Nursing Research Guide

BioMed Central is "an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open access journals."

"As the nation's health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health, safety, and security threats."

"ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world."

"healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from approximately 1,400 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet."

"Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research, providing expert, whole-person care to everyone who needs healing."

"MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. ... MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free."

The online version of The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Written in everyday language for patients and caregivers.

The online version of The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Written in language for doctors and medical students.

"The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe."

"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

"The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the premier organization representing the interests of the nation's 3.6 million registered nurses. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting a safe and ethical work environment, bolstering the health and wellness of nurses, and advocating on health care issues that affect nurses and the public. ANA is at the forefront of improving the quality of health care for all."

"ANIA Mission: To advance nursing informatics through education, research, and practice in all roles and settings."

"The American Society of Registered Nurses was founded in May 2003. As a professional association for registered nurses, it serves nurses from all 50 States and across the globe."

"The premier professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing."

"Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its 40,000 individual and 1,200 institutional members. NLN members represent nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education, health care organizations, and agencies."

"NSNA’s mission is to mentor students preparing for initial licensure as registered nurses, and to convey the standards, ethics, and skills that students will need as responsible and accountable leaders and members of the profession."

"To promote and protect the registered nurse and to advance the practice of nursing in order to assure a healthier Tennessee."

"CiteSeer^x is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science."

"Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information."

"GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government."

Image search from Google - either text-based or reverse image.

A news aggregator

"Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results."

Reverse image search - upload an image or provide a URL to an image's online location.

"USA.gov is an interagency product administered by USAGov (formerly the Federal Citizen Information Center), a division of the U.S. General Services Administration's Technology Transformation Service. Our mission is to create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice."

"Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods."
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