Manuscript Preparation Resources: Searching the Literature

CINAHL Plus provides indexing for 3,123 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheets. Searchable cited references for more than 1,190 journals are also included. Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. For more information look at the: CINAHL Tutorials

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Citations in PubMed primarily stem from the biomedicine and health fields, and related disciplines such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC). To see and use the Get it@Becker button to test for full text at Becker, use PubMed links from the Library's website.

PubMed facilitates searching across several NLM literature resources: MEDLINE, PubMed Central (PMC) and Bookshelf.

SCOPUS is a large bibliographic database of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and includes abstracts to conference proceedings, trade publications, books and patents.
SCOPUS provides evidence of collaboration with other scientists and organizations, publication productivity, cited-by works, the h-index and tools for creating citation graphs. Scopus also offers a Citation Tracker feature that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a publication since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of a Citation Overview chart and for removal of self-citations from the overall citation counts.

The Web of Science Core Collection searches the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (covers 5 years ago – present).
Follow to search only the three primary collections: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index

The Web of Science Core Collection is on Web of Science, a comprehensive research platform that allows access to and concurrent searching of multiple databases. Find training materials here: Web of Science Platform Training resources