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Health Source: Nursing /Academic Edition (Ebsco) Quick Start Guide

Introduction

Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

Access

Access

Available from the library web site:

  • https://atu.ie/library 
  • Databases A-Z
  • Choose Health Source: Nursing /Academic Edition (EBSCO Host) from the list

You may need to enter your ATU user name and password:

Students: studentnumber@atu.ie and ATU Password 
 

Staff: firstname.lastname@atu.ie and ATU Password 

Searching

Searching

On the search screen, enter the term bone marrow transplant        
(The system automatically provides you with a series of similar terms from which you may choose.  To ignore the suggestions and retain the word(s) you entered, Click the cursor in a blank portion of the screen)

 

The Search Options allow you to use a number of different search modes.  For example:  
Boolean/Phrase                                 bone marrow transplant AND infection control
Find all my search terms                   bmt chronic granulomatous disease 
All fields                                             clinical trials psychological stress caregivers 
Smart text searching                                   
This allows you to type a sentence or more and the database will interpret it for you.  For example,  "Are there clinical trials with evidence of psychological stress on caregivers"  

Another option available when searching is to use a wild card *.  For example, searching infect* will retrieve results including infect, infection, infections, infectious, infected  etc.

Note: An important option is PDF Full Text.  This will limit the results of your search to those items which include a pdf of the full text of the article.

When you have entered your search terms and selected your options, Click Search
Your results are displayed. To ensure most recent items display at the top of the list, Click the drop down menu at Relevance at the top of the list and choose Date Newest

When viewing a list of articles a number of options are shown at the left of the screen to narrow your results:  For example:
●    Peer Reviewed will limit your results to material of an academic nature.
●    You can also limit your results by Publication Date.

To view an individual item, Click on the title or the HTML or PDF link.

You can also combine terms in the Basic Search box and apply filters.

Combining Search Terms

Combining Search Terms

Click Advanced Search just under the search box.  This brings you to a search screen which provides you with a series of boxes allowing you to create a more complex search.  For example, you could specify that all your search terms should appear in the titles of articles, or, you could search the subject headings assigned to articles.  (Note: Clicking Clear removes previous terms from the search boxes)

Example using Boolean operators on the left and specific Field filters on the right of the keyword search box, showing you still have further Refine options below Filters, Search options, Publications and Subjects. 

 

 

Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition has many other features which you can explore as you become more familiar with the database.  

Extra Help

Extra Help

You should use the various help features available in the databases.  Check out the ? icon at each stage of the search or click Help at the top of each screen.

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