Thursday, September 23, 2010

Calling all Nurses

The Ritz Library has just added electronic access to two new publications: AJN (American Journal of Nursing) and Nursing 2010. Coverage of AJN begins in 1996, Nursing coverage starts in 2001.

So what's the big deal? After all, we already have over 600 nursing journals available online. Well, AJN and Nursing are the two most important nursing titles out there. AJN, for example is both the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world, while Nursing is one of the best sources for core clinical skills. To find out what's going 0n in the nursing profession, these are "must reads".

So how do you get to these journals? Start by going to the Ritz Nursing Research Guide . In the middle of the page there's a list of databases. The "Core Nursing Journals" database contains AJN and Nursing. If you do a search in any of the other databases (such as CINAHL) and do not limit the results to full text, there will be links to this database for any AJN or Nursing articles.


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