Journal or Periodical Searching
Most Used Databases
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The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. - CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. - Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
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Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Includes updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
PowerPoint Database Search
- Searching with an EBSCO databaseWhile demonstrated on an EBSCO database, these searching techniques can be used on most others as well.
Search Tips
Searching a database can be frustrating even if you have done it before. Look over the resources linked below to explore new ways of searching databases. We also have databases you can browse if you don't feel ready to search, more on that in the Database tab!
Yavapai College shows the many features of a library database to save time and find better results for a research topic.
Here is a helpful InfoGraphic from our friends at University of Illinois Libraries:
