NUR 4033 or 4100 -- Nursing Research: Overview

Quick links to:   PubMed     CINAHL     PsycINFO     SPORTDiscus     Web of Science     Google Scholar

Late February 2021 -- Google Scholar often becomes difficult to access during midterms.  Google does not like that we have so many people going through our off-campus connection.  We have to respond for a week or so by having our log in on the Find@AppState link.  This means clicking on article titles will not work as it normally would.  Use the Find@AppState links.

Need help? I'm available: email wiswellj@, Zoom, chat, appointment.   Zoom by appointment.  Email if these times don't work.

I have Zoom office hours Wednesdays 3-4pm and Fridays 11-12noon.  I'm scheduled for chat right before these times also, Wed1-3 and Fri 9-11.

Having problems with accessing full text of articles?

Hey, I'm interested in examples when you cannot get full text that it appears we should have.  My testing shows our linking is working pretty well, but it helps to get examples with details when things are not working.  We also have a "Report a Problem" page that goes to my colleagues Allan and Andie.     Thanks, JohnW, wiswellj@appstate.edu

Does APPsearch include articles found in CINAHL and PubMed?

Use CINAHL and PubMed for most of your needs.  I like APPsearch and Google Scholar too.  But CINAHL is a Nursing-friendly world.  And PubMed is what you will most easily have available throughout your career.

APPsearch does include CINAHL.  A lot of the top results for the searches you do will be from CINAHL.

7/30/2018 -- Our Find@ASU linking to this important set of journals is not working.  I'm sorry for the nuisance, but here is a temporary solution.  If you are trying to access an Ovid journal (also called Wolters Kluwer), use this link into the entire set of journals.  Then search on the article title.

8/2/2018 -- I'm still seeing this problem.  I think in almost all cases this is a problem related to Ovid's slowness but that can sometimes be resolved by clicking through the sequence a second time.  Changing browsers (and clearing history/cleaning your cache) has worked at times also.  Or use the link into Ovid below and search there.

I'm sorry about the obstacles all year.  Thanks for hanging in there.  Maybe we'll see the golden age of information access someday. For now, Go App Nurses!   --JW

Congratulations graduates!

• PubMed will always be available, and the free abstracts are reasonably informative.  This is the free version of PubMed, that is not linked to Library subscriptions.
• The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), NICE (from the UK), and other countries' agencies continues to summarize and appraise the evidence.  AHRQ 1, AHRQ 2, NICE 1, NICE 2. 
  • (July 2018 -- The National Guidelines Clearinghouse has been taken down by AHRQ.  Unfortunately.  Look for it on another site this fall 2018.)
• Cochrane has a free website and offers many of their reviews for free.
• Many research articles (had been up >50%, but I think that's fallen again) become available for free on the web in the months after their publication, due to requirements of funding agencies and the cooperation of publishers and universities.  Google Scholar is useful for finding most of these.
• Consider signing up for the AHEC Digital Library.
• Ask a librarian.  I do what I can, within the law and licenses, for alumni and community.