Search Engines & Databases
Search Engines or Databases used for Identification of Article Summary
Numerous search engines and databases are currently used for the identification of the articles for the weekly summary. The databases and search engines that are frequently used include but not limited to, the following.
CINAHL Plus
This database will full text is frequently used, and it opens a pop-up window for sharing the database. It offers Journals in the cumulative index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, and it covers the articles in the areas such as nursing and allied health paper such as consumer and biomedical health journals. In this database, there are also publications associated with the National League for Nursing and American Nursing Association.
Cochrane Database
The site offers pop-up for sharing the URL for the articles from the databases. Cochrane Database offers a collection of databases in medicine as well as other healthcare-related fields. The article in this site has a database related to the meta-analysis and systemic reviews used for summarizing and interpreting the results obtained in different medical research.
Google Scholar
It opens up a pop-up window for sharing the URL for the database and this site, there is scholarly literature from different disciplines, and there are articles, books, theses, abstracts and court opinions originating from academic publishers.
PubMed
PubMed opens a pop-up window for sharing URL, and it has a citation for the articles concerning the biomedical life sciences and online books. MEDLINE is one of the subsets of PubMed that has nursing and biomedical articles.
WorldCat
WorldCat is for opening the pop-up window used for sharing URL for the database. The search engine WorldCat.org has articles, CD’s, videos, books, and dissertation from the OCLC Online Union Catalog. It also makes one of the largest online public access catalogues in the world.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
The search engine opens up a pop-up window for sharing URL for the database. There are various articles concern the medical areas, and it focuses on nursing, and other health topics such as Clinical Pharmacology and this gives update on the drug monographs, over-the-counter products, nutritional supplement and hard-to-find herbal as well as new drugs.
The keyword use depends on the topic of research, and this includes evidence-based practice, nursing advocacy, nursing quality improvement, integrating research, and so forth. I also consider a relevant synonym for the keywords and search with such words to find the articles.
Since there have been mainly the use of databases and search engines that are related to nursing, they have been effective in finding the article. Most of the articles are related to the nursing practice which the area of practice. During searching of articles from these search engines, the most relevant articles concerning the keywords used. Therefore, it makes it easy to find out the most relevant article on the top of the list of available articles. This makes it to be effective since it saves time to get those that are relevant to the topic of study, among others that are available. The disadvantage that is associated with these search engines is that there is no consideration of the timeframe in which an article was published. Therefore, there are possibilities of having the older article to be presented first without consideration. Since nursing clinical practice is a dynamic field with its information being updated frequently, having an old article my present article with irrelevant information, hence the most recent articles are used.