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Contact us if you need assistance: THSL-Nursing@umich.edu
If this is related to a course or assignment, please include those details in the message.
The Nursing Informationist Team:
- Jacqueline Freeman, MLIS
- Gurpreet Rana, MLIS
- Kate Saylor, MSI
- Sara Samuel, MSI
- Kathryn Vanderboll, MLIS
If you prefer, feel free to contact one of us individually.
Overview
Welcome to the Nursing Research Guide, the place to start your research with links to relevant library resources, including databases of journal articles, lists of eBooks and eJournals, and tips on finding evidence-based research.
Contact an Informationist if you need assistance with:
- Building search strategies for finding relevant journal literature, including tips on broadening or narrowing your search
- Citing your sources and managing your citations
- Finding other library resources for research and scholarship, teaching, and professional development
- Curriculum-integrated instruction
Main library links:
- U-M Library SearchFind additional U-M Library resources such as journals, databases, books, content experts, etc.
Resource Highlight
- BatesThis is a collection of videos featuring step-by-step, head-to-toe, and systems-based physical examination techniques, as well as interactive OSCE clinical reasoning modules. Also includes videos focusing on communication and interpersonal skills which are covered on the USMLE Step 1. Topics include active and attentive listening, disclosing serious news, rapport with LGBTQ adults, and more.
Library Open Workshops
Need help using library resources for research projects or class papers? Don't know which citation management tool to use? Looking for funding? Check out our new series of mini, virtual (Zoom) workshops (20-30 mins):
Upcoming sessions:
- Health Sciences Library Orientation
Learn how to access relevant health sciences resources for your assignments and research! (Recording) - Finding Full Text
Running into paywalls? Stuck tracking down dozens of pdfs for a literature review project? Learn how to efficiently find full text articles! (Recording) - Translating a PICO to Search Strategy
- Keyword Searching in PubMed
- Using Controlled Vocabulary: PubMed's MeSH
- Keyword Searching in CINAHL
- Using Controlled Vocabulary: CINAHL Subject Headings
- A gift to your future self: Saving searches, alerts, and search documentation
- Cited by and Reference Searching in Scopus
- Getting Started with EndNote
- Getting Started with Zotero
If you can't make it to a workshop, they will be recorded and posted on our "Library Resources for the Health Sciences" Canvas course .
Research Guides
- Systematic ReviewsResources and helpful guidance for conducting systematic and scoping reviews.
- Global HealthResources for exploring the many facets of global health.
- Grey LiteratureA guide to hard-to-find information, such as conference abstracts, clinical trials, or government reports.
- Finding Tests & Measurement InstrumentsResources, tips, & tricks for finding tests & measurement instruments in the health & social sciences.
- Health Sciences Mobile Devices ResourcesA list of mobile-friendly resources offered through Taubman Health Sciences Library, as well as information on how to access and install them.
- Research Data Management (Health Sciences)Tips for managing data and creating a data management/sharing plan.