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Databases

AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine is an integrated database that draws on more than 60 essential clinical and academic medical texts included, as well as a drug index, a differential diagnostic tool (called "Diagnosaurus"), and a library of image and video content.
Acland's Video Atlas
Acland's Video Atlas provides an accessible source of knowledge for individuals who have a need-to-know interest in human structure, including designers, artists, athletes, home-schoolers, and those who have concerns related to their own well being.
CINAHL Complete
This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. With CINAHL Complete users get fast and easy access to top nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets and quick lessons.
MEDLINE Ultimate

MEDLINE Ultimate is the largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index, providing medical professionals and researchers unparalleled access to 2,500 active full-text journals, including numerous top biomedical publications
Micromedex
Unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium
This database provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.
Nursing Reference Center Plus
Nursing Reference Center (NRC) is the premier evidence-based information resource designed specifically for nurses. With Nursing Reference Center, nurses can get answers to questions quickly, strengthen their nursing skills, and read full-text journal articles anytime, and anywhere.
Ovid Nursing Edge

Upon login screen, click OpenAthens | Institutional and select Dominican University to access materials. Ovid Nursing Edge provides your users with access, via Ovid Emcare, to millions of bibliographic records, some of the nursing field’s most lauded journals and eBooks, and additional bibliographic records from the Ovid MEDLINE nursing subset.
PubMed

PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
UptoDate
UpToDate® is the premier evidence-based clinical decision support resource, trusted worldwide by healthcare practitioners to help them make the right decisions at the point of care. First time users need to register with UptoDate after intitally logging on with their DU username/password.

Journals

Applied Nursing Research
Applied Nursing Research presents original, peer-reviewed research findings clearly and directly for clinical applications in all nursing specialties. Regular features include "Ask the Experts," research briefs, clinical methods, book reviews, news and announcements, and an editorial section. Applied Nursing Research covers such areas as pain management, patient education, discharge planning, nursing diagnosis, job stress in nursing, nursing influence on length of hospital stay, and nurse/physician collaboration.
Clinical Nursing Research
Clinical Nursing Research is a refereed journal publishing research articles that focus on nursing practice. It disseminates research findings of particular interest to practicing nurses, provides an international forum for discussion among clinical nurse researchers and by identifying practical applications of research, enhances practice. Manuscripts of interest to CNR are those that focus on assessment and/or measures of intervention effectiveness for application in practice settings. CNR does not publish research on nurses. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
International Journal of Nursing Studies
The International Journal of Nursing Studies (IJNS) provides a forum for original research and scholarship about health care delivery, organisation, management, workforce, policy and research methods relevant to nursing, midwifery and other health related professions. The IJNS aims to support evidence informed policy and practice by publishing research, systematic and other scholarly reviews and critical discussion.
Journal of Clinical Nursing
The Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific journal that seeks to promote the development and exchange of knowledge that is directly relevant to all spheres of nursing practice. The primary aim is to promote a high standard of clinically related scholarship which advances and supports the practice and discipline of nursing. (Some Open Access)
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
Overview
The leading nursing society that has brought you the Journal of Nursing Scholarship is pleased to bring you Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. Now publishing 6 issues per year, this peer-reviewed journal and top information resource from The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, uniquely bridges knowledge and application, taking a global approach in its presentation of research, policy and practice, education and management, and its link to action in real world settings.

