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American Nurses Association's Nursing World Links to state nurses associations and allied nursing organizations globally.
www.nursingworld.org |
Canadian Nursing Index Comprehensive links to education, employment, and other resources focused on needs of Canadian nurses.
www.nursingindex.com |
Hardin Meta Directory's Nursing and Nursing Research Links to subject directories for nursing.
www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/nurs.html |
Healthweb Nursing
www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60 |
National Institute of Nursing Research
http://ninr.nih.gov/ninr/ |
National League for Nursing
www.nln.org |
NP Central Nonprofit site dedicated to practice development, advancement, and educational support of nurse practitioners and to the promotion of accessible, quality health care to the consumer.
www.npcentral.net |
Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, Medical Library Association Links to member libraries, section activities, current research. Includes link to Key and Electronic Nursing Journals: Characteristics and Database Coverage, an essential tool for evaluating nursing journals.
http://nahrs.library.kent.edu |
NursingCenter Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins gives practicing nurses, researchers, and educators direct access to powerful educational opportunities and information. Includes CE articles in full text with immediate test results and certificates; 50 nursing journals with table of contents and abstracts; and databases of certification, licensure, and nursing organizations.
www.nursingcenter.com |
Nursing Resources on the World Wide Web McMaster University's meta site.
http://hsl.lib.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/nurses.html |
Nursing Theory Page
www.sandiego.edu/nursing/theory/ |
Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
http://nnlm.gov/train/nursing/sampler.html |
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information UK gateway to high quality biomedical resources. Includes database access to resources included in NMAP, a guide to quality Internet resources in nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions.
http://omni.ac.uk |
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing A high quality example of a totally electronic nursing journal, published by Kent State University School of Nursing in partnership with American Nurses Association. "Information Resources" column includes articles on information literacy and searching.
www.nursingworld.org/ojin/ |
PDAs for Nurses Links to sites about where to access/purchase clinical reference resources for handheld devices.
http://info.med.yale.edu/library/nursing/pda/ |
Sigma Theta Tau International /Virginia Henderson Electronic Library Databases about nurse researchers and research, including abstracts of STTI and other nursing research conferences; tables of content for STTI publications Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, and Reflections on Nursing Leadership.
www.nursingsociety.org |
Sigma Theta Tau International /Nursing Knowledge International STTI subsidiary offers access to free and fee-based evidence-based nursing resources developed by leading organizations around the globe.
www.nursingknowledge.org/Portal/main.aspx |
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| ARCHIVES |
American Association for the History of Nursing Links to other nonprofit, education, and government websites relevant to nursing history.
www.aahn.org/weblink.html |
American College of Nurse Midwives ACNM Archives, 1945-1994.
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/nursing/midwiferyalpha.html#3 |
Boston University /History of Nursing Archives Personal and professional papers of nursing leaders, schools of nursing records, public health and professional organizations and early text books.
www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/historical/nursing.html |
| Hall, L. A. (1997). Nurses in the archives: Archival sources for nursing history. London: Routledge. |
| The History of Nursing: An Index to the Microfiche Collection. University Microfilms, International, 1983-1988. |
| Interagency Council on Library Resources for Nursing (1989). Guide to Archival Sources in Nursing. The Council. |
National League for Nursing NLN Archives 1894-1952, US National Library of Medicine.
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/nln.html |
Sandler, W., & Rees, J. P., Eds. (2002). Midwifery, Nursing, and Obstetrics Manuscript Collections at NLM: A Subject Guide. National Library of Medicine.
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/nursing/home.html |
University of Pennsylvania /Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Records of hospitals, schools of nursing, nursing alumni associations, professional and military associations, and personal papers.
www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/ |
Zwerdling, M. (2004). Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Chosen by American Journal of Nursing as 2004 Nursing Book of the Year.
www.nursepostcard.com |
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AUDIOVISUALS
In addition to sources listed below, information on audiovisuals can be found in publishers' catalogs, library catalogs including NLM LocatorPlus, CINAHL, and print and online catalogs of professional nursing organizations. |
| Bowker's Complete Video Directory. (2005). New York, NY: Bowker. Four-volume set with focus on education, special interest, and entertainment. Also available on CD-ROM. |
LocatorPlus (See Databases section.)
http://locatorplus.gov/ |
National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) Covers videotapes, films, audiocassettes, filmstrips, and other nonprint educational media. Records date back to 1900. Includes >454,000 indexed items.
www.nicem.com |
| Video Source Book (35th ed.). (2003). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. Frequently updated editions provide access to >160,000 video titles. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES /BOOK LISTS
In addition to sources listed below, information on new nursing books can be found in publishers' catalogs, library catalogs including NLM LocatorPlus, CINAHL, and print and online catalogs of professional nursing organizations. |
AJN Book of the Year Awards Published annually in January issue of AJN. Annotated list of the most valuable nursing books of the year as chosen by American Journal of Nursing panel of judges. Books are listed by nursing specialty.
www.ajnonline.com |
| Clamp, C. G. L., Gough, S., & Land, L. (2005). Resources for Nursing Research: An Annotated Bibliography (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Covers books, journals, and Internet resources produced from 1980s onward. |
Collection Development Section, Medical Library Association Subject-based resource lists. Links to print/web-based resources and bibliographies for many health sciences, including nursing.
http://colldev.mlanet.org/subject.html |
Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences Aims to fill the void created by the discontinuation of the Brandon/Hill Selected Lists for the small medical library in nursing and allied health. Book selectors include nurses and librarians.
www.doody.com/dct/ |
Doody's Electronic Journal This web-based journal offers structured expert reviews of medical, nursing, and allied health books and software. www.doody.com/dej.htm. Members of Sigma Theta Tau International can access an enhanced version of this service as part of the Book and Literature Review search at "My Info Search."
