HAM-TMC Library's NurSearch

The HAM-TMC Library has put together a collection of the important resources in the field of Nursing including:

  1. CINAHL Plus with FullText
  2. PubMed
  3. Scopus
  4. Nursing E-Journals
  5. EbscoHost HealthSource:Nursing/Academic Edition
  6. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
  7. Nursing Websites
  8. Books@Ovid
  9. Library Catalog
  10. Digital Commons (theses & dissertations submitted by members of the TMC community)

NurSearch...

Queries selected resource(s) with your search term(s)

Retrieves results

Organizes results into Topic Clusters

About the "NurSearch" Discovery Tool

When you enter a term or topic in the “NurSearch” box, you search eight different resources at once-- resources HAM-TMC Library licenses for your use, along with PubMed and local resources like the library catalog. Click “advanced NurSearch” to view a list of what's being searched, select specific resources to search, or impose other limits on your search.

Results retrieval and display

Main Screen:
On the main results page, search hits display in the order in which they are returned to you. Some databases are typically faster than others. From the advanced screen, you can limit the number of seconds to wait for results - between 2 and 30 seconds. Do consider, though, that searching resources separately takes much longer than waiting a maximum of 30 seconds to retrieve results from up to ten at once.

Each result displayed in the list can be selected in new window or preview format. Opening a new window takes you to an item at its source location; preview is also interactive, but opens the item in a small, functioning window within the results list. From that window, where a citation is expanded to abstract level, you can decide whether to enter the resource for more targeted searching, follow through to full text, or continue reviewing your results list.

Clustered results- left-hand sidebar:

Search results are also presented in topic clusters/sub-clusters. The cluster headings are not based on controlled language or syntax the way Medline or CINAHL are, but on Velocity’s built-in algorithms for recognizing and categorizing similar items. If the clusters first presented seem unsatisfactory, click “remix” for an instant reorganization of the same results.

~HAM-TMC Library