Highlighted Databases: Nursing Education

Highlighted Databases: Nursing Education

Gottesman Libraries

Did you know that 2020 is Year of the Nurse and Midwife, as designated by the World Health Organization? Inspired by the recent Teachers College news article and rich resources held in the Library's collection, we highlight databases that strengthen teaching, learning, and research in the field of Nursing Education.


APA PscyNET is a single search interface for PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycCRITIQUES, and PsycEXTRA.


Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. See also Academic Search Complete, a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.


Biological Abstracts is an index with abstracts to periodicals in biology and the life sciences. Provides access to biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Coverage is international, and includes biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, microbiology, and pharmacology.


BioMed Central provides access to 207 open access biological and biomedical research journals, as well as current reports and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.


CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the online version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL from 1981-present.


Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; the Cochrane Methodology Register; the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; the Health Technology Assessment Database; and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.There is a a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.


ERIC, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides extensive access to educational-related periodical literature, ERIC (which stands for Educational Resources Information Center) provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs. In addition to this version, made available via the CSA Illumina platform, also accessible via the U.S. government ERIC site, through Ebsco ERIC, and via ProQuest ERIC on the Columbia University Libraries website.


Education Full Text provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning in January 1996.


Education Index Retro provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks; coverage from 1929 through mid-1983.


Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.


General Science Full Text is the H. W. Wilson science database comprised of abstracts, bibliographic indexing, and full text material from scholarly sources and specialized magazines. Indexing begins in 1984; full-text coverage in 1995.


MEDLINE – MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.


Sports Medicine and Education Index covers peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, and articles from the popular press on physical education and related fields, from 1970 to the present.


Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides access to a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. The database also contains more than 200 educational reports.


ProQuest provides broad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other types of publications; for international coverage and access to full texts of dissertations only, search Digital Dissertations, a subset of ProQuest.


PsycINFO covers the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.


Be sure to check out the research guides on rhizr, including Library Resources and Services: ORLN 5103, Informatics i Nursing, and Nursing Education History for Nurse Executives, ORLN 4005.




Poster Image: Florence Nightingale, an oil portrait (1943) by Frederick Rocher, Historical Portraiture Collection. Courtesy of the Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University.


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