The American Journal of Nursing
As of January 2020, LCC Library no longer subscribes to the American Journal of Nursing due to the high cost of this title. You can access older issues in our collection using this information.
AJN provides access to some articles on their website. Use the Advanced Search and designate "Open Access" to articles that are freely available.
Health and Medicine Databases at Lane
LCC Research Databases for Nursing (also available off-campus)
- CINAHL with Full Text
- Gale Nursing & Allied Health
- Nursing Reference Center
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic
- AltHealthWatch
Open Access Databases
These journals are scholarly, peer-reviewed research, just like journals in the LCC databases. The difference is that open access articles are paid for by the government, foundations, or advertisers. Many articles (but not all) are freely available to readers.
- PubMedCentral
- BioMed Central
- Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine
- Journals from the Centers for Disease Control
- Clinical Research Topics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Professional Nursing Blogs
How to use CINAHL
CINAHL (pronounced "SIN-all" - the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the premier nursing research database. Watch this short tutorial about searching CINAHL.
Not Finding What You Need?
PeaceHealth Library is a specialized medical library, offering scholarly journals, reference books, consumer health information, and Spanish language resources. To browse their journals, go to the PeaceHealth Electronic Journals page. If you find an article at PeaceHealth that's not available at LCC, you'll need to go in person to the PeaceHealth Library in Springfield, or request the article via Interlibrary Loan.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar can help you find resources for academic research papers. Keep in mind that Google Scholar misses a lot of material that's only available by subscription. If you're asked to to pay for access to articles, look up the title of the journal where the article was published in the LCC Library Catalog to see if you have access to it for free.
If you have trouble accessing an article, ask a librarian to help!