LibGuides: RADSCI 3200: Acquire Evidence

Recommended Databases

For this course, you will need to conduct searches of the literature on your topic. There are many options of where to search for such information.

The following are some recommended databases available through the Health Sciences Library to search for high quality, scholarly research articles:

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Provided by the US National Library of Medicine, PubMed is a freely available database containing more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature contains information published from 1982 to present on nursing and allied health fields such as dietetics, physical and occupational therapy, medical records, etc. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters, pamphlets, dissertations, audiovisuals and educational software, and virtually all publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.

Supplementary Databases

When searching for literature, you always want to consider your topic and select resources that will have the appropriate information.

In addition to the above databases, you may want to try some of the following supplementary databases depending on your topic:

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the international literature in psychology and material relevant to psychology in the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, psychiatry, and communications. Includes journals and dissertations from 1967 to the present.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Access the full-text of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all IEEE Standards.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Access the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and more through the Web of Science Core Collection. Covers multidisciplinary subjects, including the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and more than 12,000 journals. Also includes citations to conference proceedings.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the medical, scientific, technical, social sciences, and arts and humanities fields. Scopus covers nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, and more half of its content comes from outside the U.S. The database provides powerful citation analysis tools for articles, authors, institutions, and journal metrics.

All Health Sciences Databases
A listing of all health sciences databases.
All OSU Databases
A listing of all databases, health sciences or otherwise, available through OSU Libraries.

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