State of Nursing Science

Welcome to this wiki!

I hope you find this array of links to be helpful in your research.

• PubMed Clinical Queries

• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews

• In CINAHL, Clinical Queries limiter

• In Nursing Reference Center, Evidence Based Care Sheets within Diseases & Conditions

• Cochrane Review Groups (Choose the Browse Reviews link in your areas of interest)

• UpToDate via HUBNET [available on-site only - no remote access]

• Essential Nursing References- Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing

• Full List Health Sciences Library Biomedical Database Listing orShort List
  

• Multi-Search- search many nursing-related databases at once

• Dissertations & Theses and Dissertations & Theses at UB

• EBN users' guide to the nursing literature: an introduction and many other good articles you should know about

• Research in Nursing & Health: Virtual Compendium - Qualitative and Quantitative Articles

• Medical, Nursing, and Psychological Tests and Research Instruments

• Library Instruction Offerings

• National Institute of Nursing Research - The FAQ gives you a flavor for what the NINR is all about. NINR is revising an online research training course (target date January 2010) and podcasts. The Institute’s research focus encompasses health promotion and disease prevention, quality of life, health disparities, and end-of-life.

• Mapping the Literature of Nursing: 1996 - 2000
  Now getting dated, but the following tables are still useful:
  1. Table 5 Coverage of most frequently cited journals (115 titles)
     
  2. Table 6 Average indexing coverage for key databases
     

• EBM Librarian links - Excellent information

• CEBM: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Nice resource with a wealth of material in one location

• Penn State's Center for Primary Care - Step 3 addresses appraisal specifically

• Catmaker - Download guides you through a critical appraisal, then calculates appropriate EBM values

• Grey Literature Report (Collection of new grey literature publications (non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications) in public health

• NIH RePORTER - Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects - replaces CRISP
• The Invisible Web or "Deep Web" - information and tips
• Go Beyond Google: 50 Excellent Health Search Engines

• Systematic Reviews: What are They and Why are They Useful?

• Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

• Systematic Reviews - Getting Started with Your Patrons

• Table 4: The five clinical journals that published the most systematic reviews by audience in 2000 - Nursing (getting dated!)
  

• Table 2: The 20 clinical journals that published the most systematic reviews in 2000 (Again, getting dated!)
  

from:Systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study of location and citation counts by Victor M Montori, Nancy L Wilczynski, Douglas Morgan and R Brian Haynes for the Hedges Team, BMC Medicine 2003, 1:2

• Nursing @ HSL (Nursing Blog)

• Evidence Informed Nursing Practice

• Frequently Asked Questions about APA Style (from APA Style.org)
  

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. (Health Sciences Library Reserve WZ 345 P976 2011)
  

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences

• Download EndNote

• EndNote and Vista

• EndNote classes - take a small group, hands-on class for 75 minutes and you will be ready to fly with EndNote!

Sharon Murphy, MLS, AHIP, R.N.
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In my absence, my colleages are happy to help you! Appointments are most helpful.

Michelle Zafron
Michelle's email

Linda Hasman
Linda's email

Or call the Reference Desk at 829-3900 x 102 or email ASKHSL