Articles & Journals
Need Help Searching Database?
Review the "How to Database Search" video by Bill Komanecki, MLIS, Librarian.
How to Retrieve Citations for a Journal Issue
Review the "How to Retrieve Citations for a Journal Issue" document by Bill Komanecki, MLIS, Librarian.
OSF Libraries Resources
How to Identify a Research Article
Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing students have access to a variety of databases and resources through the OSF Libraries website.
College of Nursing students have access to the databases listed below:
CinahlPlus via Ebsco
- Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
- Premier research database for nursing
- 1,200 journals indexed, some dating from 1982
- Many full-text articles available
Health Business FullText Elite via EBSCO
- Comprehensive content from 480 journals
- Covers all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management
- Topics include hospital management, hospital administration, marketing, human resources, computer technology, facilities management, and insurance
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCO
- Indexing for 550 scholarly full text journals
- Includes 450 peer-reviewed journals
- Abstracts and citations from 850 additional journals provided
- Strong coverage of nursing and allied health disciplines
Ovid Medline
- The National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database
- User-friendly Ovid platform for easier searching
- Subjects covered include medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences
- Many articles are available full-text
Journal Holdings
- Search all OSF subscribed journals
- Lists both print and online journals
- Links provide immediate access to online journal content
Electronic Nursing Journals
- American Journal of Bioethics
- Clinical Simulation in Nursing
- Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
- Imprint - the Professional Magazine for Student Nurses
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Journal of Informatics Nursing
- Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Journal of Nursing Measurement
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Nursing Clinics of North America
- Nursing Science Quarterly
- Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice
PubMed
- Created by the National Library of Medicine
- Free search engine for medical literature
- Covers all areas of medicine, nursing, and allied health
- Primarily citations and abstracts
Cochrane Reviews
- Produced by the International Cochrane Collaborative
- Systematic reviews that are based on the efforts of 50 working groups
- They investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation as well as assess the accuracy of diagnostic tests