University of South Alabama Biomedical Library

PATHFINDER: Nursing 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 etc.
http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/ovid.htm
Access to CINAHL and MEDLINE and other databases including CANCERLIT, HealthSTAR, and AMED among others.

 

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

 

Other Nursing Web Sites

About.com  
http://nursing.miningco.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.

 

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  
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/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
http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/ovid.htm
Full text articles available through OVID, including journals indexed in CINAHL.

 

Lippincott's Nursing Center   
www.nursingcenter.com/journals/
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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
www.nursingworld.org/ojin/
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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 


Electronic Citations

APA - Electronic Reference Formats   
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

 

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

 


Free E-Mail Services
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/pathfinders/nurs.htm
Last Update: 11/11/2002
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