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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.
- CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window 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.
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window 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.
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new window 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).
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window 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