www.nursingsociety.org |
Hill, D. R., & Stickell, H. N. (2002). Brandon/Hill Selected List of Print Nursing Books and Journals. Nursing Outlook. May-June, 50(3), 100-113. Final print version of this list includes 370 books and 86 serials, including one nursing index.
www.mssm.edu/library/brandon-hill/nursing/index.shtml |
Hill, D. R., Stickell, H., & Crow, S. J. (2003). Brandon/Hill Selected List of Print Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library. Final online edition of this list is at
www.mssm.edu/library/brandon-hill/small_medical/pdf/brandon4.pdf |
| Lomax, E., & Setterlund, S. K. (2005). A Virtual Reference Shelf for Nursing Students and Faculty: Selected Sources. Journal of Library Administration, 44(1-2), 429-450. Both free and fee-based electronic references. Includes web and PDA sources. |
| R. R. Bowker. Medical and Health Care Books and Serials in Print, 2005: An Index to Literature in the Health Sciences (two volumes, annual). New Providence, NJ. Subject, author, and title access to > 95,000 English and foreign language books, US and foreign serials in medical and health subject areas. |
| Silver, J. I. (2004). Implications for librarians of magnet hospital designation. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 4(2), 37-46. Appendix includes basic bibliography to support hospital libraries with magnet nursing services. |
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| BIOETHICS
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American Nurses Association. (2001). Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. Washington DC: American Nurses Publishing. Online for viewing only.
www.nursingworld.org/ethics/code/protected_nwcoe303.htm |
American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights Site includes center activities, bibliographies, Code of Ethics, policy development, position statements, and issues updates.
www.nursingworld.org/ethics/ |
| Brody, B. A., et al. (2000). Medical Ethics: Codes, Opinions, and Statements. Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs. |
Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics. National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL). Books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nrc/index.htm. The ETHX bibliographic database includes >180,000 citations
www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/databases/index.htm |
International Code of Ethics for Nurses Published by International Council of Nurses (ICN). First adopted in 1953 and revised and reaffirmed at various times since; also available in French, Spanish, and German.
www.icn.ch/icncode.pdf |
Nursing Ethics at Boston College School of Nursing Resources, database, abstracts, reviews, collections, links.
www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/son/ethics/ |
| Post, S. G. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Bioethics (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan Reference USA. |
| Schroeter, K., Derse, A., Junkerman, C., & Schiedermayer, D. (2002). Practical Ethics for Nurses and Nursing Students: A Short Reference Manual. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group. |
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Center for Bioethics News, related links, resource links, events, special features, streaming video, funding sources.
www.bioethics.upenn.edu |
| Walters, L., Kahn, T. J., & Goldstein, D.M. (2004). Bibliography of Bioethics. Washington, DC: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Annual index containing >3,600 new citations to documents in bioethics, derived from citations added to the NLM databases. |
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| COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM)
CAM is defined as a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered part of conventional medicine. |
Reference Books and Reports |
Barnes, P., Powell-Griner, E., McFann K., & Nahin, R. (2004, May 27). CDC Advance Data Report #343. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002. Report available with press release, statistics, and downloadable graphics.
http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camsurvey.htm |
Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public. (2005). Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States. Washington, DC. National Academies Press. Free online at:
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11182.html |
| Dossey, B., Keegan, L., & Guzzetta, C. E. (2004). Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (4th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett. |
Gordon, J. S. (2002). White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy: Final Report and Next Steps. Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, 8(3), 28-31. Free online at:
http://whccamp.hhs.gov/finalreport.html |
| Snyder, M., & Lindquist, R. (2001). Complementary/Alternative Therapies in Nursing (4th ed.). New York: Springer Publishing. Textbook or handbook for undergraduate/graduate students and practicing nurses. |
Sparber, A. (2001, August 31). State Boards of Nursing and Scope of Practice of Registered Nurses Performing Complementary Therapies. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 6(3), Manuscript 10.
www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic15/tpc15_6.htm |
| Spencer, J. W., & Jacobs, J. (Eds.). (2003). Complementary/Alternative Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (2nd ed). St. Louis: Mosby. |
Databases
Articles in journals such as Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine , Complementary Therapies in Nursing & Midwifery , Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine , and Journal of Holistic Nursing , are best accessed via databases. Scope notes in individual databases provide descriptions as well as related subject terms for further searching. See also: Databases and Indexes. |
Alt HealthWatch Focuses on many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Indexes articles, reports, proceedings, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts as well as association and consumer newsletters from >140 international sources. Available by subscription or through libraries.
www.epnet.com/academic/default.asp |
AMED Alternative medicine database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library; scope primarily European. Available by subscription or through libraries.
www.epnet.com/academic/default.asp |
CAM on PubMed National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the NLM have partnered to create CAM on PubMed, a subset of NLM's PubMed.
www.nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html |
Websites |
American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) A nonprofit educational organization open to nurses and health care professionals who are interested in holistic health care.
www.ahna.org |
Alternative Medicine Homepage (University of Pittsburgh) Extensive meta-site.
www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html |
MedlinePlus: Complementary and Alternative Therapies Topics
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/complementaryandalternativetherapies.html |
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Explores CAM healing practices in the context of rigorous science to train researchers and disseminate authoritative information to the public and professionals.
http://nccam.nih.gov |
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CURRENT AWARENESS
Many services and sites allow nurses to receive and actively access relevant, specialized, up-to-date information. Register for free table of contents and subject alerting services from many individual publishers and aggregators. Consider recurring searches in CINAHL and MEDLINE databases specific to your interests. |
Medscape Nurses Includes free newsletters in nursing (or other editions) and daily email alerts on clinical advances in specialty areas.
www.medscape.com/nurseshome/ |
NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories Posts clinical email alerts to expedite the release of findings from NIH-funded clinical trials where release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality.
www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.html#alerts |
NurseLinx.com Publishes current abstracts of articles from selected nursing and medical journals. Offers free daily email newsletter with brief abstracts and weblinks.
