Veterinary Nursing: Journals & Databases

Essential books, journals and other key academic resources

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
An extensive multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities. It includes academic journals, magazines, trade journals and indexing and abstracts of publications including ebooks, reports and conference proceedings.
Cambridge University Press Journals (CUP) This link opens in a new window
An extensive multidisciplinary collection of online journals covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.
Oxford Academic Journals (OUP) This link opens in a new window
This resource consists of online journals from arts, social science, scientific, technical, medical, professional and humanities disciplines.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
This resource consists of online journals from arts, social science, scientific, technical, medical, professional and humanities disciplines.
SpringerLINK This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink provides access to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reference works and protocols from a wide range of academic disciplines. Includes Open Access content.

Key Databases

BSAVA Library This link opens in a new window
Searches BSAVA publications, including manuals, the Formulary, Companion magazine, and other resources, which together provide a comprehensive dataset of small animal clinical practice. Intended for veterinary professionals and students.

CAB Direct (CABI) This link opens in a new window
Extensive reference resource for the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. UCD subscribes to CAB Abstracts, Global Health and VetMed Resource.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
An authoritative source of full text and bibliographic information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare, dating back to 1937. Full text material includes nearly 800 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

Consultant
Diagnostic support system from Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine provides possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms. Also provides a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including 1) a general description, 2) species affected, 3) signs/symptoms and 4) a list of recent literature references.

InterNurse (MAG Online Library) This link opens in a new window
Internurse is the electronic archive of peer-reviewed nursing articles. Launched in 1998, it draws together articles from thirteen specialist journals published by MA Healthcare, which include the generalist clinical journal, British Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Wound Care.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library of important scholarly archived journals spanning many subject disciplines. IReL provides access to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I-VII, XI-XII; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences Collection.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
SAGE Research Methods Core Collection This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students from all disciplines with their research projects.
ScienceDirect Journals (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Includes online eBooks, reference works, handbooks, book series, journal titles and backfiles.
Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis is a leading publisher in all areas of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine sectors. IReL provides access to the SSH collection, while UCD Library funds the STM collection. Open Access titles are also available on the platform.

The Merck veterinary manual / editor, Cynthia M. Kahn
The single most comprehensive electronic reference for animal care information. Includes over 12,000 indexed topics with illustrations. Rapidly search by topic, species, specialty, disease, and keyword.

Web of Science (all databases) This link opens in a new window
Web of Science is a website that provides subscription-based access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
An extensive multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.

CINAHL Plus Nursing Database Tutorial

CINAHL: an introduction to searching the database (video link)