Nursing: Searching Tips

- Database selection depends on your research question - nursing, medicine, psychology, sociology and/or education fields.  Some topics are best in OneSearch or Combined Databases; others with the expertise of discipline-specific databases.

- Find more search terms from the titles and subject headings of good articles.

- Use review articles to get an overview, help in choosing your research topic, and the articles in its reference list.

- Keep a research log; examples below.

- If you need to be more thorough, from several key articles on your topic, look at their reference list, search for other articles by the key authors, and look at articles that have cited them (many of these are linked in Google Scholar).