www.nurselinx.com |
PLoS Journals Offers free email alerts for Public Library of Science open-access journals.
http://admin.co.allenpress.com/admin/plosonline/webusers/public/form |
Forums and Electronic Discussion Lists |
HealthWeb Nursing Discussion Lists
www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?categoryid=1723 |
In Our Own Words: Medscape Nurses Blog Weblog to discuss issues related to professional experiences. This is only one example of nurses using this new Internet option.
http://medscapenursing.blogs.com/ |
Nursing Discussion Forums
http://nursing.buffalo.edu/mccartny/nursing_discussion_forums.html |
Sigma Theta Tau International E-Forums Free forums to post, search, discuss topics of concern to all nurses.
http://sttiportal.meisoft.com/forums/index.cfm?cfapp=3 |
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DATABASES AND INDEXES
Searches of these and other specialized databases are available from academic, hospital, and other libraries, including members of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), www.nnlm.gov. Nurses may access these databases via their library website or directly from the database producer. Also, contact your local health sciences library or closest Regional Medical Library (call 800/388-7657). For more information on access to the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, check the NLM website at www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html.
Always check your library before paying for journal articles online. Access via your library gateway may provide additional options for obtaining the full text of indexed content. Many libraries subscribe to packages of electronic journals so that they can provide desktop access to the best resources, even when not free via the Internet. Since full-text journal collections are marketed to libraries, not nurses, they are not listed here. Nurses may also obtain the full text of journal articles -- both print and online -- via professional memberships, personal subscriptions, and some websites. |
Core Nursing and Health Care Databases |
CINAHL® Database Produced by Cinahl Information Systems (CIS). Comprehensive coverage of the professional literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines, and selective coverage of biomedicine, consumer health, alternative medicine, and health sciences librarianship. Coverage from 1982 to date includes >1,000,000 records from >1,800 indexed journals, plus books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, and educational software, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and standards of professional practice. Provides comprehensive coverage of the English-language nursing and allied health journal literature, with selected coverage of foreign nursing literature. Includes a cited references field for >900 active journals from 1994 forward. Full text is included for selected research instruments, 73 journals, critical paths, and CIS-created documents such as legal case records and drug records, providing >25,000 full-text documents. Subject access is available via the CINAHL Subject Heading List. Available in libraries and via the Internet, including the CINAHLdirect® service and various vendors. EBSCO, Ovid, and ProQuest also offer CINAHL with full-text journal collections.
www.cinahl.com |
CINAHL Plus™ Database Includes everything in CINAHL, adding coverage of indexed journals back to 1951, with AJN and RN from 1937. Includes >140 additional journal titles and >360 research instrument records (compared to 106 in the basic version). Adds website indexing and many additional full-text resources, including more journals, continuing education modules, and point-of-care resources. Available from EBSCO Publishing, including a version with hundreds of additional full-text journals.
www.ebsco.com |
| Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature® Print counterpart of the CINAHL database; 1956 to present. Author and subject access to journals, books, dissertations, and other materials. Subscriptions include the CINAHL Subject Heading List. This list is also available separately. |
MEDLINE Produced by National Library of Medicine. Covers virtually every area in the broad field of biomedicine, including bioethics, health administration, toxicology, nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, medicine, psychiatry, medical engineering, and pathology, from >4,600 US and international journals, 1966 to date, including those selected for Hospital and Health Administration Index, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. Available via many online vendors, each with its own search interface, most with access to online full-text of selected journals. Free access to MEDLINE via the NLM Gateway (below) and PubMed.
www.pubmed.gov |
| NLM Gateway Access to multiple resources provided by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, LocatorPlus, MEDLINEplus, and many others noted at www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/gateway.html. See also http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd |
Related /Specialized Databases |
AgeLine Produced by American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Coverage 1978 to present. Social gerontology and the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. Includes journal citations as well as citations from books, book chapters, and reports. Free access.
www.aarp.org/research/ageline/ |
AIDSinfo US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) project providing information on HIV/AIDS clinical trials and treatment. Mission is to offer the latest federally approved information on clinical research, treatment, and prevention, and medical practice guidelines for consumers and health care providers. http://aidsinfo.nih.gov. Additional federal AIDS resources are described and linked for free searching at
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html |
BNIPlus (British Nursing Index) Includes >220 nursing/midwifery and health-related journals with strong UK coverage, 1987 to present. Available online and on CD-ROM. Published jointly by Bournemouth University, two NHS Trusts, and Royal College of Nursing.
www.bniplus.co.uk |
Buros Institute of Mental Measurement Includes Test Reviews Online, an index of descriptive information and critical reviews for >1,900 commercially available standardized educational, personality, aptitude, psychological, and related English-language tests published in the Mental Measurement Yearbooks. Also includes a test publisher index.
www.unl.edu/buros |
CHID (Combined Health Information Database) Produced by health-related agencies of the US government. Online access to hard-to-find materials, 1975 to present, including brochures, pamphlets, health education materials, health promotion and education programs, review papers, fact sheets. Updated quarterly. Free searching.
http://chid.nih.gov |
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Sponsored by Institute of Education Sciences of the US Department of Education. Bibliographic database includes >1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Free access to >107,000 full-text, nonjournal documents.
www.eric.ed.gov |
Educator's Reference Desk from Information Institute of Syracuse Access to lesson plans, websites, and other resources not included in ERIC.
www.eduref.org |
EMBASE, Excerpta Medica Database Produced by Elsevier Science Publishing. Includes citations and abstracts of biomedical and pharmaceutical literature from >6,500 international journals, 1974-present, many not covered in MEDLINE. Coverage of nursing journals is very limited. EMBASE.com adds citations from MEDLINE journals not in EMBASE, including nursing titles. Available in libraries or via commercial vendors.
