LibGuides: Evidence-Based Practice: Unfiltered Information

Unfiltered Information

Evidence is not always available via filtered resources. Searching the research databases for research studies/articles (unfiltered information) may be required. It is possible to use specific search strategies in these research databases to achieve the highest possible level of evidence.

Resources for Unfiltered Information

Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Research based focus on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health are provided in this full-text database.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window BioMed Central (BMC), a subset of Springer Nature and one of the first and largest open access STEM publishers, provides access to over 300 peer-reviewed journals in a wide variety of fields, including but not limited to biology, medicine, chemistry, and environmental studies.
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Your key to nursing literature, CINAHL contains health journals, evidence-based care sheets, nursing dissertations, state newsletters, and continuing education modules. CINAHL also supports 17 allied health professions.
ClinicalKey for Nursing This link opens in a new window
ClinicalKey supports health professionals at the ‘point-of-care’. This database is constantly updated with easy to access/relevant/evidence based information. Improve clinical practice through more informed decisions
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window This collection of systematic reviews and protocols summarizes and interprets the results of medical research. It includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials Cochrane Clinical Answers *Note: If you are having trouble accessing the Cochrane Library please click Proxy Session Logout and then come back to this page and click the database title again. This should generate a fresh session to our remote access system and resolve access issues.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to health and wellness resources from journals and magazines, reference books, evidence based health reports, medical images and videos.
Consumer Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search for Gonzaga University to reach the search webpage.
Health Source-Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Consumer oriented health databases, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Scholarly full text academic journals focusing on the health sciences, nursing and medicine.
MedicLatina (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 140 peer-reviewed medical journals.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) largest bibliographic database, containing more than 25 million journal article citations in life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine and health. MEDLINE includes literature published from 1966 to present, with selected coverage prior to that period. MEDLINE records are indexed using NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Use this database to search MEDLINE using the EBSCO search interface.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window This PsycARTICLES database is now titled APA PsycARTICLES.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods, with full text content spanning from 1965 to present. (This database is a subset of the Academic Search Premier.)
PsycINFO (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window This PsycINFO database is now titled APA PsycINFO.
PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed is an openly searchable and highly comprehensive database of biomedical literature, providing citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text open access content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window PubMed Central is a free, open access archive for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles. PMC is searchable through the PubMed interface, and is produced and maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window A comprehensive, full-text database covering sociology and related disciplines, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work.
SPORTDiscus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a comprehensive database for sports and sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals dating back to 1985.

Other Resources for Unfiltered Information

PROSPERO
Repository of Systematic Review protocols.
Trip Database
Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence. You will need to register to be able to get to some full-text.