Research Help: Forensic Nursing Research Guide: Databases

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I hope you will not find the long list of suggested databases intimidating! The intent is not to overwhelm but to suggest the wide range of resources available to you - criminal justice, health, nursing, psychology, sociology.

Type in the name of a journal to see if the AVGC Library has access to it online or in our print collection:

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IF you seek scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles, these suggested databases will provide full-text content.

CINAHL Ultimate
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Access to full text, abstracting and indexing of over 270 core journals covering research areas in international criminal justice and criminology such as criminal law, corrections, policing & investigation and forensic science.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Authoritative information on health-related questions
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic (Now called Nexis Uni)
Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal (including cases and legislation), medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications. Includes reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.
ProQuest Social Science Database
Search full-text scientific journals covering the social sciences. Provides information on hundreds of topics, including: Addiction studies, Urban studies, Family studies, International relations.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Full text coverage on topics: emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PubMedCentral
The National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
Sociology Source Ultimate
Comprehensive sociology research database; contains full text for books and monographs, journals and conference papers.

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Forming a Search Strategy (worksheet)
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Scholarly Journal Checklist
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Forensic Nursing Research Guide: Databases

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