| About the Periodicals
Databases |
| Periodicals databases allow users to search for journal articles. DCCC
students have several available to them both on campus and online. The
three databases described the primary ones used by nursing students. Keep
in mind that no one source or database is perfect; you may need to consult
several sources to complete your paper. |
| CINAHL |
| CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) indexes
articles from more than 1000 journals and magazines. The licensing agreement
permits only one user at a time. Although this database is specifically
for Nurses, there are also some titles for consumers such as Time and
US News & World Report. Do not use these general magazines for your
research. Many, but not all, of the articles in this database are full
text. Some of your retrieved results will only be the citation (journal
name, pages, author, and title of article) without the full text. If you
need one that does not show the entire text, you would use the online
interlibrary
loan form to obtain the entire article from another library. |
| Ebsco |
| Ebsco Academic Search Premier has many subjects, including nursing.
Many, but not all, of the articles in this database are full text. Some
of your retrieved results will only be the citation (journal name, pages,
author, title of article) without the full text. In this case you would
use the online interlibrary
loan form to obtain the entire article from another library. |
| Wilson |
| Wilson indexes articles from many disciplines including nursing titles
like RN. All of the articles in this database are full text. |