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Article Databases
For additional databases, visit the Online Resources page.
If you are off-campus, use your library number to access the online resources.
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CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) Articles and evidence-based care sheets for nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, alternative/complementary medicine, and consumer health. Includes complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association.
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ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Find articles from leading nursing and allied health journals and magazines. This database covers the fields of nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.
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PubMed Central A full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Access to engineering, physical science, health, and life science full-text articles. Peer reviewed. The green symbol next to the title indicates that the full-text is available.
2-Step Approach to Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles
STEP 1
Use LIMIT option while searching the databases to
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peer-reviewed publications
- refereed publications
STEP 2
Check if articles fit 4 or more of the following criteria
- long article with structured sections, abstract as well as results
- in-text citations shown appropriately
- contains a bibliography
- contains statistical data, and/or graphs and charts
- shows author affiliation and contact information
- no images or photographs, except when relevant to the study
- indicates the number of times the article has been cited (used) by other scholars
NOTE: No newspaper articles. No book reviews, editorials, letters to the editor and similar articles, even when obtained from scholarly and/or peer-reviewed publications.
- BAKER HANDOUT: Identifying & Locating Scholarly Information
- VIDEO: How to Read a Scholarly Article (Western University)
Questions? Contact Baker librarians:
E-mail: library@baker.edu -- Call: 888-854-1058