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Top Databases for Nursing

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Full-text systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare by The Cochrane Collaboration

PubMed
Find biomedical & nursing articles; The primary medical database (brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine)
Scopus
Find biomedical, nursing & science articles; Excellent for finding citing articles (a.k.a. citation searching or ancestry searching)
Date Coverage: 1970-present; selected access back to 1823

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Google Scholar
Broad coverage of disciplines, easy to use, use when you need to search the full text of articles

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