Journals
American Journal of Nursing
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing

Statistics
Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research
National Center for Health Statistics

Subject Guide to Online Reference Sources

Books and Print Resources- no limit on how many books you can check out at one time.  Our checkout period is four weeks.  Library cards are free at the Circulation Desk.

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To find books in the Library, search the BRCC Online Catalog Quick Book Search: Anywhere Subject Author Title         You can renew your books yourself, see what we say you have checked out, put holds on books that are currently checked out by someone else and see how much $ you owe us - all by clicking here and logging on with your Blackboard login/password.

Resources for locating books from other libraries.   WorldCat (Catalog of 88+ million titles owned by libraries in the United States). James Madison University (policy on BRCC students using JMU's library) University of Virginia Area Hospital Libraries: Augusta Health Claude Moore Health Sciences Library (UVA) Virginia Funkhouser Health Sciences Library (RMH) If you find a title BRCC does not own but you would like to use, try the Library's free Interlibrary Loan service. Call, come in, or e-mail us the title's information and we will call you when the book arrives.     Periodical Databases - this is where you can print articles from actual magazines, journals and newspapers.  For free.   See the easy instructions on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer. If you need peer-reviewed/refereed articles, be sure to click that box if the database you are using offers that option on their search screen.  Click here for a five minute video that explains all about peer reviewed articles. How to Search for Nursing Articles - little tutorial on how to find nursing articles through BRCC's databases. How to tell the difference between magazines and journals Alt HealthWatch -  focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts CINAHL Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Ebsco) ***Be sure and click the peer-reviewed box on the search screen.***  CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Consumer Health Complete (Salud en Espanol is the Spanish version of Consumer Health Complete) Health Source - Consumer Edition - the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.  Great for patients and families. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.   HubMed: PubMed Rewired - an alternative interface to PubMed. MEDLINE -  provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Open Science Directory offers access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.  Among the main open access collections in the Open Science Director are DOAJ, BioMed Central, HighWire Press, and PubMed Central, and special programs HINARI, AGORA and OARE.  INASP-PERI and eJDS will be added in the near future.  PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE. Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals Yourjournals@OVID - many nursing journals full-text online. Click here for a listing of nursing journals on the shelves in the BRCC Library - several are online now. freemedicaljournals.com - over 50 free medical journals.   You will need to register, but it's free. Subject Guide to Online Periodical Databases What to do if the article you want isn't full-text in the database where you found it: 1.  Look in the Houff Library Periodical Holdings listing. Maybe you can check out the magazine or journal that has your article in it. 2.  Not there?  Then copy and paste the JOURNAL name in the following links This will tell you if it's full-text in one of our 200+ databases: VIVA Online Journal Locator VCCS Online Journal Search 3.  Look in the databases that BRCC subscribes to on their own (not through VIVA or VCCS).  They are JSTOR, Wiley Interscience, and ProQuest Historical New York Times Newspaper. 4.  Try DOAJ:  Directory of Open Access Journals at http://www.doaj.org/.  This has full-text to nearly 91,000 articles. 5.  If your journal still isn't full-text in either of these two links, then copy the ARTICLE title and and paste it into a Google search to see if it's on the author's home page or in an online journal. 6.  Type the JOURNAL title into Google and see if the journal is free online. 7.  If that fails, then use the BRCC Library's free Interlibrary Loan service.  Print the article information and bring that into the library or copy and paste the article information into the E-Mail a Librarian link and we will call you when the article arrives.