University of South Alabama Biomedical Library
Nursing Web Resources

This is a select list of Internet nursing resources.  Many more Internet resources, other than the ones listed, mention nursing.  However, the following resources were selected and evaluated by a librarian for their content, currency, authority, and organization.

 

USA Web Resources

USA Biomedical Library    http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/index.html
Links to OVID CINAHL & MEDLINE, electronic journals, medical databases and subject-oriented resources

 

USA University Library   http://library.southalabama.edu/
Links to ERIC, SouthCat (online catalog), and full-text databases such as InfoTrac, Ebsco and Lexis/Nexis

 

OVID CINAHL & MEDLINE databases (password required) usaovid.usouthal.edu

 

OVID Web Tutorial    http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/ref/ovid/index.html

 

USA Biomedical Links to Nursing Resources   southmed.usouthal.edu/library/specialt/index.html

 

Nursing Web Sites

About.com   nursing.about.com Articles and links to resources, hot topics, and an e-mail newsletter of current nursing topics organized and updated by a RN

 

CINAHL's Nursing Sources www.cinahl.com/csources/csources.htm Lists nursing sources on the Web with a brief description of each through this commercial site.

 

Cool Nursing Site of the Week www.odyssee.net/~fnord/nurselink.html
Sign-up to be notified by e-mail each week when a new nursing site is posted

 

HealthFinder (Consumer Health)   www.healthfinder.gov Provides links to government health agencies and organizations

 

Intelihealth - Home to Johns Hopkins health info  www.intelihealth.com
Provides consumer health information and topics

 

Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center   www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Nursing.html
Links to online nursing journals, nursing Web sites, dictionaries, and miscellaneous resources

 

National Library of Medicine   www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html
Links to MEDLINE and other NLM databases as well as consumer health information and online pamphlets

 

NursingWorld - American Nurses Association   www.nursingworld.org

 

Statistical Resources on the Web - Health   www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/sthealth.html
Provides into and links to health statistics on the Web created by the University of Michigan's Documents Center

 

Transcultural & Multicultural Health Links  http://www.iun.edu/~libemb/trannurs/trannurs.htm

 

Worldwide Nurse - Internet Nursing Index   http://www.wwnurse.com

 

Yahoo - Health/Nursing    www.yahoo.com/Health/Nursing/
Lists of select nursing sites

 
Nursing Electronic Journals

Journals@OVID - Full text articles available through OVID, including journals indexed in CINAHL.
usaovid.usouthal.edu

 

Lippincott's Nursing Center    Current issue abstracts and full text back to 1996 are available from the following titles: American Journal of Nursing, MCN:  The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, Nursing Research, Journal of Nursing Administration, Nurse Educator, Computers in Nursing
www.nursingcenter.com/journals/

 

NurseWeek - New articles are added every Monday and Thursday
www.nurseweek.com

 

Nursing Standard Online - Select articles/abstracts
www.nursing-standard.co.uk

 

NursingNet - List of online nursing journals including some international titles
www.nursingnet.org/journals.htm

 

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing - Free, peer-reviewed online journal published jointly by the American Nurses Association and the Kent State University School of Nursing provides a forum to exchange opinions and information about topics that affect nursing practice, research and education.
www.nursingworld.org/ojin/

 

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics - Full text articles
milkman.cac.psu.edu/~dxm12/OJNI.html

 

RN Web - Full text articles with some illustrations
www.rnweb.com

 

USA Biomedical Electronic Journal Subscriptions - Restricted by campus IP address   southmed.usouthal.edu/library/epub.htm

 

Electronic Citation

APA - Electronic Reference Formats    www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

 

Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Info   http://library.smc.edu/research/estyles/html
Includes APA and MLA samples

 

Citing Internet & Other Electronic Resources  library.lib.binghamton.edu/search/citing.html
Includes sample citations and electronic style guides

 

Free E-mail
As a service, the Biomedical Library is pointing out free e-mail sites.  The library is not liable for these sites.  If there is a problem with your mail, contact the Web site, not the library.  There are many free e-mail services available on the Web.

Hotmail  - www.hotmail.com

 

Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.com/

 

Web address:     http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/ref/nurs.htm
Last Update:     5/01
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