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Recommended Databases

Rae's Recommended Databases

CINAHL Complete
Authoritative resource covering nursing and allied health. Includes abstracts of many titles. Use Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. Incompatible with InternetExplorer.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL), is the authoritative resource covering the English language journal literature for nursing and allied health. Material from over 1,600 journals are included in CINAHL; online abstracts are available for more than 1200 of these titles. Publications from the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing are indexed. The database also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing.
PubMed
Provides access to over 21 million MEDLINE citations and over 3 million additional life science journal article citations.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960s and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources, including links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior. NOTE: Only 5 simultaneous users allowed.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

NOTE: Only 5 simultaneous users allowed.
Cochrane Library
Provides high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving health care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration of health care at all levels

The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving health care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration of health care at all levels. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Resources on Ovid
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Resources on Ovid features content and tools supporting evidence-based practice from JBI's global network of Collaborating Centers.

JBI is summarized research in a format that is easy to locate,understand and distribute. Extensive tools are designed to help EBP policy and practice manual development based on the best available evidence, with additional resources designed to help assess the quality of research.