LITERATURE SEARCHES Flashcards
An application, or application program, is a software program that runs on computer. Web browsers, e-mail programs, word processors, games, and utilities are all applications. The word “application” is used because each program has a specific application for the user.
computer applications
- is research that provides evidence
used to support nursing practices
nursing research
new opportunities in nursing research
- big data
- automatic capture and analysis
- new strategies and exponential growth in mobile and tablet apps
refers to both the applications delivered as services over the Internet and the hardware and systems software in the data centers that provide those services
cloud computing
cloud computing: nursing as a ___ and caring
data centric
To maintain professional credibility, a Nursing Professional must:
- keep current with literature
- develop a list of sources
- collaborate and network with colleagues
maintaining currency: a resource must be:
- covers the specialty
- includes primary journals and peripheral material
- updated regularly
- covers appropriate period
- covers material from diff countries
- some form of peer review
- One of the most useful resources for accessing information about
current practice is the journal literature - Allows the nurse to retrieve a list of citations containing bibliographic
details of the material indexed, subject headings, and author abstracts
bibliographic retrieval systems
- Have a controlled vocabulary, also known as a thesaurus or subject
heading list, to make electronic subject searching much easier - Previously available as print indexes, these systems are now available
electronically through online services, or via the World Wide Web.
bibliographic retrieval systems
provides comprehensive coverage of the literature in nursing and allied health from 1937 to the
present.
CINAHL (Cumulated Index in Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
the National Institutes of
Health’s Web site for patients and their families providing information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. It provides information about the latest treatments, drugs or supplements, meanings of words, and access to medical videos or illustrations.
medline plus
a partnership with Elsevier, is a
nursing and allied health database of over 5 million records across 3500 journals. It uses the ENTRÉE thesaurus, expanded with
nursing and allied health terms
ovid emcare
provides access to nursing and
allied health literature, videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic
reviews.
a full-text database supporting nurses and midwives in
the United Kingdom
proquest nursing and allied health database
This collection is a comprehensive medical resource providing full-text journal content, eBooks, and evidence-based information,
including dissertations and systematic reviews. It includes MEDLINE®, which contains journal citations and abstracts for
biomedical literature from around the world.
proquest health and medical collection
contains over 3800 journals &
serials, and 37,000 books. The digital archives go back as far as 1823. There are over 600
peer-reviewed open-access journals.
science direct
is sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education and contains
more than 1,600,000 citations covering education-related literature (Educational
Resources Information Center, 2018). It covers virtually all types of print materials, published and unpublished, from 1966 to the
present day.
ERIC (educational resources information center)
produced by the American Psychological Association, provides access to psychologically relevant literature from more than 2500 journals, dissertations,
reports, scholarly documents, books, and book chapters with more than 3 million references from the 1880s to the present.
PsycINFO
can be accessed via Web of Science Core Collection for a fee. Web of Science, part of Clarivate Analytics, offers citations from over 20,000
journals carefully selected and evaluated and indexed to deliver influential scientific information Clarivate Analytics
social sciences citation index (SSCI)
uses a sociological thesaurus to
index over 2.5 million records from over 800 full-text sociology journals, with abstracts from over 1500 additional journals. It also
provides some conference papers in full text. It covers all subdisciplines of sociology and
social work including social psychology, gender or racial issues, criminal justice, and religion
SocINDEX
offers a version of the
Google search engine with which most nurses are familiar. In fact, approximately 67% of the
more than 170 billion Internet searches each month are conducted using this
google scholar
the next-generation approach to research, discovery solutions
have become a critical component within most academic library systems, playing a vital role in the effort to showcase the value of a
library’s collection, providing a unified index and changing the way resources are searched.
proquest’s ex libris primo discovery service
provides a fast, streamlined search through a single search box, but within the context of a greater experience that pulls together
intuitive features and functionality, indexing, and instant access to full text leveraged from the EBSCOhost research platform and databases, as well as from key information
providers.
EBSCO discovery service
a free resource supporting the
search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The
database contains more than 32 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
pubmed
Provides access to thousands of
Elsevier journals and textbooks on
medicine, surgery and many other
areas. Browse and/or search for books, journals, guidelines etc.
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