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Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to scholarly journals on many medical disciplines. Provides indexing, abstracts and full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. Access Tip: Also available at mel.org
Contains the full-text of nursing and allied health journals providing reliable health information to nursing and allied health students, professionals, and researchers.
Different Types of Sources
Academic Journals
Written by experts for other experts; Scholarly
Very specialized and technical language
Includes complete bibliographies and works cited
Trade Publications
Written for those who work in a specific industry
Authors can be journalists, practitioners, professional organizations, or academics
News Sources
Reports and recounts recent events
Written by journalists and editors
Easy language to understand
Post, gazette, times
Magazines
Written by journalists
Common language; everybody can understand and read
Sources maybe cited within the article; no works cited page
Can be published daily, weekly, or monthly formats