LibraryGuides: Nutrition: Finding Articles

Databases

CINAHL [EBSCOhost] (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) indexes over 1,200 nursing and allied health periodicals. Also covers fire science, emergency medicine, nutrition, and biomedicine.
Medline via Pubmed
*Downtime July 26* The largest database of medicine- and dentistry- related abstracts, produced by the National Library of Medicine.
How to Use Medline

Proquest Medical Databases
You can search ten databases with medical content in a single search.

ScienceDirect
Scholarly journal articles from the health, life, social, and behavioral sciences.
Access limited to journals in the Health & Life Sciences and the Social & Behavioral Sciences collections.

CINAHL Self Guided
Interactive tutorial on using the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, stressing the most useful features for the Nursing program. Includes a quiz that will allow a student to print or download a graded certificate which they can submit to show that they have completed the tutorial.
How to Search for Evidence-Based Articles in CINAHL
Gives instructions on using CINAHL search capabilities to find articles for evidence-based nursing (5 minutes, 53 seconds)
How to Use Medline (Self Guided)
Interactive tutorial will introduce searching in Medline via PubMed, the use of various filters to focus your search, finding the text of the articles, and the use of the Medical Subject Headings.
At the end of the tutorial you will be able to take a brief self-test and download a certificate showing that you have completed the tutorial.
How to Use the MeSH Subject Browser to Search in MEDLINE
Using the MeSH Subject Browser gives the best results for most searches.
How to Find Evidence-Based Articles in Medline
Shows how to use article type to limit to evidence-based articles