With PQDT Open, you can read the full-text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Best databases for scholarly articles about nursing research. Accessible from within Forsyth Library with a TIGERNET ID. Not accessible from off-campus. For databases you can use from home, click the NCK Accessible Databases tab above.
Citations, abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles covering a wide range of science and health sciences topics. Quick search tutorial
Full-text subset of PubMed. PMC contains more than 6 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research (late 1700s to present). Content is added to the archive through journal and publisher program deposit, author manuscript deposit, and digitization projects.
(From within Forsyth Library Only)
Use the search box on the library's home page, selecting the "Books & More" tab. On the results page, limit to Books using the filters under "Filter My Results". If you only want E-books, also limit to "Full-Text Online". You can also search our e-book databases directly.
With PQDT Open, you can read the full-text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Before you start searching, it's helpful to brainstorm keywords relating to your research topic. You may need to do some background research on your research question before you can identify additional keywords.
For example, let's say your research question is: In the past decade, how has the flu shot impacted the number of flu cases among elderly patients in the United States.
The main concepts would be:
There are three main ways to brainstorm keywords based on key concepts:
Once you've brainstormed keywords for your research question, think about what operators you may use. Operators are a way of combining keywords to get the best results from your search.
AND |
Use AND when you want to find articles or other information that contains both/all keywords Ex: flu shot AND flu cases AND elderly patients |
OR |
Use OR when you want to find articles or other information that contains at least one of the keywords Ex: influenza vaccination OR flu shot |
"QuotationMarks" |
Put quotes around phrases when you want that phrase to be found in that exact order Ex: "influenza vaccination" |
This video discusses why searching with library database is more effective than searching the internet, covering the following topics:
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