Guides: Searching for Scholarly Articles: Databases

Step 3. Search through the best database for your topic.

Look at your terms, these ought to give you some idea where you might look to retrieve relevant articles.

For our example, because the question is centered on nursing and education, look in the following databases.

CINAHL
This is the primary database nurses go to when they want to update their knowledge for their practice.
From 1982 to present. it is a comprehensive source of articles from nursing & allied health journals. More than 600,000 full-text articles are available.
Education Research Complete
This database covers education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.