This document provides resources for finding authoritative articles and information on nursing theorists. It lists databases like CINAHL, PubMed, and Sage Premier that contain nursing and medical journals. It also lists books and ebook collections available through the library catalog and databases. Finally, it recommends several websites dedicated to nursing theory that provide biographies of theorists and background information.

1. Nursing
Theorist
Resources
@
Warner
Memorial
Library.
Prepared
by
Mark
Puterbaugh
Info.
Svcs.
Librarian
mputerba@eastern.edu
610-­‐341-­‐1461
Where
can
I
find
authoritaEve
arEcles
and
informaEon?
• EBSCOhost
–
OmniFile
FullText
Select
This
full
text-­‐only
database
contains
a
wealth
of
essenEal
material
for
learning
and
research
across
the
disciplines,
including
topical
coverage
on
ethnic
studies,
women's
studies,
history,
applied
sciences,
art,
educaEon,
humaniEes,
law,
social
sciences
and
technology.
• PubMed
(h;p://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/)
PubMed
comprises
more
than
23
million
citaEons
for
biomedical
literature
from
MEDLINE,
life
science
journals,
and
online
books.
CitaEons
may
include
links
to
full-­‐text
content
from
PubMed
Central
and
publisher
web
sites.
• Sage
Premier
A
collecEon
of
over
240
of
the
highly
regarded
Sage
Journals,
covering
a
variety
of
disciplines.
• American
Journal
of
Medicine
(Free)
with
subscripEon.
• PubMed
Mobile
(Free)
• Read
by
QxMD
(Free)
Check
out
apps
for
both
iOS
and
Android
DATABASES
• EBSCOhost
–
Academic
Search
Elite
Academic
Search
Elite
contains
full
text
for
more
than
2,000
journals,
including
more
than
1,550
peer-­‐reviewed
Etles.
This
mulE-­‐disciplinary
database
covers
virtually
every
area
of
academic
study.
More
than
140
journals
have
PDF
images
back
to
1985.
• EBSCOhost
-­‐
CINAHL
This
database
is
a
rich
collecEon
of
full
text
for
nursing
&
allied
health
journals,
providing
full
text
for
more
than
610
journals
indexed
in
CINAHL®.
This
authoritaEve
file
contains
full
text
for
many
of
the
most
used
journals
in
the
CINAHL
index,
with
no
embargo.
Full-­‐text
coverage
dates
back
to
1981..
• EBSCOhost
–
Health
Source:
Nursing/Academic
EdiMon
This
database
provides
nearly
550
scholarly
full
text
journals
focusing
on
many
medical
disciplines.
• EBSCOhost
–
Historical
Abstracts
with
Full
Text
The
database
includes
book
citaEons,
dissertaEons
and
theses,
and
coverage
extends
to
related
disciplines
such
as
archeology,
anthropology
and
sociology.
• JSTOR
Covers
full-­‐text
from
hundreds
of
journals
in
ecology,
botany
and
the
biosciences.

2. • Online
Catalog
Search
for
books,
e-­‐books,
journal
Etles,
media
and
other
items
available
through
Eastern
University’s
Libraries.
• eBrary
Large
collecEon
of
academic
e-­‐books
searchable
and
readable
through
this
mulE-­‐disciplinary
database.
• EBSCO
eBooks
Search
and
view
the
full
text
of
academic
e-­‐books
in
EBSCOhost.
• JSTOR
Books
Excellent
collecEon
of
mulE-­‐disciplinary
Etle
from
academic
publisher.
•
NCBI
Bookshelf
(h;p://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books)
NaEonal
Center
for
Biotechnology
InformaEon
Bookshelf
provides
free
access
to
books
and
documents
in
life
science
and
healthcare.
Where
can
I
find
books?
What’s
On
the
Web?
• Nurses.info:
Nursing
Theories
A-­‐Z
(hdp://www.nurses.info/nursing_theory.htm)
CreaEon
of
an
Australian
nursing
agency
Swingshih
Nurses.
This
website
is
divided
into
to
secEons:
Nursing
Theory
and
Theory
Resources.
• Nursing
Theory
Link
Page
(hdp://www.clayton.edu/nursing/Nursing-­‐Theory)
Extensive
informaEonal
site
created
by
Dr.
Lisa
Eichelberger
author
of
Understanding
the
Work
of
the
Nursing
Theorist.
• Nursingtheory.org
(hdp://www.nursing-­‐theory.org/)
Commercial
site
published
by
nursing
recruiters
St.
David’s
Healthcare.
Excellent
site
for
gathering
background
informaEon.
•
Nursing
Theory
and
Theorists
(hdp://www.coxhealth.com/nursingtheoryandtheorists)
This
guide
contains
informaEon
about
books,
journals,
and
websites
that
provide
in-­‐depth
reviews
of
the
topic.
• UCLA
Elmer
Belt
Florence
NighMngale
CollecMon
(hdps://archive.org/details/f_nighEngale)
This
collecEon
of
books
by
and
about
Florence
NighEngale
was
a
gih
from
urologist
Elmer
Belt
to
UCLA's
Louise
M.
Darling
Biomedical
Library
in
1958.
The
gih
honored
School
of
Nursing
Dean
Lulu
Wolf
Hassenplug
for
her
successful
creaEon
of
the
school
in
1948
and
her
direcEon
of
it
through
its
first
ten
years
at
the
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles.
The
books
have
a
characterisEc
mid-­‐Victorian
appearance;
they
are
not
beauEful
either
in
typography
or
binding
but,
with
content
reflecEng
the
influence
of
Florence
NighEngale,
they
are
immensely
rich
in
human
value.
The
collecEon
includes
ediEons
of
NighEngale's
influenEal
"Notes
on
Nursing"
(1859
and
later)
and
her
other
publicaEons
as
well
as
biographies
and
tributes.
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