Where to Find Nursing Research Articles
Use CINAHL Plus with Full Text. It is easy to limit your search, has many full-text articles and is nursing focused.
You can use Google or Google Scholar, but it will take more time to limit your search and find full text articles. Tips on searching Google.
In CINAHL Plus with Full Text...
Limit to Nursing Research
Use Advanced Search. Limit to Research Articles.
Use these terms if needed:
conceptual framework
nursing research
nursing theory
qualitative
quantitative
Also, maybe limit to peer reviewed.
Limit to Nursing Journals
Use the limit, Journal Subset and select Core Nursing or Nursing journals.
Limit to Recent Articles
Your professor wants you to find recent articles written in the past five years. Use the sliding date selector (left side of screen) to select article dates.
Limit to Articles Written by a Nurse
Look at the title/abstract or full article for author information/affiliation; there's a new limiter, any author a nurse, but it only works for the most recent articles in CINAHL.
Find Full-Text Articles
Click on the .pdf or .html links below the citations. OR, click on More Full Text Options.
No full Text?
Interlibrary Loan - give yourself up to 5 days to get the articles.
Where to find Systematic Reviews
Use your Salem State network/wireless network user name and password to log into library resources (such as CINAHL), periodicals, and ebooks from home.
Don't know your user name and password?
Do a search on the Salem State web page for Password Reset.