**note that you do not have to use all 3 search boxes and that you can usually add more search boxes.
When selecting a database to start with, consider the time frame as well as the coverage of your topic.
After your initial search in a database, you may want to narrow and/or limit your results. Many databases allow you to limit your results to scholarly or peer-reviewed journals and also to limit by date range, subject, publication type, etc.
In EBSCO databases (Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, ERIC, Medline (EBSCO), & PsycINFO) the options for narrowing are on the left side of the screen.
To try out limiting, look on the left side of the results page for a section titled Refine Results for ways to limit.
1.Scholarly (
To practice--Click Scholarly (peer reviewed) and then look at the total (above Refine your Results) to see how it changes. Note also that the limits you apply are listed under the results total and can be removed by clicking the X.
Citations and abstracts of scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and professional association news and information for thousands of publications. Most comprehensive nursing and allied health database. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
The premier full-text medical database. Contains scholarly articles on all health sciences topics.
UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical decision support database. The content is written, reviewed, and updated by expert physicians and provides specific recommendations for patient care.
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Provides citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 99 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2 000 periodicals in more than 25 languages. Can limit by publisher, publication year, publication status, publication type, document type, book type, peer reviewed, language, population group, age group, intended audience, methodology and classification codes.