Subject Guides: Nursing: For Graduate Students

Your Librarian

Betsy Hopkins

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betsy_hopkins@byu.edu
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Quick Links

BYU College of Nursing
Interlibrary Loan
BYU Electronic Theses and Dissertations A searchable database of the electronic versions of works submitted to the BYU School of Graduate Studies.
BYU ScholarsArchive Submission Deposit your scholarly paper here to make it available to researchers worldwide.

Publishing Resources

Journal selection tools

Think Check Submit
This international initiative will help you identify trusted journals for your research.
Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)
Enter your title/abstract or keywords to JANE to identify possible journals to publish in.
Journal Guide
Journal Guide will suggest journals to publish in and provide aggregated data about those journals.

Journal directories

Ulrichsweb
Use Ulrichsweb to identify and learn about journals to publish in. Includes where the journal is indexed and whether it is peer reviewed.

Cabell's Directories This link opens in a new window
Look in Cabell's for more information about journals: acceptance rates, altmetrics, submission requirements, and more. Note that coverage for nursing journals is limited.

Journal metrics

For more information on metrics, please see the Research Metrics guide.

Journal Citation Reports
Use this database to find impact factors and other statistical measures for over 12,000 journals in science, social science, and art and humanities.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Search the "Sources" section of Scopus for CiteScore metrics.

Journals with potential issues

Jeffrey Beall, a now-retired academic librarian, used the term "predatory" to describe open access journals and publishers who charged authors fees to publish without offering high quality peer review and other editorial services. He also created a list of potential predatory journals. Though his list was controversial and taken down in 2017, others have continued his work.

Beall's List
This version is maintained by a postdoctoral researcher in Europe, and provides both the original Beall's list and an update.

Databases of Clinical Information

UpToDate An evidence-based, peer reviewed database of clinical information.
Micromedex Healthcare Series Provides a comprehensive, clinical knowledge base that will prepare you for success in clinical practice.
Lippincott Procedures Provides real-time access to step-by-step nursing procedures and skills in a variety of specialty settings.
VisualDx VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety.

Ebooks

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses All of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.

Style Manuals

AMA Manual of Style This link opens in a new window The AMA Manual of Style Online contains everything medical and scientific researchers, writers, and editors need to produce well-organized, clear, readable, and authoritative manuscripts.

Study Instruments

Search here to find questionnaires and other instruments for your research.

PsycTESTS PsycTESTS provides full-text access to thousands of psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. Permission and use information is included with each record.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCO) Provides information about unpublished behavioral tests and measurement instruments.
ETS Test Collection Database Tests from the Educational Testing Service. BYU has microfiche copies of some of these tests.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Mental Measurements Yearbook provides comprehensive guides to over 2,000 published testing instruments. Tests in Print provides information about commercially available tests that are currently in print in English.