BMC Nursing
BMC Nursing is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of evidence-based nursing care; nursing research methods; nursing service delivery, utilization, and evaluation; nursing administration and human resources.
Global Health Action
Global Health Action is an open access journal publishing peer-reviewed research on global health, engaging with key public health and policy issues. Global Health Action is published in cooperation with Umeå University, Sweden. Global Health Action aims to be a leading journal in the global health field, narrowing health information gaps and contributing to the implementation of policies and actions that lead to improved global health. The journal seeks to contribute a concrete, hands-on approach to addressing the global health challenges brought to the fore by the impact of globalization. The journal intends to generate new knowledge and evidence where it is lacking, as well as to bridge the gaps between existing knowledge and the implementation of relevant findings.
Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN)
The Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN) contributes to the advancement of evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare by disseminating high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and with potential to advance knowledge for practice, education, management or policy. All JAN papers are required to have a sound scientific, evidential, theoretical or philosophical base and to be critical, questioning and scholarly in approach. As an international journal, JAN promotes diversity of research and scholarship in terms of culture, paradigm and healthcare context. For JAN’s worldwide readership, authors are expected to make clear the wider international relevance of their work and to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural considerations and differences.
Journal of Transcultural Nursing
The aim of the journal is to serve as a forum for nurses and interprofessional teams to publish cutting edge research, theory, and evidence-based practice related to culture and healthcare. The scope of the journal is to disseminate peer-reviewed transcultural nursing science which serves as a foundation for promoting care that is congruent with the cultural care values of individuals, families, communities, and populations globally. Transcultural nursing science is the culture of caring behaviors that may be associated with age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, class, religion, social determinants of health, organizational norms, and public policy. Transcultural nurses promote health equity among those they serve.
Public Health Nursing
Its scope is the range of population-based concerns and interventions in which nurses are involved. The journal emphasizes scholarship on vulnerable populations. Articles include research studies, program evaluations, practice concepts, and educational features published with the goal of replication and development, and theory, education, methods, policy, and ethical and legal papers that stimulate discussion and public debate. Authors from all disciplines are invited to submit manuscripts relevant to public health nursing. Authors who have questions about the appropriateness of a manuscript for publication in this journal are encouraged to communicate with the Editors prior to submission. (Some Open Access)

Clinical Simulation in Nursing
Clinical Simulation in Nursing is an international, peer reviewed journal published online monthly. Clinical Simulation in Nursing is the official journal of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL) and reflects its mission to advance the science of healthcare simulation. (Some Open Access)
Journal of Nursing Education
Publishing original articles and new ideas for nurse educators in various types and levels of nursing programs for over 50 years.

The journal enhances the teaching-learning process, promotes curriculum development, and stimulates creative innovation and research in nursing education. Features include: Educational Innovations, Research Briefs, and Syllabus Selections.
Nurse Education Today
Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal in nurse education providing a forum for the publication of high-quality original research, review and debate in nursing, midwifery and interprofessional healthcare education. Published articles advance educational theory and pedagogy and support the evidence-based practice of educationalists worldwide. The aim of the journal is to stimulate and value critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic relevance for all stakeholders in healthcare education.
Nursing Education Perspectives
NEP publishes scholarly articles targeted to nurse faculty, deans and directors, students, and others with an interest in the science of nursing education. The NLN represents all types of nursing programs: diploma, LPN/LVN, associate degree, baccalaureate, master's, and doctorate education. Preference is given to large-scale national studies or, at a minimum, those that go beyond an exploratory nature. Human subjects review/ institutional review board approval is required.

Journal of Healthcare Leadership
The Journal of Healthcare Leadership is an international journal focusing on leadership for healthcare professions. The journal strives to provide up-to-date trends on theoretical and best practices in healthcare, and insights into leadership progress and effective solutions to improve patient care, to both current and future healthcare leaders. Senior and trainee doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals, medical students, healthcare managers and allied leaders are invited to contribute to this publication.
Journal of Nursing Administration
JONA™ is the authoritative source of information on developments and advances in patient care leadership. Content is geared to nurse executives, directors of nursing, and nurse managers in hospital, community health, and ambulatory care environments. Practical, innovative, and solution-oriented articles provide the tools and data needed to excel in executive practice in changing healthcare systems: leadership development; human, material, and financial resource management and relationships; systems, business, and financial strategies. All articles are peer-reviewed, selected and developed with the guidance of a distinguished group of editorial advisors.
Journal of Nursing Management
Journal of Nursing Management is an international forum which informs and advances the discipline of nursing management and leadership. The Journal encourages scholarly debate and critical analysis resulting in a rich source of evidence which underpins and illuminates the practice of management, innovation and leadership in nursing and health care. It publishes current issues and developments in practice in the form of original research and review articles.
Nursing Outlook
Nursing Outlook, a bimonthly journal, provides innovative ideas for nursing leaders through peer-reviewed articles and timely reports. Each issue examines current issues and trends in nursing practice, education, and research, offering progressive solutions to the challenges facing the profession. Nursing Outlook is the official journal of the American Academy of Nursing and the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science and supports their mission to improve health and achieve health equity by impacting policy through nursing leadership, innovation, and science.
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
Indexed in MEDLINE, Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that explores the multiple relationships between nursing and health policy. It serves as a major source of data-based study, policy analysis and discussion on timely, relevant policy issues for nurses in a broad variety of roles and settings, and for others who are interested in nursing-related policy issues