www.embase.com |
Gale Group Health Reference Center -- Academic; Health & Wellness Resource Center Gale offers various databases, including these two, which index >700 health and medical journals, >600 in full text. Diverse range of sources includes consumer health magazines, professional journals, pamphlets, medical reference books, topical overviews, and referral information. Also included are health-related articles from >4,000 other business and general interest publications indexed by Gale. Available in academic, health science, and public libraries.
www.galegroup.com |
GPO Access Search US government databases individually or as a whole. Contains records of reports, studies, fact sheets, maps, handbooks, conference proceedings issued by all federal agencies, including Congress. Includes records of all Senate and House hearings on private and public bills and laws, as well as Code of Federal Regulations. Searchable topic "Health and Safety" is useful for governmental regulations, legislation, publications, and resources.
www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html |
| HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, Pittsburgh, PA. Access to information on measurement instruments in the health sciences, psychological and social sciences, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, and others to identify instruments needed for research and practice. Available in libraries via commercial vendors. For information, contact bmdshapi[at]aol.com |
Health and Medicine in the News University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library (1997 to present). Index to health-related articles in Star Tribune (Minneapolis edition). When possible includes full citation to published journal literature or meeting abstract behind the story. Useful follow-up to information released via Associate Press and other national sources.
www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hmed |
HSTAT (Health Services Technology Assessment Text) Produced by the NLM Information Technology Branch of the Lister Hill Center. Access to full-text documents useful in health care decision making: clinical practice guidelines, quick reference guides, consumer brochures, evidence reports, technology assessments, and research protocols. Contents also available via NLM Gateway.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat |
| ISI Web of Knowledge Produced by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Includes Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), an international, multidisciplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral, and related sciences, including nursing. Also includes Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Available in libraries and via online vendors. www.isinet.com/products/citation/ |
LocatorPlus National Library of Medicine's online catalog, covering all catalogued titles, including books, serials, audiovisuals, and reports. Bibliographic data from NLM's previously published format-specific indexes have been merged into this file. Contents also available via the NLM Gateway.
http://locatorplus.gov |
MedlinePlus® A valuable National Library of Medicine resource for patient teaching information, drug and disease links, tutorials, and ready-reference materials. Includes health topics, drug information, medical encyclopedia, medical dictionary, health news, directories, interactive health tutorials, links to preformatted PubMed searches, and more.
http://medlineplus.gov |
NTIS Produced by National Technical Information Service of US Department of Commerce. Descriptive information about US government-sponsored research and development projects. Includes abstracts of unclassified, publicly available reports and analyses from 300 government agencies, their contractors, and grantees. Subjects covered include administration and management, health planning, medicine, and biology. Citations to >3 million documents, 1964-present.
www.ntis.gov |
PDQ (Physicians Data Query) Contains the latest information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, supportive care, and clinical trials. Part of Cancer.gov, produced by National Cancer Institute.
www.nci.nih.gov/cancer_information/pdq/ |
ProQuest Digital Dissertations Free access to most current two years of citations and abstracts in the full Dissertation Abstracts database, available in many libraries. Subject, title, and author access to >1.4 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Includes citations to US dissertations 1861-present. Abstracts for 1980-present.
wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations |
| PsycINFO Produced by American Psychological Association. Access to international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics. Records include citations to journal articles, dissertations, reports, book chapters, books, and other scholarly documents. Most include abstracts. Available in libraries or via APA Online. www.apa.org/psycinfo/ |
Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, launched its redesigned library on July 1, 2005. Features Registry of Nursing Research database and links to other nursing resources.
www.nursinglibrary.org |
Evidence-Based Practice Databases /Indexes /Resources
In addition to research published in journals, dissertations, and other scholarly sources, the following resources provide support for evidence-based practice (EBP). Critical abstracts from many of the following sources, as well as those published in many other journals, are indexed in the CINAHL database with publication types Journal Article, Abstract, and Commentary. |
ABSTRACTS AND COMMENTARIES
The following sources publish summaries of research, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines. As noted, many include critical commentaries. |
ACP Journal Club (1991-) Bimonthly journal from American College of Physicians, with commentaries. Online access comes with subscription and includes additional features.
www.acpjc.org |
Bandolier (1994-) Monthly independent evidence-based health care journal from the UK. Commentaries appear on website two to three months following print publication.
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html |
Evidence-Based Mental Health (1998-) Quarterly journal with commentaries.
http://ebmh.bmjjournals.com |
Evidence-Based Nursing (1998-) Quarterly journal with commentaries. Website includes current contents and selected free articles. Alerting service available to subscribers.
http://ebn.bmjjournals.com |
Evidence-Based Practice Monthly newsletter including critical reviews of recent research, from editors of Journal of Family Practice.
www.ebponline.net |
Medscape-Nursing Includes summaries of articles from the medical and nursing literature, plus full-text articles from Medscape journals such as Medscape Women's Health.
www.medscape.com/nurseshome |
RAPid and the RAP Library Database of peer-reviewed critical appraisals, from the Joanna Briggs Institute.
www.joannabriggs.edu.au/services/rapid.php |
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing (2004-) Quarterly journal from Sigma Theta Tau International. Also include original articles and systematic reviews.
www.nursingsociety.org/worldviews/index.html |
BEST PRACTICES /PRACTICE GUIDELINES
Best practices are available from many sources, including journals and other resources indexed in CINAHL and MEDLINE. CINAHL publication types to consider include Care Plan, Clinical Innovations, Critical Path, Practice Guidelines, Protocol and Standards. Also, consider Evidence-Based Care Sheets available in CINAHL Plus. "Practice Guideline" is also available as a MEDLINE publication type. See also nursing specialty organizations. |
AHRQ Evidence Based Practice Links to Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Evidence Reports.
www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm |
Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center New York Academy of Medicine links to clinical practice guidelines
www.ebmny.org/cpg.html |
JBI Best Practice Information Sheets From the Joanna Briggs Institute.
