The following databases can help you to identify original health-related qualitative research and research syntheses or to locate journal literature about conducting and reviewing qualitative research.
Contains more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals, with coverage of clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, dentistry, health services research, and more.
Provides authoritative coverage of the journal literature related to nursing and allied health. CINAHL also indexes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and more.
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes references and abstracts to journals, dissertations, book chapters and books.
Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
Large biomedical journal literature database with particulary stong coverage of the drug research and pharmacology literature. There is an approx. 60% overlap with MEDLINE.
Multi-disciplinary database covering medicine, science, the social sciences, and more. Coverage of nursing journals is relatively limited, however. Facilitates discovery through availability of cited and citing reference searching.
Subset of Google that covers journal articles, theses, books and abstracts. NOTE: It is not clear how much of the literature is included in Google Scholar.
The Duke University Libraries subscribe to databases in many subject domains, including the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, education, statistics, and more).
