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Nursing – Best Bets

  • AccessAPN (Advanced Practice Nursing) Included in Library Search
    Presents a wide range of content, including textbooks, visual abstracts, cases, animations, and review questions, that aligns with the curricula of advanced practice nursing programs. More info
  • CINAHL Complete Included in Library Search
    Provides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature, including more than 5,000 journals. More info
  • PubMed (includes MEDLINE) Included in Library Search
    This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by Appalachian State University Libraries. Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. More info

Nursing – Also Useful

  • AccessPhysiotherapy Included in Library Search
    AccessPhysiotherapy from McGraw-Hill Medical covers the in-depth study, instruction, and practice of physical therapy. More info
  • Anatomy.TV Not included in Library Search
    Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. More info
  • Cochrane Library Included in Library Search
    Evidence-based practice in health care; includes the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Cochrane Clinical Answers. More info
  • Google Scholar Not included in Library Search
    Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own. More info
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Included in Library Search
    Provides full text access to more than 540 scholarly journals and citations with abstracts to 800 other magazines and health care publications. More info
  • MEDLINE (Ovid) Included in Library Search
    The premier source for literature in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and allied health, dating from 1946 to present with some earlier content. Ovid version. More info
  • Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest) Included in Library Search
    Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 healthcare-related journals, with over 715 titles in full text. More info
  • PsycINFO Not included in Library Search
    Contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. More info
  • SUMARI Not included in Library Search
    "Register new user" to create an account. Support for researchers and health professionals to conduct a systematic review from anywhere in the world, facilitating 10 different types of systematic reviews from protocol to report. More info