Original post followed by responses 2-4.
From: "Theresa Trawick" <ttrawick_at_lbwcc.edu>
Would any of you share your findings related to the pros & cons of
nursing journal databases? We presently have ProQuest Nursing
Journals and I miss having the searching power that you get with other
vendors. Our academic group has gotten special pricing for CINAHL via
ProQuest, but I wonder if another vendor would be better.
Since I am starting a library for the college, it would be a great
timesaver for me if I could get your feedback rather than doing a
full-blown evaluation project.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Theresa C. Trawick
Admin. Coordinator, Library
Lurleen B. Wallace Community College,
MacArthur Campus
P.O. Drawer 910
Opp, Alabama 36467
334 493 5368
ttrawick_at_lbwcc.edu
http://www.lbwcc.edu
==#2==
FYI.
"EBSCO Publishing Completes Acquisition of Cinahl Information Systems"
EBSCO Publishing announced today that it has completed the acquisition
of CINAHL Information Systems from Glendale Adventist Medical Center,
in Glendale, California. (Dated: Oct. 2, 2003)
http://www.ebsco.com/home/whatsnew/cinahlaq.asp
==#3==
From: Thelma Hutchins <thutchins_at_mail.fscwv.edu>
At Fairmont State, we began a few years ago with the ProQuest product.
The nursing faculty despised it, and we found that ProQuest was
continually changing/dropping titles, so that one could not rely on
titles consistently.
We currently have three access points for nursing students/faculty:
CINAHL through EbscoHost and Health Source: Nursing Academic through
EbscoHost (with Open URL linking to lots of other databases within and
external to Ebsco) We also have Ovid's Essential Nursing Collection.
While expensive, our nursing faculty and students love these
collections and use them heavily. We have associate, BSN, and
Master's level courses.
Thelma Hutchins
==#4==
From: Martha Starck <StarckM_at_gwise1.matc.edu>
We have several medical databases that carry full text nursing
journals, but I haven't found any that are exclusively nursing
journals. Even the name ProQuest Nursing Journals is a misnomer
because it also includes other allied health journals - basically all
the journals from CINAHL that ProQuest can provide full text for. I
use all of the following equally, as each vendor seems to have rights
to certain journals but not others, and then there is some overlap
between the databases. We also use Serials Solutions to generate a
combined list of the journals on all of our databases, which tells us
we have access to120 full text nursing journals.
Gale Group/InfoTrac
Health and Wellness Resource Center
EBSCOhost
CINAHL w/ Headings
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
PROQUEST
Medical Library
ProQuest Nursing Journals
I have found that the Ebsco and ProQuest databases carry more British
and foreign journals, which our faculty don't want their students to
use, so the students just have to use some critical thinking to select
the best sources. The easiest way I have found to search for articles
in nursing journals is to add and nurs* to the subject, and check off
refereed or peer reviewed if that option is available.
We did try the ProQuest version of CINAHL several years ago but didn't
like it because it wasn't fully integrated into their list of
databases so you could search it simultaneously with other ProQuest
databases. I don't know if anything has changed or improved since. I
also found out recently that Ebsco bought out CINAHL, so I don't know
how this will affect what competing vendors will be allowed to carry.
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Received on Wed May 26 2004 - 07:51:00 EDT