Library Research Guides: Nursing: Finding Articles

Starting Your Research...

After you have your list of keywords to use in your searching, try using Bison Search to locate relevant articles. Bison Search is also a great tool to use when you are trying to find the full text of an article citation.

Not finding what you need with Bison Search? Try searching PubMed or ScienceDirect for articles.

CINAHL Complete
Provides full text for more than 1,300 nursing and allied health journals.

Using CINAHL/MeSH Subject Headings Tutorial

PubMed
Contains more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

PubMed Basics
An overview of PubMed basics
Searching PubMed with MeSH
An overview of using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to search PubMed.

PubMed Search Tutorial
Watch this brief tutorial on searching PubMed.

ScienceDirect
Contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

Using ScienceDirect's Advanced Search Tutorial
Watch this 3-minute video to learn how to use ScienceDirect's advanced search feature.

Bison Search Tutorial

What if I find an article citation on the Web?

Check if Beaman Library has access to the article by searching the article title surrounded by quotation marks in the Bison Search box.
Check Google Scholar for full text by searching the article title surrounded by quotation marks in the Google Scholar search box.
If you cannot find the full text article, submit an interlibrary loan request.