Databases

Biosis
Provides worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.  GFU has coverage from 1991 to 2004.

CINAHL with Full Text
Indexing for almost 3,000 journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, with full text for more than 600.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Includes almost 100 indexed and abstracted magazines/journals, 75 full text magazines/journals, 155 full text health reports, over 130 full text health books, the Mirriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, over 5,100 Clinical Reference System reports, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Nearly 550 full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals
The full text of 14 nursing journals from Lippincott.

Medline via Ebsco
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences. 1949 to the present.

Medline via Ovid
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences. 1950 to the present.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection
With over 4 million articles related to specialized care, treatment and management of all types of patients.

Nursing Reference Center
The NRC provides a user-friendly point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.  (Trial database, ends October 31st)

Nursing Resource Center
This resource brings together respected medical titles from Gale and Macmillan with, thorough nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Designed to match the "nursing process" workflow, the interface is intuitive to students and facilitates connections between the content and clinical practice.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. It provides abstracting and indexing for more than 780 titles, with over 650 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations.

PubMed
From the National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes MEDLINE and related databases. Over 18 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. PubMed may link to content we don't have online access to; please contact a librarian if you need assistance.

ScienceDirect College Edition
Full-text access to most Elsevier journals in the physical sciences and life sciences.  The collection contains four million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994. To see only full-text content, click on their green search button and then change the "source" to "Subscribed Journals."

Web resources

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
Reliable health information from the Mayo Clinic.

Medline Plus
Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Consumer health information from credible sources.

NursingCenter
A centralized platform to assist nurses in staying abreast of research and opportunities.

Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
Available through the National Library of Medicine.

Nursing Resources on the World Wide Web

Dictionaries

American nursing : a biographical dictionary

A dictionary of nursing (electronic resource)

Dictionary of nursing theory and research

Medically speaking a dictionary of quotations

on dentistry, medicine, and nursing (electronic resource)

Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of nursing research

The Gale encyclopedia of nursing & allied

health (electronic resource)

Professional organizations

AACN – Education - Additional Resources
A directory of nursing associations and other nursing resources from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

American Nurses Association

National Student Nurses Association

Oregon Nurses Association

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Google Search: Nursing

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.