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Accessing health journals: Home

Introduction

This website has been created to help you find health journals to use in your assignment. Below is a reminder about planning your search and exploring your keywords related to your topic e.g. oral health / dental health. There are a couple of videos demonstrating how to access the Internurse database.

Finding Information

Finding good quality information to support your academic work takes time. Make sure you give yourself enough time to find and read the literature you need. This is a skill you will develop as you study. Here are some hints and tips to help you get started.

When you have a topic or question you need to research it is worthwhile spending a few minutes thinking about what you want.  First, break down your question into keywords and think about the type of information required; do you need key theories, facts or research? This will help to point you in the direction of where you need to search.

Here are some useful questions to consider:

  • What is my question? or What do I need information on?
    • e.g. Investigate the effect of chocolate on the health of young women.
  • What are the keywords I need to search?
    • e.g. Health / chocolate / young women
  • Are there any other keywords I might use?
    • e.g. Health / wellbeing / well-being / chocolate / snacks / cocoa / young women / young adult / female
  • What type of information do I need?
    • e.g. Academic sources that provide general information about adult health, dietary needs.

Using NELSON

You can use NELSON to search the Library’s books, e-books, e-journals, videos & more. Login with your University details at the top right hand side of the page so you can access the full-text material and save your search results.

If the item is available electronically, you’ll see a link to the full-text online. If the content is available in print, you’ll see a shelf-mark letting you know where to find the book on the shelf.

Searching the databases

Internurse is a key database for health information, everything is available in full text if you access the database via NELSON (following the steps in the video below).

Use the link below to access the Internurse database.

Conclusion

I hope you have found this website useful. If you have any questions about accessing resources and searching the databases, you can book a tutorial with an Academic Librarian.