Welcome
Welcome to the NS/CNU 602 library course guide! On this guide you will find resources specifically selected for your course. In addition, you will find links to library services and resources that will help you search databases, find articles, and complete your assignments.
Need help searching or finding an article? Reach out to the Medicine Liaison Librarian, Lauren Robinson, at laurene.robinson@uky.edu.
DATABASES
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) CompleteProvides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature available, plus the full text for nearly 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL
- ClinicalKeyA point-of-care clinical information service for physicians and other healthcare professionals. It provides access to a unique combination of medical reference books, medical journals, drug information, and practice guidelines. NOTE: ClinicalKey requires registration/login with a UKY email address to download PDFs of books and/or book chapters.
- PubMed (NLM)Provides free access to the National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s database of indexed citations, MEDLINE. Along with MEDLINE, PubMed also provides access to PubMedCentral, NCBI Bookshelf, OLDMEDLINE (Pre-1966 citations), and In-Process Citations.
OTHER RESOURCES
PRIMARY RESOURCES
Primary sources are original materials and/or information on which other research is based. It includes journal articles of original research, conference papers, dissertations, government documents, experiments & lab reports, photographs, field notes & observations, first-person accounts, conference proceedings, technical reports, and patents. Data sets that have been tabulated but not interpreted are also considered primary sources.
Historical Resources
Government Documents, Grey Literature, & Dissertations
SECONDARY RESOURCES
Secondary sources have analyzed, evaluated, interpreted, re-packaged, summarized, or reorganized information reported by researchers in the primary literature. Examples of secondary resources are review articles and journals, textbooks, compilation of data (e.g., CDC statistics), databases, and indexes.
Search for Articles
- PubMed (University of Kentucky)Provides abstracts to articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences. Includes biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Also includes links to articles available through UK Libraries' subscriptions.
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) CompleteProvides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature available, plus the full text for nearly 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL
- ScopusScopus is an abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature that contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Scopus is a citation index which helps in determining the impact of articles and journals by highlighting which titles are most cited within a field.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines.
Textbooks & Statistics
- AccessMedicineProvides access to current medical textbooks, images, drug information, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device.
- ClinicalKeyA point-of-care clinical information service for physicians and other healthcare professionals. It provides access to a unique combination of medical reference books, medical journals, drug information, and practice guidelines. NOTE: ClinicalKey requires registration/login with a UKY email address to download PDFs of books and/or book chapters.
REQUEST AN ARTICLE
FIND A BOOK OR JOURNAL
CONNECT FROM OFF CAMPUS
LEARN ABOUT RESOURCES
Selected Resources by Topic
Associate Director of Research Services
Medicine Liaison
Medical Center Library
MS 135 Willard Medical Education Building
Email: laurene.robinson@uky.edu