• Home

• Module One:

  • Beginner's Research Guide

    • Searching Steps

    • Locating Books

    • Locating Article Citations

    • Finding Journals

    • Database Tutorials

• Module Two

  • Research Utilization and Evidence-Based Practice

    • publication types

    • search strategies

    • limit your search

    • specialized databases

    • evidence-based journals

    • clinical guidelines

    • web sites

• Module Three

  • Searching the Web

    • sites and meta sites

    • free vs. fee-based sites

    • search engines

    • web directories

    • the invisible web

    • consumer health info

    • evaluating the web

• Getting Help

Beginner's Research Guide

Searching the literature is a skill that nurses need for many reasons. Whether to answer a clinical question, to gather background information on a topic, to meet a grant deadline or write a research paper, nurses and nursing students need to understand how information is arranged before they can locate, evaluate, and apply the knowledge gained. Information may be found in:

• Books
• Scholarly journal articles
• Popular periodicals
• Government documents
• Dissertations
• Fee-based or free sites on the internet

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