Finding information for nursing and midwifery

This is a guide to locating nursing related information and materials in both print and electronic format at the Charles Darwin University Library.

Where do I start my research?

A good way to start your research is to define your topic by using subject dictionaries and to
find background information in encyclopaedias such as:

Title	Call Number/Location
A Dictionary of Nursing	REF 610.3 DICT Electronic version
An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs	Electronic version
Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing	610.7303 CHUR
Dictionary of Medical Syndromes	REF 616.07203 MAGA
Encyclopaedia of Human Biology	REF 612.003 ENCY
Gray's Anatomy: The anatomical basis of medicine and surgery	REF 611 GRAY 611 GRAY
Miller-Keane Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health	REF 610.3 MILL
MIMS (drug reference guide)	REF 615.1 MIMS
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference	616.075 PAGA
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary	REF 610.3 MOSB ASC REF 610.3 MOSB Alice Springs
Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference 2004	REF 615.11 SKID
The Gale Encyclopaedia of Alternative Medicine	REF 615.503 GALE
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy	REF 616.075 MERC Electronic version

How do I find books on my subject?

To find books on your subject you can:

Search the Library Catalogue using the 'subject keyword' or 'general keyword' option
OR
Browse the bookshelves using these call numbers:

Call Number or Location	Subject
155	Differential and developmental psychology
158	Applied psychology, interpersonal relations
174.2	Medical ethics
176	Ethics of sex, reproduction, contraception
179.7	Ethics dealing with respect for human life, euthanasia
302	Social interaction
304.6	Social ecology, death, life expectancy
306	Culture and institutions
344.940414	Australian nursing law
362.1	General works on illness, medical care, public health and health sociology
363.9	General works on problems, population growth, birth control
610.73	Nursing
610.73072	Research methodology in nursing
610.734	Community nursing, primary health care nursing
610.7361	Acute care, intensive care nursing
610.7362	Paediatric nursing
610.7365	Geriatric nursing
610.7377	Surgical nursing
610.7378	Obstetrical and gynaecological nursing
610.7368	Mental health nursing
611	Human anatomy
612	Human physiology
613	Health promotion
613.2	Dietetics, nutrition
613.7	Physical fitness, exercise
613.9	Birth control, family planning, sex hygiene
615	Pharmacology
616	Diseases
617.1	Injuries and wounds, first aid
618	Gynaecology and obstetrics

How do I find journal articles (Databases)?

The library holds journals in print and electronic formats. The best way to access articles in these journals is by using the databases listed below. When you find an article you want to read, use the Library Catalogue and the E-journals list to see if we hold a print copy or have access to the electronic copy in full-text. Some databases listed will have direct links to the full-text article. The databases listed are just a few of the many available.

Nursing databases
Multi-discipline databases
Related databases
Electronic journals

Nursing databases

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
CINAHL is a cumulative index to nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals (via EBSCOhost). A very good tutorial can be found here, from the University of Florida

Cochrane library (Wiley Interscience)
Systematic reviews and other information that will assist in making diagnostic, treatment and other health care decisions. Select: Log On and then: Log on anonymously.
For help use the Cochrane Library user guide

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

MEDLINE via PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Tutorial | Very good tutorial from University of Florida

Multi-discipline databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is multi-disciplinary.

Current Contents Connect (ISI)
This is a multidisciplinary current awareness web resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.

Emerald Fulltext
A collection of over 42,000 searchable articles from over 100 management journals. Subjects covered include Management, Human Resources Management, Library and Information Management, Marketing, Mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering.

Ingenta
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online.

Science Direct
World's largest electronic collection of science, technology & medical full text and bibliographic information. Note that CDU does not have access to all material.

Web of Science (ISI)
Provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Related databases

HealthWiz
The National Social Health Statistical Data Library, HealthWIZ, on CD-ROM is used to disseminate comprehensive population health related statistical databases, across the Australian health services sector, for the purposes of clinical research, policy development and health services planning, particularly in regional areas. NOTE: This database is not accessible via the Internet. but can be borrowed from the CDU library to be installed with the help of ITM Support staff on local workstations

INFORMIT Databases
Provide access to Australian materials in areas relating to health across a wide variety of databases.

AUSThealth Indexes
Online Including AMI - Australasian Medical Index 1968 -, APAIS-Health - Australian Public Affairs Information Service – Health 1978 - ATSIhealth - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography 1900 - AusportMed 1989 - CINCH-Health - Health Issues in Criminal Justice 1968 - DRUG - Drug Database 1974 - H&S - Health & Society Database 1980 - HIVA - HIV/AIDS Database 1980 – and RURAL - Rural and Remote Health Database

APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Provides bibliographic and some full text access to articles from the social sciences and humanities.

Meditext
An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of health and medicine.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
Iindexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.
Title List More Information

Synergy interface (Blackwell Science Journals
Full text journal database from Blackwell Publishers covering a range of disciplines.

Wiley Interscience
Features over 1000 journals, major reference works, online books and databases plus professional and management resources.

Electronic journals on the web

E-Journal Portal
The CDU access point to all full text journals relating to health and other subjects. The link above is to the collection called Health Sciences: Medical Sciences: Nurses and Nursing.

This link below is for journals relating to Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Midwifery .
E-journal portal link

Highwire Press
This is a division of the Stanford University Libraries. HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 882 journals and 1,045,838 free, full-text articles online. With their partner publishers they produce 72 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. Some are embargoed for 12 months or so.

OVID interface
This interface provides direct access to these 3 fulltext titles below as well as to search the Ovid interface for other articles which may be available from other collections we have access to.

Nursing Research
A sought-after reference source for nurse researchers, clinicians, practitioners, educators, and students, Nursing Research is a well-respected forum. Each issue highlights the latest research, qualitative and quantitative studies, state-of-the-art methodology strategies not yet found in textbooks, new computer techniques, commentaries, briefs, and more. Coverage - January 1996 issue onwards.

MCN : the American Journal of maternal child nursing
Provides information to nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, and pediatric specialties.
Coverage includes updates on disease and related care; ideas on health promotion; insights into patient and family behavior; discoveries in physiology and pathophysiology; clinical investigations; and research manuscripts that assist nurses toward evidence-based practices. Coverage 1996 onwards

American Journal of Nursing
Provides comprehensive and in-depth information to help nurses stay current in their profession. Coverage includes practical, hands-on clinical articles on essential topics, vital information on drugs, clinical, nursing and healthcare news, research and more. Cutting-edge features and departments include Practice Errors, Research for Practice, Infectious Disease and Washington Watch. Coverage 1996 onwards

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 1933 journals in the directory. Currently 472 journals are searchable at article level.

Web Sites

Associations

Drug Information

Gateways/Subject Directories

Government departments

Health Research

Online journals

Statistics

How do I cite and manage my information resources?

Below are guides to citation styles and other aspects of presentation.

EndNote is personal bibliographic software used to manage your sources when
undertaking in-depth research. The library provides regular training in EndNote for postgraduates and staff.

Title	Location or call number
A guide for writing research papers	http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/index.htm
APA style resources	http://www.psywww.com/resource/apacrib.htm
Citation styles for online resources	http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
EndNote	http://www.cdu.edu.au/library/endnote/training.html
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed.	REF 808.02 PUBL and main 808.02 PUBL
Studyskills	http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/studyskills/

This guide was adapted with permission from http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/subj/nursing.html.