management, Personnel, Ethics, Economics, and Public health.
General Databases
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowIn additional to locating articles, you can use Google Scholar to determine the role a book or article plays in the scholarly conversation by checking how many times it has been cited.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.