). Just go to ScienceDirect, and type the desired journal title in the space marked "Journal/Book title."Chemeketa subscribes to over 50 nursing journals. Some paper subscriptions have now been converted to electronic journals. Some journals are available in electronic format through EBSCOhost and are accessible in full text directly through CINAHL. Others are now on Science Direct or Ovid. A CINAHL record for an article from one of the U.S. nursing journals that is available on on one of these databases will link from CINAHL to Science Direct or Ovid.
Some paper journals (those not on 4-hour reserve) can be requested through the catalog and sent to your local public library (See below).
To make things a little easier, here are some lists:
Chemeketa subscribes to approximately 900 journals the Health Sciences Collection on ScienceDirect College Edition. Journals and articles that are available in full text are shown with a green icon (). Just go to ScienceDirect, and type the desired journal title in the space marked "Journal/Book title."
Chemeketa subscribes to approximately 20 nursing journals in electronic form on Ovid. You can access articles through CINAHL, or go directly to the journal from the list below. Please bear in mind that Ovid journals are licensed for one concurrent user per journal. Clicking the "logoff" link when you are done is important, as it frees the license for another user. (This link can be found in the upper right corner of the Ovid screen. 
) Off campus users will need their My Chemeketa user name and password.
The most important index to journals and other materials for nursing and allied health is CINAHL, the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL is accessed through EBSCOhost.
Click on the CINAHL link: CINAHL indexes over 1,200 nursing and allied health periodicals. To access new articles not yet included in the CINAHL database, use Pre-CINAHL by clicking on the "Choose Databases" tab at the top of the CINAHL screen. Pre-CINAHL has keyword searching only.
If you are accessing CINAHL from off-campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password.
The tutorials available here will guide you through the process of:
If you already have some familiarity with the database, and can access it and interpret results, you may wish to concentrate on just the CINAHL headings and on refining the search.
The search process described in the tutorials below below will work for anybody, but the instructions have been optimized for Chemeketa Community College nursing students, to supply the skills needed find appropriate articles that fit the criteria of the program.
The audiovisual Breeze tutorials in the list below are best suited to broadband connections. If you are using a dialup connection, you may wish to use the page How To Get Started Using CINAHL Effectively, where the same information is covered in a handout. Be sure to look at the "Frequently asked questions" section for important information.
Please contact the reference librarian at reference@chemeketa.edu or call (503)399-5231 for assistance.
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Update March 27, 2008
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