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- Click here to search Health Source Nursing Database
- Offers over 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines from the EBSCOhost group of databases. A medical dictionary is also included.
- See link on the list of databases page for complete title list of journals.
- Click the Subjects icon at the top of the page to search for Teenage Pregnancy.
- Journals can also be searched by using Journal Search icon at top of page.
- This database uses Library of Congress subject headings. Teenage Pregnancy is the actual Library of Congress subject heading for this topic.
EXERCISE:Click on the Subjects icon at the top of the page. Type in: Teenage Pregnancy and search. Scroll down to look at the subdivisions under this category. Which might be useful for nursing? Is there a specific subheading for nursing? |
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database
This database includes over 700 (580 full text) nursing and related publications, some include coverage from 1986-present. All of the articles are in HTML full-text format. Most offer full-image and Text+Graphics formats. There are some publishers, however, who have set time embargoes where the most recent full-text may be delayed 90 days to over one year.
There is no indexing used in this database, so only keyword searching is possible.
Look for articles on a topic using "string searching" techniques.
Type: pregnancy AND (teen* or adolescen*)
The asterisks provide "wildcard" searching; so, for example, teen, teens, teenage, teenager, etc. are all searched at the same time. You can also limit to scholarly journals by clicking on that folder link above the citations.
How to find nursing research articles
Many times an assignment will require you to search for topics in nursing research journals. When looking at a list of journals with research in the title you will find that there are very few. Another way of searching out these journals is by using the chart by Margaret Allen, which provides a list of quality nursing journals and the number and percentage of research articles. The chart is entitled Key Nursing Journals: Characteristics and Database Coverage (2001). This chart is available at:
IN GENERAL:
Take a moment to study the Help documentation on every screen.
- Recall that you are searching true databases, not search engines.
- Help documentation can save you considerable time by quickly familiarizing you with the search syntax and protocols of the database that you are searching.
- Pay attention to concepts such as truncation. In the ProQuest databases, for example, the following truncation is employed:
- * is used to replace many characters. For example, operat* = operation, operations, operational, operator, operated, etc.
- ? is used to replace one character. For example, educat?? = educated, educator
Be sure to use the most powerful search features available.
- In the ProQuest databases, for example, more search options are available: Basic, Advanced, Topics, and Publications. Most database services offer some sort of advanced searching option: use it. Natural language searching has the advantage of allowing you to search in the same manner that you would speak to someone about your information request; in other words, you can ignore database search syntax. The disadvantage is that the technology is such that results are not always relevant, precise, or accurate. However, try this option, too, if it is available.
Use Controlled (or Standardized) Language
- If possible, use valid subject headings in your search. This increases the chance for you to obtain articles that are generally about the subject that you are searching on, and to avoid so-called "false drops".
- Do a keyword search first, and then study the subject terms that have been assigned.
- You should be aware of the importance of many of these concepts in other databases. In other databases, though, the details may vary. For example, truncation may employ different wild card characters, etc.