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Article databases

The full EWU list of databases can be found at "Databases A-Z"      http://www.ewu.edu/x41144.xml.

The full WSU list of databases can be found at "Article Indexes/E-Journals"  http://www.systems.wsu.edu/griffin/indexes.htm

GENERAL SEARCH GUIDELINES

• Most databases have an advanced search which allows you to mix and match key words.

   
• The search screen will offer you a general keyword search first.  You may change this to search specific fields, i.e. article title, author, journal title
• The terms AND, OR and NOT (known as Boolian Operators) will be located on the left of the screen.  These are the terms you use to narrow or broaden your search.
  • AND will search only for articles with both terms in the search fields.
  • OR  will search for all articles with either term.
  • NOT or AND NOT will remove any articles with the term not desired.
• Nesting is an extension of Boolean logic.  You must always remember to "nest" or group synonymous or related terms linked by the or operator.  Normally you use parentheses to nest such terms; alternatively some databases allow you to simply type the terms you want to nest together -- joined by the or operator -- in the same search box.  Click here for a further explanation. 
• Most databases will allow you to narrow your search by selecting--Full Text articles only, Scholarly articles, Date limitations, as well as other limitors.
• Truncation is a handy way to cover multiple variations of a search term without having to type in each full-length term; you shorten your term to the first few relevant letters and then add the truncation character.  In most databases the truncation character is the asterisk (*) but in some cases it may be a question mark (?) or dollar sign ($) or some other character.  (Check the help section of a particular database to find out which character is used.)  Example:  adolescen* would find articles containing the terms "adolescence" or "adolescent" or "adolescents."  Click here for more.
•  Most databases require that you enclose a phrase in quotation marks if you want to search on it as a phrase.
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Medical Specific Databases

Pubmed [PubMed (NLM)]  [PubMed (WSU)] [PubMed EWU link]

• Published by the National Library of Medicine--Free to all at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
• Also published by OCLC First Search (Medline) [EWU link] [WSU link]
• Also published by Ebsco Host (Medline) [EWU link] [WSU link]
• 1966-current
• It is a citation database.  Links are made to full text, but most are fee based.
• Contains old medline--pre 1966, usually without abstracts

CINAHL [EWU link] [WSU link}(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

• Published by Ebsco
• Includes materials on nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, dentistry, speech and hearing
• Includes full text

Cochrane Library [EWU link] [WSU link]

• Published by Wiley Interscience
• Systematic reviews, clinical trials
• Evidence based health care 

Physical Therapy Journals (Ovid) [EWU link]

• Full text articles from a dozen physical therapy journals, such as Neurology and Spine.

• JAMA full text
• Archives Journals full text
• 1992-

AgeLine [WSU lilnk]

• WSU only
• Published by AARP

 Updated 11/10/09