LibGuides: Subject Guides for Websites: ARTICLES

ARTICLES (Health & Nursing)

Allnurses.com, Inc.
• http://allnurses.com/
• Allnurses.com Inc.
• .com
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A commercially run online social-media community designed to provide information to and a means for interaction among nursing professionals.
BioMed Central
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/search
• BioMed Central Ltd, part of Springer Science+Business Media
• .com
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A STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology and medicine. Registration is free, but is required.
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides a comprehensive, subject-organized list of open access journals that are peer reviewed. Defines “open access journal” as any which does not charge readers or institutions for access.
MedScape.com
• http://www.medscape.com/
• WebMD®
• .com
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Offers original, professional medical content, including review articles, journal commentary, expert columns, patient education articles, book reviews, and more. It also provides the primary-source medical journal, The Medscape from WebMD Journal of Medicine. Registration is required.
Public Library of Science - PLOS
• https://www.plos.org/
• PLOS
• .org
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Provides open access to 215,000+ peer-reviewed articles across in the sciences and medicine.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• National Institutes of Health
• .gov
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Different databases provide access to current health news, medical literature and encyclopedias, health statistics, clinical trials, free full-text articles, grants & funding, history of medicine, Human Genome resources, and more.
WebMD Medical Encyclopedia
• https://www.webmd.com/
• WebMD, LLC
• .com
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A consumer-oriented medical encyclopedia (Health A-Z) with articles about various health topics, a symptom checker feature, drug & supplement reference information, and other information about healthy living, teen health, pet health, and parenting & pregnancy.
WorldWideScience.org
• https://worldwidescience.org/index.html
• WorldWide Science Alliance, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
• .org
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Provides one-stop searching of scientific databases and portals from around the world. Includes access to multilingual scientific literature, and multilingual searching capabilities.

Last update: 8/11/2021

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a variation of Google. It is designed specifically for scholarly literature searches.

Advantages

It’s free to use.
It has a simple, familiar interface that works much like regular Google.
It finds scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of disciplines.

Disadvantages

Coverage is not comprehensive. It is a good first place to start researching a paper, but not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.
Criteria used for selecting “scholarly” materials is not given. Search results can be a mixture of articles and books as well as unpublished manuscripts, course syllabi, and high school term papers, so you must critically evaluate what you find.
Results are not always full-text or free like regular Google. Often the link for an article will take you to the publishers website where the full article is available only if you buy it.