www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/best_practice.php |
National Guideline Clearinghouse From Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Department of Health and Human Services.
www.guideline.gov |
Nursing Best Practice Guidelines From the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO).
www.rnao.org/bestpractices/index.asp |
RCN Clinical Guidelines From the Royal College of Nursing.
www.rcn.org.uk/resources/guidelines.php |
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS |
The Cochrane Library Produced by the Cochrane Collaboration. Four full-text databases that cover the subject area of evidence-based medicine: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (DCSR), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews and Effectiveness (DARE), the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR), and the Cochrane Review Methodology Database (CRMD). Cochrane Reviews are also indexed in CINAHL, MEDLINE, and the TRIP database. Available from Update Software and other vendors.
www.cochrane.org |
International Journals of Evidence-based Health Care (formerly JBI Reports) From the Joanna Briggs Institute.
www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/home.php |
Health Technology Assessment (NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme)
www.ncchta.org |
| Online Journal of Clinical Innovations www.cinahl.com and included in CINAHL Plus database. |
| Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing (1993- 2003) Archival access via subscription to Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. |
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE DATABASES
These databases search multiple sources and organize results according to the evidence-based practice categories noted above. |
SUMsearch From Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Simultaneously searches PubMed MEDLINE, DARE, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC). Includes search filters for clinical queries, and extending systematic review searches to MEDLINE when DARE does not provide sufficient results.
http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu |
TRIP database (Turning Research Into Practice) Produced by TRIP Database Ltd. in the UK. Searches >75 websites with high quality medical information. Subscription database, with limited free access.
www.tripdatabase.com |
META-SITES FOR EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING PRACTICE
Numerous websites are devoted to evidence-based medicine and the overarching concept of evidence-based practice. These sites are a sampling of those focused on nursing and interdisciplinary EBP. |
Academic Center for Evidence-Based Nursing (ACE) University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Includes model for ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation, which demonstrates diffusion of innovation from research to practice.
www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/About.htm |
Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing, University of York
www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/centres/evidence/cebn.htm |
Joanna Briggs Institute
www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/home.php |
McGill University Health Centre Nursing Research
www.muhc-ebn.mcgill.ca |
Oncology Nursing Society Evidence-Based Practice Resource Area
http://onsopcontent.ons.org/toolkits/evidence/ |
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| DICTIONARIES |
| Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (30th ed.). (2003). Philadelphia: Saunders. |
Medi-Lexicon International A dictionary of >200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and health care acronyms and abbreviations, plus, medical news and searches for medical, pharmaceutical, and health care professionals. A UK-based website with US information.
www.pharma-lexicon.com |
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary (2005). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary on MedlinePlus
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html |
| O'Toole, M. T. (Ed.). (2005). Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health (7th revised ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier Science Health Sciences Division. |
| Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing (5th ed.). (2005). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. |
Venes, D. (2004). Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (20th ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis. Also available for PDA.
http://info.med.yale.edu/library/nursing/pda/buy.html |
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| DIRECTORIES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS |
AJN Career Guide Supplement to the January issue of American Journal of Nursing. Includes Guide to Certification, State Nurses Associations list, and How to Get a License. This information also available in the Career section of Nursing Center website.
www.nursingcenter.com |
All Nursing Schools Searchable online directory for schools by location, degree, and/or subject area.
www.allnursingschools.com |
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Includes links to AACN member schools.
www.aacn.nche.edu |
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education Autonomous accrediting agency for nursing programs offering education at the baccalaureate level and above.
www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation/ |
GradSchools.com Nursing graduate school directory.
www.gradschools.com/listings/menus/nursing_menu.html |
HealthWeb List of academic institutions for nursing education programs in Canada, the United States, and abroad.
http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?categoryid=1724 |
| National League for Nursing. (2004). Official guide to graduate nursing programs (2nd ed.). Includes CD-ROM. Sudbury, MA: NLN Press/Jones and Bartlett. |
| National League for Nursing. (2005). State-Approved Schools of Nursing, LPN/LVN and State-Approved Schools of Nursing, RN. New York, NY. |
National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. (NLNAC). Recognized by the US Department of Education as national accrediting body for all types of nursing education programs. List of NLNAC-accredited programs, including weblinks for most, is available at:
www.nlnac.org |
Peterson's Nursing Programs. (2005). (11th ed.). Lawrenceville, NJ: Comprehensive guide to baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in the US and Canada. Online access to information about schools that advertise is offered at:
www.petersons.com |
US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Nursing Links to education and practice grant programs, scholarship and loan programs, data and reports.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/ |
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| DRUGS, TOXICOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH |
Drugs |
| AHFS Drug Information. (2005). Bethesda, MD: American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. |
DRUG-REAX® System Produced by Thomson Micromedex. Provides information on interacting ingredients: drug-drug, drug-food, drug-disease, drug-ethanol, drug-tobacco, drug-alternative medicine, allergic reactions; also includes drug-laboratory assay interactions. Available for PDA and Internet.
www.micromedex.com/products/drugreax/ |
| Gahart, B. L. (2005). Intravenous Medications: A handbook for nurses and other allied health personnel (21st ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby. |
| Henke, G. (2003.). Med-math: Dosage Calculation, Preparation, and Administration (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. Softbound with CD-ROM. |
| MedMaster™ Produced by American Society of Health System Pharmacists, this database is based on ASHP's Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information, which includes information on >700 generic and brand name medications. Available at www.safemedication.com/About/medMaster.cfm and www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html, and through other organizations; also available for PDA: http://ashp.pdaorder.com/pdaorder/ |
| Medical Economics (2005). PDR: Physician's desk reference (59th ed.). Montvale, NJ. Also available bundled in electronic format; see PDR Electronic Library. |
| Medical Economics (2004). PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements (25th ed.). Montvale, NJ. Also available bundled in electronic format; see PDR Electronic Library. |
Mosby's Drug Consult 2005 (15th ed). St. Louis, MO: Mosby. Includes generic and brand names of drugs. Also available for PDA, as Internet subscription, on CD-ROM, and for online networks.
