OPEN ACCESS WEBSITES FOR NURSING
FOREIGN LITERATURE
ALLNURSES
https://allnurses.com/
allnurses is a Career Support Site for nurses and students, providing free ebooks and free access to allnurses magazine.
BMC Nursing
https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central or BMC Nursing is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of nursing research, training, education and practice.
Clinical Nursing Studies : International Peer-reviewed and Open Access Journal for the Clinical Nursing Specialists
http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/cns
Clinical Nursing Studies (PRINT ISSN 2324-7940, ONLINE ISSN 2324-7959) is a peer-reviewed and international nursing journal that focuses on the field of clinical nursing. CNS aims to enrich insight into clinical need and implications for nursing intervention and models of service delivery, and encourage the debate on all spheres of nursing and midwifery practice. Contributions are welcomed from other health professionals on issues that have a direct impact on nursing practice.
GOOGLE BOOKS
https://books.google.com/
Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project.
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
https://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
INTERNATIONAL AGING RESEARCH PORTFOLIO (IARP)
https://agingportfolio.org/
The International Aging Research Portfolio (IARP) is a system that organizes and allows users to browse research related to aging. It “incorporates databases of grants from multiple sources,” as well as MEDLINE publication abstracts.
PUBMED CENTRAL
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
SPRINGER OPEN
https://www.springeropen.com/
Since 2010, the SpringerOpen has offered free access to peer-reviewed works on areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. Access these authoritative literature through their website or visit https://www.springeropen.com/all-subjects to easily navigate through the available subject categories.
UNESCO
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/home
The UNESCO Digital Library is the repository of UNESCO's institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information), with more than 350,000 documents dating back to 1945. It includes the collections of the UNESCO Library and several documentation centres in UNESCO's Field Offices and Institutes, as well as the UNESCO Archives. The essential purpose of the UNESCO Digital Library is to share knowledge and to transmit it to future generations.
The collections include:
- UNESCO publications
- UNESCO-sponsored publications
- Speeches of the Director-General from 1970 to present
- Documents of UNESCO's Governing Bodies
- Publications of interest to UNESCO
WILEY OPEN ACCESS
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. To search for open-access resources per discipline, visit https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/browse-journals.html
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)’S GLOBAL INDEX MEDICUS
https://www.globalindexmedicus.net/
The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information.
LOCAL DATABASES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
http://www.doh.gov.ph/publications
In their website, the DOH compiles their annual, technical, and progress reports, policies, the Philippines ICD-10 Modification, survey publications, manuals, modules, and SOP guidelines, and other health-related works.
HERDIN PLUS
http://www.herdin.ph/
HERDIN plus, developed by the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, is an online portal that provides easy management and access to local health research and related information. It provides researchers full-text articles in PDF file format.
PHILIPPINE EBOOK HUB
https://ebookhub.ph/
Philippine eBook Hub is a website containing Filipiniana references (works that are printed in the Philippines, about the Philippines, and written by Filipinos) in PDF file format. These materials are accessible online for free and can be accessed through mobile phones or desktop computers, with various subjects such as health and medicine, anthropology, history, and languages.