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This Research Guide is designed to aid students in using Iona College Library resources to complete projects and assignments for the Nursing program and includes important reference works, articles in databases, and journals.
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Start Your Research
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Research EssentialsThis is your guide to better understanding the college research process, including how to find books and articles, evaluate information sources, avoid plagiarism, and properly cite sources when you write.
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Online Research: Tips for Effective Search Strategies (Youtube)This video covers usings boolean operators, quotation marks and asterisk when searching databases.
Search for Specific Journals, Newspapers and Magazines
What is MeSH?
What is a Primary Source?
Primary Source in science is a document or record that reports on a study, experiment, trial or research project. Primary sources are usually written by the person(s) who did the research, conducted the study, or ran the experiment, and include hypothesis, methodology, and results. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, statistical data, pieces of creative writing, audio and video recordings, speeches, and art objects. Interviews, surveys, fieldwork, and; Internet communications via email, blogs, listservs, and newsgroups are also primary sources.
Primary Sources include:
- Pilot/prospective studies
- Cohort studies
- Survey research
- Case studies
- Lab notebooks
- Clinical trials and randomized clinical trials/RCTs
- Dissertations
What is a Secondary Source?
Secondary sources list, summarize, compare, and evaluate primary information and studies so as to draw conclusions on or present current state of knowledge in a discipline or subject. Sources may include a bibliography which may direct you back to the primary research reported in the article. A secondary source is a summary or description of a research study written by someone other than the study investigator(s). You can identify a secondary source by determining whether the author(s) of the article did not investigate (conduct) the research described in the article, and instead, is describing research done by others.
Secondary Sources include:
- reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis
- newsletters and professional news sources
- practice guidelines & standards
- clinical care notes
- patient education Information
- government and legal Information
- monographs
- entries in nursing or medical encyclopedias
Databases
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CINAHL with Full TextCINAHL with Full Text provides the full text for nursing and allied health literature and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
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Ovid Nursing Full Text + Ovid Emcare - 2018Ovid Nursing Full Text PLUS is a single source of both premier current journal content from Lippincott and bibliographic and abstract data from the Ovid Nursing Database and Ovid Emcare.
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MEDLINE with Full TextThis database provides full text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE.
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PubMedPubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
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Nursing & Allied Health DatabaseProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields. Find coverage for over 70 wide-ranging topics including: Cytology, Nursing, Nutrition, Oncology, Pediatric Care, Pharmacology, Public Health, and Radiology.
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SAGE Journals OnlineSAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionThis database, updated on a daily basis, provides 550+ scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 800+ journals.
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Coronavirus Research DatabaseIncludes coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses.
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COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and LawIncorporated into HeinOnline Academic, this new Covid-19 database contains factual information about how COVID-19 has impacted public health, economics, society, and the world. Access hundreds of Congressional Research Service (CRS) and Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports, scholarly articles, and external links. The database is updated regularly as this fluctuating situation evolves.
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Healthcare Administration DatabaseThis database provides reliable and relevant information on a wide range of health administration topics, including: Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Statistics, Business management, Personnel management, Ethics, Health economics, and Public health administration.
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Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)This database provides access to nursing and allied health journals, plus Health Reference Center and the Alternative Health Module.
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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile)Users will discover proven treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, and find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting).
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PsycARTICLESFull-text of 50+ psychology journals, most published by the American Psychological Association. (Note: All full-text articles can also be accessed by searching the much larger PsycINFO database.)
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ERICArticles and documents related to education research, searching scholarly and trade journal articles.
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PsycINFOThe PsycINFO database, produced by the American Psychological Association’s (APA), contains 3 million+ records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600's. Journal coverage spans from the 1800's to the present and includes material from 2,500+ international periodicals in all fields relating to psychology.
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ScienceDirect (via SciVerse)ScienceDirect is Elsevier's platform for peer-reviewed, scholarly content to include over 3,800 journals and more than 37,000 books that span major scientific disciplines.
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Social Work AbstractsProduced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), provides indexing and abstracts for journals dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
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Academic Search EliteArticles from journals, magazines and other resources covering multidisciplinary topics.
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ProQuest CentralArticles from journals and newspapers covering all subject areas. Includes dissertations, working papers from OECD, company reports, and country profiles.
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SAGE Journals OnlineSAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.
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US DailiesSearch one or all of these daily national newspapers; Chicago Tribute, LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)Covering many current social issues, features updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, images and other resources.
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CQ ResearcherCongressional Quarterly reports addressing controversial current issues. Includes historical perspective, recent developments, statistics, opposing viewpoints, and sources for additional research.
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News (Gale OneFile)Provides access to more 1,000+ major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
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Flipster Digital MagazinesDigital newsstand that offers a browse-able access to popular magazines such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, and The New Yorker.
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General OneFile (Gale)Articles, reports and daily updates on a variety of topics: business, technology, current events, environmental issues, health care, humanities, politics, and many more.
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New York Times (1980 - Current)Often considered the official U.S. newspaper, the NYTimes publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences.
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Wall Street JournalThe WSJ is considered the US's preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Content available from 1984 - Current.
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StatistaFind statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies. Categorized into 21 market sectors, the platform provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
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PolicyMapUsers can access thousands of U.S. data indicators to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group up to a national level, or create custom regions, for research and studies.
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Social ExplorerSocial Explorer provides demographic information through thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790. Set up an account with your Iona email address to create interactive maps and reports down to the street level. Trial ends June 2021.
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Films on Demand: Allied Health CollectionThis collection of instructional videos is designed to help prepare future allied health professionals for practice across a diverse range of health care settings.
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Academic Video Online PremiumVideos covering Arts, Business, Criminal Justice, Diversity Studies, Education, Gender & Sexuality, Health, History, Literature, Psychology and Sciences. Contains content from 60 Minutes /CBS, PBS, BBC, NBC, Insight Media, etc.
Nursing Associations
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List of State, National and International Nursing Associationshttps://nurse.org/orgs.shtml