www.mosbysdrugconsult.com |
| PDR Electronic Library Available from Thomson Micromedex and pdr.net. Contains full text of the Physicians Desk Reference, PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements, and PDR for Ophthalmic Medicines and Side Effects. Also available on PDA. www.micromedex.com/products/pdr/ and www.pdrbookstore.com |
Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2005 (6th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Includes CD-ROM. Available for PDA
http://info.med.yale.edu/library/nursing/pda/buy.html |
| USP DI®. Advice for the Patient®. Produced by United States Pharmacopeial Convention. Contains information on brand name drugs; available as print publication and as database in many libraries and at www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html and for purchase at www.micromedex.com/products/uspdi/v2/ |
| USP Dl®. Drug Information for the Health Care Provider. (2005). (25th ed.). Rockville, MD: United States Pharmacopeial Convention. |
Toxicology, Environmental, and Occupational Health |
| Ellison, D. H. (2000). Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents. Boca Raton: CRC Press. |
Hazardous Substances Release/Health Effects Database (HaZDat) Produced by Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). An online database with information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and the effects of hazardous substances on humans. Updated continuously.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hazdat.html |
Haz-Map Produced by Jay Brown, MD, and made available to the public by the National Library of Medicine. A relational database of chemicals, jobs, and diseases.
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hazmap.html |
Household Products Database Produced by DeLima Associates and made available to the public by the National Library of Medicine. Includes information from brand labels and Material Safety Data Sheets on selected consumer products.
http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/about.html |
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG). Produced by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Latest printed edition, February 2004, NIOSH Pub. No. 97-140. Obtain as a zip file download, or for CD-ROM, or printed copies at
www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html |
POISINDEX® System Produced by Thomson Micromedex. A commercial database system with substance identification and treatment for exposures to chemical and toxic substances, including household products. Available electronically for Intranet and Internet.
www.micromedex.com/products/poisindex/ |
Reviews of PDA Applications in Toxicology and Environmental Health Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/pdareviews.html |
TOXLINE® (TOXicology information onLINE) Produced by National Library of Medicine. This database includes >3 million bibliographic references on the pharmacological, biochemical, physiological, environmental, and toxicological effects of chemical and drugs.
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxlinfs.html |
TOXNET® (TOXicology NETwork) A cluster of databases on toxicology, chemicals, and related substances produced or made available by the National Library of Medicine: HSDB® (Hazardous Substances Databank), IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), ITER (International Toxicology Estimates for Risk), GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology (mutagenicity), CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System), TOXLINE® (TOXicology information onLINE), DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology/Environmental Teratology Information Center), TRI (Toxic Release Inventory), and ChemIDplus (Chemical IDentification file of chemical synonyms and more).
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/tehipfs.html |
Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) Produced by National Library of Medicine, WISER is a PDA software tool designed to help first responders when they arrive at a hazardous material (Hazmat) incident, such as a chemical spill. Available for free download from:
http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov |
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) |
Internet Resources for MSDS Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc. Annotated bibliography of 100 free Internet sources of information on MSDS, including the approximate number of data sheets for listed organizations. Links to other information resources.
www.ilpi.com/msds#Internet |
MSDS-SEARCH (National MSDS Repository) Produced by MSDS-SEARCH, Inc. Access to >1 million MSDS. Links to manufacturers, databases, software vendors, government sources, and organizations.
www.msdssearch.com |
Office of Laboratory Security MSDS produced by Public Health Agency of Canada. MSDS as quick safety reference materials for personnel working in the life sciences on infectious micro-organisms.
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/msds-ftss/ |
Regulations |
| Federal Government Agencies Regulatory information and related links on drugs, toxicology, environmental and occupational health are available free on websites of US agencies: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)at www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html; Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/; and Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) at www.osha.gov |
RegsLink® System Produced by Thomson Micromedex. A commercial database system that provides state and federal regulatory information on the Internet. Includes information from Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, OHSA, EPA, and information from the 50 states.
www.micromedex.com/products/regslink/ |
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| GRANTS |
Directories and Databases |
| Annual Register of Grant Support, 2005: A Directory of Funding Sources (38th ed.). Medford, NJ: Information Today. |
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Database of all federal programs available to state and local governments (including District of Columbia); federally recognized Indian tribal governments; territories (and possessions) of the US; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.
www.cfda.gov |
Council on Foundations Membership organization of >2,000 grant-making foundations and giving programs worldwide.
www.cof.org |
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) Searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. Search for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques or identify specific projects and/or investigators. Home page serves as gateway to interactive searching of award information.
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov |
Federal Grants Opportunities This site gives grantors a means to post solicitations for grants. It also gives applicants a single site for obtaining these solicitations.
www.fedgrants.gov |
Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX) Free online information retrieval service of federal opportunities for education and research communities.
www.id.ucsb.edu/detche/library/fedix.html |
| Foundation Center Provides a wealth of information including listing of private, corporate, public, nonprofit, and community foundations. For a fee, Foundation Directory Online, with >80,000 listings, is available for searching. http://fdncenter.org. For individual grant-seeker access, go to http://fdncenter.org/for_individuals/. Foundation Center staff authored National Guide to Funding in Health (2003). |
Foundations.org Directory of charitable grant-makers. Browse the directory, choose a foundation, and search the organization's homepage. Fundraising software and products are also available.
www.foundations.org |
Grants for Individuals: Nursing Listing of nursing organizations that offer scholarships and grants to individuals, including MinorityNurse.Com Scholarship Listings.
