Research Guides: Nursing: Databases

Where to Begin

Databases vary in subject specialty. Review descriptions to find the best fit for your topic before starting your search. Generally in nursing, PubMed or CINAHL are great starting places.

Tips

Always search more than one database.
Always use key words.
- NEVER enter your entire research question into a search box.
- Typing a sentence or research question into a database search box will yield an overwhelming amount of irrelevant results.
Create database accounts whenever possible.
- This provides " "insurance" if your search session times out and allows you to save searches.

Alphabetical Listing of Selected Databases

The Selected Databases list focuses on nursing, health science, and biomedical topics.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text for more than 1,300 nursing & allied health journals.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases that include full-text systematic reviews, as well as other sources of information such as other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Full text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Offers 24/7 access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Health & Medical Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Provides citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals covering all areas of medicine.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
OvidSP This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 80 scholarly journals covering nursing, medicine, and health sciences. To see the available full-text content, click on Additional Limits and check Ovid Full Text Available.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
A library of over 300 training videos featuring the leading practitioners in the field.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the world's leading citation databases, with coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access Journals. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage dating back to 1965.

UpToDate
Evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource that assists clinicians with point-of-care decisions.

Download & Install UpToDate On Your Device

Select UpToDate from the database list
It may auto-land you on the Registration form. If it does, simply follow the prompts to create your our free UpToDate account
If it doesn’t click the Register button (upper right of screen), complete the online application, click the Send Verification Code button, then go to your email and follow the prompts.
Once you have your account, here is a link to instructions for downloading the app from the APP Store or Google Play: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/uptodate/uptodate/mobile
Here is a short video tutorial for installation, setup, and usage:

Renewing UpToDate Access

Select UpToDate from the database list.
Select the Sign In option (top right corner)
On the sign in page, BELOW the user/password boxes, select OpenAthens.
You should be taken to a “Find your institution” page.
Start typing Tyler – University of Texas – Tyler should come up as an option.
Select it.
Next, a pop-up box with “Choose how to sign-in” will come up.
Select University of Texas at Tyler
Now use your UTTyler Sign in credentials.
This should effectively “renew” your subscription.

Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health provides access to authoritative content including full-text titles cited in CINAHL supporting specialized care, treatment, and patient management. This essential resource is versatile and features highlighting and note-taking tools as well as an intuitive interface, providing multiple pathways to key information. Updated daily, this resource will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

Muntz Library provides access hundreds of databases!

Select the image below to explore our entire database collection.

Additional Databases

This section contains recommended databases in the most commonly requested topical areas outside of nursing/health sciences.

Anatomy.TV This link opens in a new window
Powered by Primal Pictures, view a complete and medically accurate 3D model of the human anatomy.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
SPORTDiscus with Fulltext This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for 415 sports and sports medicine journals.

Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
Consumer Health Database This link opens in a new window
Includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals, including 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts This link opens in a new window
Contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
A first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice, which provides a thorough grounding in dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, insight into the human condition, and training in skills such as reflection and empathy while working with specific populations such as veterans and teens.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
A library of over 300 training videos featuring the leading practitioners in the field.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts, and its companion file Social Services Abstracts, cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.
Sociology Database This link opens in a new window
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies.

Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Educational Science and Technology This link opens in a new window
A collection of ebooks in emerging technology areas of education, such as blended learning, gaming, and learning analytics.
Education Database This link opens in a new window
Supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete is a collection of journals & periodicals that seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
The Education Resources Information Center contains more than 1.6 million records and links to more than 631,000 full-text documents.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed for professional educators, this database provides 520 education journals as well as more than 200 educational reports.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
Feature material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness with full text articles for more than 180 international journals and reports.
Natural & Alternative Treatments This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories.

Alexander Street (Academic Video Online‎) This link opens in a new window
Curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.
Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
A first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice, which provides a thorough grounding in dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, insight into the human condition, and training in skills such as reflection and empathy while working with specific populations such as veterans and teens.
PBS Video Collection: Fourth Edition This link opens in a new window
More than 1,200 streaming videos of documentaries and series from PBS; with a range of content from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business and economics, and more.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
A library of over 300 training videos featuring the leading practitioners in the field.

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Where to Begin

Databases vary in subject specialty. Review descriptions to find the best fit for your topic before starting your search. Generally in nursing, PubMed or CINAHL are great starting places.

Tips

Always search more than one database.

Always use key words.

NEVER enter your entire research question into a search box.

Typing a sentence or research question into a database search box will yield an overwhelming amount of irrelevant results.

Create database accounts whenever possible.

This provides " "insurance" if your search session times out and allows you to save searches.

Alphabetical Listing of Selected Databases

The Selected Databases list focuses on nursing, health science, and biomedical topics.

Download & Install UpToDate On Your Device

Renewing UpToDate Access

Muntz Library provides access hundreds of databases!

Select the image below to explore our entire database collection.

Additional Databases

This section contains recommended databases in the most commonly requested topical areas outside of nursing/health sciences.