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Welcome to the Houston Cole Library Guide pages! The Medicine,Health, and Nursing page gives you links to key resources to help you start your research.

Key Resources

CINAHL Complete
Most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL®Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.

An EBSCOhost database
Cochrane Library
Evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. It is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.

A John Wiley database.
Health & Medical Collection
Clinical, biomedical and health journals; dissertation research; and curriculum-based health videos supporting clinical care and education.

A ProQuest database | Part of ProQuest Central
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health.

An EBSCOhost database provided by the AVL
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
The complete evidence-based practice content set from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).

Download JBI Factsheet
Nursing & Allied Health Database
Nursing and allied health information
A ProQuest database

A ProQuest database | Part of ProQuest Central
Nursing Full Text Plus
Nursing, medicine.

An Ovid database
Nursing Video Collection
Streaming videos from Films On Demand concentrating on nursing and covering a range of topics from academic success skills, patient care, and ethics.

This collection is designed not only to help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams, but also to prepare them for long-term job success in an increasingly complex health care system.
SAGE Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods helps users create research projects and understand the methods behind them. It includes over 600 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the “Little Green Book” and “Little Blue Book” series. Journal articles and videos are also included.

This is a web-based research methods tool that covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method, and write up research. Sage Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, and is of potential use to researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and other research areas.