www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3nursing.htm |
| Grants.gov Find and apply electronically for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies. This is single access point for >900 grant programs offered by 26 federal grant-making agencies. http://grants.gov. Includes roadmap to the grant-seeking process through five major areas: an introduction to HHS grants, funding opportunities, the application process, grants management, and other resources at www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/ |
Guidestar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations Searchable information on >850,000 Internal Revenue Service-recognized nonprofit organizations, enabling donors to research and compare charities and verify their legitimacy. Also links to 12 sites that offer assistance to nonprofit organizations seeking grant money and a tutorial on how to find grant information.
www.guidestar.org |
HRSA. Bureau of Health Professions: Nursing Nurse Education and Practice Grant Programs.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/ |
| Miner, J. T., & Miner, L. E., (Eds.) (2005). Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. |
| Miner, J. T., & Miner, L. E., (Eds.) (2005). Directory of Research Grants. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. |
NIH Grants and Funding Opportunities
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/ |
National Science Foundation Funding Opportunities
www.nsf.gov/funding/ |
Office of the Advancement of TeleHealth (OAT) Guide to currently funded OAT projects; includes detailed descriptions and contact information.
http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/grants.htm |
| Schlachter, G. A., & Webb, R. D. (2004). RSP Funding for Nursing Students and Nurses 2004-2006. Eldorado Hills, CA: Reference Service Press. |
US Department of Education Grants Information Detailed information on grant and other programs at the department, applications, regulations for administering grant programs, and information for new grant-seekers.
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/grants/grants.html |
US Small Business Administration (SBA) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support nonprofit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Detailed listing of government granting agencies as well as venture capital program.
www.sba.gov/financing/basics/grants.html |
Training, Handbooks, and Periodicals |
Assistance in Developing Proposals Excellent how-to guide that defines proposal structure and strategies in the proposal-writing process.
www.montclair.edu/pages/ORSP/strategy.htm |
| Bauer, D. G., (2003). The How To Grants Manual: Successful Grant Seeking Techniques for Obtaining public and Private Grants (5th ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. |
Chronicle of Philanthropy Featuring grant-related conferences, seminars, and workshops, journal also includes current issues, funding announcements, and a "Guide to Grants."
http://philanthropy.com |
COS Funding News Published weekly with a sampling of new and updated award information from the Community of Science Funding Opportunities,one of the most comprehensive sources of funding information available on the web.
http://fundingopps2.cos.com/news/ |
Federal Register Government's "daily newspaper" available from Superintendent of Documents.
www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html |
Foundation Center Virtual Classroom Online training (tools, demos, tutorials).
http://fdncenter.org/learn/classroom/index.jhtml |
| Geever, J. C. (2004). The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing (4th ed.). New York: Foundation Center. |
| Miner, J. T., & Miner, L. E., (Eds.) (2003). Proposal planning and writing (3rd ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. |
Philanthropy Journal Online This nonprofit publication provides news and numerous topics, such as Fundraising, Foundations, and Corporate Giving.
http://philanthropy-journal.org |
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| HISTORY OF NURSING |
Allen, M. (Peg). Nursing Information Access. Celebrating Nursing History: What to Keep. Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, Medical Library Association. Includes weeding guidelines and listing of classic works.
http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/reports/weeding.html |
American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). Nursing history primer, selected nursing history books, and a bibliography for historical methodology.
www.aahn.org/primer.html |
| Bullough, V. L., Church, O. M., & Stein, A. P. (Eds.). (1988). American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland. |
| Bullough, V. L., Sentz, L., & Stein, A. P. (Eds.). (1992). American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. II. New York: Garland. |
| Bullough, V. L., & Sentz, L. (Eds.). (2000). American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol III. New York: Springer Publishing. |
Nursing Inquiry. Special Issue, September 2004, 11(3), 129-208. This journal devotes one issue per year specifically to historical inquiry. The first annual history issue contains a selection of papers from the International History of Nursing Conference held in Oxford in September 2003. Table of contents online at:
www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showIssues&code=nin |
Nursing History Review: Official Journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing. New York: Springer Publishing. Annual. This journal contains recent historical research and book reviews. Browsable archived table of contents online at:
http://aahn.org/nhrtoc.html |
| Nursing Studies Index, 1900-1959: An Annotated Guide to Reported Studies, Research in Progress, Research Methods and Historical Materials, In Periodicals, Books, and Pamphlets Published in English (reprinted 1984). Edited by Virginia Henderson and associates at Yale University. Garland. Essential for researching nursing prior to 1960. |
| Thompson A. (1968). Bibliography of Nursing Literature, 1859-1960. London: Royal College of Nursing. |
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| STATISTICAL SOURCES |
Meta-Sites |
Schloman, B. (2001, August 31). Using Health Statistics: A Nightingale Legacy. Article/web page with annotated links to state, federal, and international sources, links to tools, and demographic data.
www.nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_6.htm |
| Many universities with schools of nursing have meta-sites for statistical resources on the Internet. For example: |
Columbia University: Data on the Internet Links to data providers, extractors, meta-sites for data, and data archives.
www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/outside_data/internet.html |
Emory University
www.healthlibrary.emory.edu |
University of California, San Diego: Data on the Net
http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/ |
University of Michigan: Statistical Resources on the Web
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html |
Government Sites |
Administration on Aging's Statistics on the Aging Population
www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/statistics.asp |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (formerly Agency for Health Care Policy and Research). www.ahrq.gov. Information on health insurance, use of health services, health care expenditures, health insurance of minorities. Data and surveys at
www.ahrq.gov/data/ |
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality's Health Care Cost and Utilization Project
www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/ |
Bureau of Labor Statistics Statistics on illnesses, injuries, and fatalities.
