Databases
- CINAHL Ultimate
CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing and allied health database. Your first choice for nursing research.
- PubMed
PubMed provides access to more than 23 million bibliographic citations from thousands of biomedical journals.
- Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Find who's been cited and who's citing each article.
- APA PsycInfo
PsycINFO is the American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations.It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health
COVID-19
Select COVID-19 related literature and data
- Rapid Reviews: COVID-19An open access, rapid-review journal will accelerate peer review of Covid-19-related research and deliver real-time, verified scientific information that policymakers and health leaders can use. MIT Press and UC Berkeley
- LitCovidA comprehensive curated literature collection regarding the 2019 novel Coronavirus from the National Library of Medicine.
- COVID-19 and Health DisparitiesA collection of articles, podcasts, webinars, and additional resources on health disparities and COVID-19. From Harvard Medical School.
Reference Sources
- DynaMed
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by clinicians for clinicians and health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. DynaMed provides clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics.
- Gale eBooks
A great place to begin your research, GVRL offers thousands of authoritative articles published in academic encyclopedias, and written by subject experts. Excellent for general information or background on a topic.
- Visible Body: Anatomy and Physiology
Anatomy & Physiology by Visible Body is a tool that uses animations to review physiology and anatomical function. 3D anatomical models can be rotated, zoomed, and dissected.
Books
- Ignacio: Library Catalog
The library catalog lets you search across the holdings of Gleeson Library and Zief Law Library, including books, videos, and other materials.
Incredibly Easy! Series and other study guides
The goal of the Made Incredibly Easy, Made Incredibly Quick! and Made Incredibly Visual! books is to break down challenging clinical concepts - the ones that are often difficult or confusing to grasp - and present them in a refreshingly original, engaging format that is easy to understand.
Browse our list of print and electronic books on nursing theories and models.
Browse our list of print and electronic books on nursing care plans
NCLEX Resources
Find a comprehensive collection of the library's NCLEX study guides and resources.
Statistical Data
- PolicyMap
Thousands of U.S. data indicators for demographic and socioeconomic analysis. PolicyMap data can be presented as maps, tables, charts and pre-built reports that can be incorporated into papers, presentations, blogs and websites. In addition, students can upload unlimited amounts of their own address-based data, and can share these maps with others.
- Data.census.gov
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. It replaces the American FactFinder website, which was retired in 2020.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
National Library of Medicine Drug Information Portal
Advanced and consumer information on 68,655 drugs and biologicals from the National Library of Medicine. Search by drug name, class, or category.
National Library of Medicine resource providing high quality information on marketed drugs, primarily label/package insert information.
Contains the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan -- well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.
Laws and Legislation
California Nursing Practice Act with Regulations and Related Statutes 2016
The Nursing Practice Act (NPA) is the body of California law that mandates the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) to set out the scope of practice and responsibilities for RNs.
- ProQuest Legislative Insight
Congress produces a variety of publications as a bill moves through the legislative process on its way to becoming a law. A compilation of these full text primary source publications produces a legislative history that is valuable to a wide variety of researchers. Legislative Insight offers a research citation page that not only links to the full text of the associated primary source publications, but allows the user to do a Search Within from that very page that searches the full text of all the associated publications with one-click. - California Legislative Information
Status, history, votes, analyses, etc., of California legislation. Includes California Code. - ProQuest Congressional
ProQuest Congressional is especially useful for performing legislative histories and locating Congressional documents. It is also very useful for tracking legislation and major public policy issues, locating recent Congressional documents and related material in full text, and learning more about Congress and the legislative process.
Refworks
- RefWorks
RefWorks allows users to create personal databases to manage, store, and share the information citations/references. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. See our RefWorks Guide for information about creating accounts, adding references, and using add-ons.
