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Accessing Journal Articles While Searching in a Database-

Many but not all Nursing journals can be accessed full-text online while searching in a database.
Click on the Full-Text link or .

Article LINKER provides:
  • Dates included - for full-text

Dates included Go to   Resources
04/01/1990 - 1 year ago   Journal Academic Search Premier

  • Article - Click on "Article" for the most direct link to full-text

Dates included Go to   Resources
01/01/1989 - 1 year ago  Article Journal Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Last calendar year - Current calendar year Article Journal Blackwell-Synergy

  • Journal - Click on "Journal" if the "Article" link is not available.

Dates included Go to   Resources
01/01/2001-present   Journal ScienceDirect Elsevier Science Web Editions

  • When full text is not available, click "Journal" to search the print collection. Verify that the UM-St. Louis Libraries own the volume/year you need. Record the location ( UMS BARNES) and the call number (LB1573 .R28) to locate the journal on the shelf in the Ward E. Barnes Library. (Additional instructions for Distance Students)

Dates included Go to   Resources
Click "Journal" to search the print collection   Journal UMSL Libraries Print Journals

  • InterLibrary Loan: When Article Linker gives you the message "Sorry, the UMSL Libraries do not own this journal" - click on the Submit an Interlibrary Loan Request link to order the article. Special Interlibrary Loan instructions for Distance Students.

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Searching for Full Text and Print Journal Articles Using Journal Citations
For more information about journal citations go to the Interpreting Citations Tutorial.

Sample Citation from the CINAHL database: McFarland HF. Case study. Initiation of dialysis in a patient with diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Nephrology Nursing Journal. 2005 Mar-Apr; 32(2): 219-20.

  1. On the UM-St. Louis Libraries homepage locate Databases
  2. Click on Locate Journal Titles.
  3. Enter the journal title in the box to the right of Title contains all words or click on an alphabet letter to browse by journal title.
Locate Journal Titles provides:
  • A date range for each database containing full text of the journal. Click on the database name (ie. Health Source: Nursing/Academic) for a direct link into the database.
  • Once you have linked to the database, search procedures may vary. Generally, seek the year, volume, and issue number for your citation.
Nephrology Nursing Journal
from 01/01/2003 to present in Journals@Ovid Nursing Collection 1
from 08/01/2001 to present in Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

  • A link to the UMSL Libraries' Print Journals -for journals not available full-text but available in print in one of the UM-St. Louis Libraries. Verify that the UM-St. Louis Libraries own the volume/year you need. Record the location (UMS BARNES) and the call number (LB 1050 .R42) to locate the journal on the shelf. (Additional instructions for Distance Students)
    Critical care nursing clinics of North America
         		Look up Article More full text options
    in UMSL Libraries Print Journals  
  • Journals article titles that are not available full text online or in the UM-St. Louis Libraries in print (Sorry, the UMSL Libraries do not own this journal)may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) by clicking on the Submit an Interlibrary Loan Request link . Special Interlibrary Loan instructions for Distance Students.

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Nursing Databases

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