Review basic search tips
Now that you've chosen some keywords associated with your topic, we'll review some basic search tips.
These search tips and strategies can be applied to most resources you will search including:
- library databases and
- internet search tools
- CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature This link opens in a new windowArticle Indexes and Databases.
Key database in nursing and allied health. - PubMed (1946 - present) This link opens in a new windowArticle Indexes and Databases.
Premier database containing over 24 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine. Freely available and includes MEDLINE. This link goes to the version with UBC elink. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowInternet search tools
World's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
- UBC Library Summon searchLists of books, and more