http://stats.bls.gov |
| Census Bureau (US) With gateway to Census 2000, maps, population data by subject, special topics including Statistical Abstract of the United States: The National Data Book. www.census.gov See State Data Center Program at www.census.gov/sdc/www/ and Fact Finder at http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(formerly Health Care Finance Agency/Administration) Offers links to data compendium (historic, current, and projected data on Medicare enrollment and Medicaid recipients, expenditures, and utilization. Detailed state-by-state and national data on use of and reimbursement for prescription drugs in Medicaid; no-cost downloads of Medicare datasets, often in PC-ready formats; data on health care costs in facilities that participate in Medicare; historical and projected health expenditures estimated by state; health care indicators/analysis of recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices in US health care system; links to additional statistics and data.
www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/ |
DataWeb Collaboration between US Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control. Census, economic, health, income, unemployment, population, labor, cancer, crime, transportation, family dynamics, and vital statistics data included.
www.thedataweb.org |
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics Publishes America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005 and America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, which that highlights selected indicators. Detailed data tables for all background measures and indicators are available.
www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/ |
| FedStats Gateway to statistics from >100 federal agencies. Link by topic, geography, agency at www.fedstats.gov. For statistics for federal programs and agencies specifically related to health see www.fedstats.gov/programs/health.html |
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Portal US county population trends, decennial census.
http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101b.shtml |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Links to Public Use Data Files (PUF), National Health Care Indicators and Expenditures, Clinical Practice Expense Program (CPEP), Resource-Based Practice Expenditure Data Files, actuarial tables, databases for Medicare and Medicaid information.
www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/ |
HHS Data Council Gateway to Data and Statistics US Department of Health and Human Services. Includes datafinder search tool and shortcuts to major HHS data systems, federal and state agency data sites, and state data resources.
www.hhs-stat.net |
National Center for Health Statistics Centers for Disease Control. Includes Health: US, annual publication with statistics on recent trends in health care. Data warehouse includes tabulated state data and international classification of diseases, 9th revision, clinical modification.
www.cdc.gov/nchs/Default.htm |
National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Summary
www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm |
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov |
US Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Nursing (2002, February 22). Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the Seventh National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, March 2000. A random survey done every four years containing salary, demographic, educational, role, and title information on 2.2 million registered nurses. Check site for pending release of 2004 report.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/rnsurvey/default.htm |
Organizational and International Sources |
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Institutional Data Systems and Research Center. Authoritative national databank reports current statistics on student enrollment, graduations, and faculty salaries in baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs; benchmarking data to provide deans with systematic, standardized information.
www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/instdata.htm |
American Statistical Association
www.amstat.org |
Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS) Association of individuals from a variety of organizations who are responsible for the development, compilation, and analysis of data on nurses and the settings in which they practice. ICONS promotes the generation and utilization of data, information, and research about nurses, nursing education, and the nursing workforce.
www.iconsdata.org |
| Kaiser Family Foundation Latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation and budgets. www.kff.org/statepolicy/index.cfm. Includes source for state health data at www.statehealthfacts.org |
National League for Nursing National Nursing Education Database™. The NLN is the only nursing organization that collects data on all nursing education programs in the US and its territories: doctorate, master's, baccalaureate, associate degree, diploma, and practical.
www.nln.org/research/index.htm |
National League for Nursing (2005). Nursing Data Review 2004. New York, NY. Current year and/or trend data about admissions, enrollments, graduations, ethnicity, gender, and tuition rates for all types of nursing education programs. Table of contents at:
www.nln.org/research/DataReview/nursingdatareview.htm |
Pan American Health Organization
www.paho.org |
PeriStats Developed by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center; free access to aggregated US, state, county, and city maternal and infant health data.
www.marchofdimes.com/peristats/ |
United Nations Population Information Network Data Includes statistics section of the UN Human Development Report Office (http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/), and resources for understanding these data. Includes helpful information about the human development index and other indices, links to background materials, data resources, and debates and discussions on human development statistics.
www.un.org/popin/functional/statistics.html |
WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) International health statistics from the World Health Organization Statistical Information System.
www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm |
Interactive Statistical Tools |
Interactive Statistical Calculation Web Pages Includes numerous biostatistical calculators.
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html |
Martindale's Calculators Online Center Includes extensive list of medical, health, and nutrition calculators.
www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html |
| Storydata.com Data analysis portal that allows the user interactivity with data reported in the news, much of which is health related.
www.storydata.com/index.html and www.storydata.com/Common/health.htm |
Tools for Using and Finding Statistical Resources |
Dan Melnick Research Inc. (2000). Health Statistics: Finding and Using Them. Self-study course.
www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/sld001.htm |
HyperStat. Online textbook. Introductory statistics textbook and online tutorial.
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html |
Introduction to Data Mining 101
www.statistics.com/cgi-bin/search/hyperseek.cgi |
NoodleTools Finding and using data.
www.noodletools.com/debbie/resources/math/stats.html |
Qual Page A collection of resources for qualitative researchers.
www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/ |
Suburban Library System Hands-On Workshop Using the Internet to find statistics.
www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/workshop/statnet.html |
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WRITERS' MANUALS AND GUIDES
See also GRANTS: Training, Handbooks, and Periodicals |
| American Medical Association. (1997). American Medical Association manual of style: A guide for authors and editors (9th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. |
| American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington DC: The Association. |
| Chicago Manual of Style. (2005). (15th ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
| Daly, J. M. (2000). Writer's Guide to Nursing Periodicals. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
| Fondiller, S. H. (1999). The Writer's Workbook: Health Professionals Guide to Getting Published (2nd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett. |
| Huth, E. J. (1999). Writing and Publishing in Medicine (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins. |
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). (2004). Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication.
www.icmje.org/icmje.pdf or www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html |
| Nurse Author & Editor. Published quarterly. www.nurseauthor.com/ONE/nasub.htm. Contact nurse editors directly at www.nurseauthor.com/ONE/naed.htm |
Raymond H. Mulford Library/Medical College of Ohio. Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences. Links to websites for >3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.
www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html |
