Need help on finding articles for your assignment or paper? Check out our online Finding Articles tutorial on our library website for a basic rundown on how to find quality articles.
Journals that don't adhere to normal editorial and peer-review standards are known as predatory journals. They usually don't appear in databases like CINAHL, but they may appear in open access journal directories and repositories like PubMed Central. Look for journals that only publish 1 to 3 years, or which claim to indexed in databases like CINAHL and Medline, but aren't. Find out more about predatory nursing journals here:
Edie, A. H., & Conklin, J. L. (2019). Avoiding predatory journals: Quick peer review processes too good to be true. Nursing Forum. https://doi.org/10.1111/nuf.12333
Oermann, M. H., Conklin, J. L., Nicoll, L. H., Chinn, P. L., Ashton, K. S., Edie, A. H., … Budinger, S. C. (2016). Study of predatory open access nursing journals. Journal Of Nursing Scholarship: An Official Publication Of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Of Nursing, 48(6), 624–632. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12248
Oermann, M. H., Ingles, T. M., Nicoll, L. H., Carter-Templeton, H., Woodward, A., Kidayi, P. L., ... & Amarasekara, S. (2019). Citations of articles in predatory nursing journals. Nursing Outlook.
Articles are a great way to learn about recent developments and new trends in research in the given subject. Scholarly articles are essentially researchers and subject experts sharing new pieces of knowledge with their peers around the world.
ACC Library provides a wide number of online resources which you can access through the library website, either in the A - Z List of Databases or jump straight to the section on databases for Health & Medicine. Recommended databases for research in Nursing are listed below. You can also search for articles using the library catalog search box below. If you want a list of our Health Science journals, you can find it directly linked below with the databases.
Looking for articles, especially scholarly articles? Try searching the e-resources below for your topic. No single resource will have all the articles on your topic so be sure to try more than one.