Nursing & Allied Health Professions Library Guide

LCC Research Databases for Nursing (also available off-campus using your L-number)

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
• Gale Nursing & Allied Health
• Dynamic Health
• Nursing Reference Center 
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic
• AltHealthWatch 

Open Access Databases

These databases include scholarly, peer-reviewed research. Open access articles are paid for by government entities, 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 (Archive)
• Clinical Research Topics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Professional Nursing Blogs

• Lippincott Nursing Center Blog
• Nursing Times
• AJN Off the Charts
• Evidence-Based Nursing Blog

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!