Spotlight on Circulation

Are you a nursing student or pre-med? Circulation might be a great place for you to do some research. Circulation is an American Heart Association-published journal covering clinical and laboratory research in the field of cardiovascular disease. This journal covers disciplines like cardiovascular medicine and surgery, epidemiology, radiology, and pathology. Circulation will be useful for cardiologists, internists, cardiovascular surgeons, and nurses. This is a peer-reviewed journal. You have access to the weekly journal dating back to 1950 until the present.

How to find articles in Circulation

Circulation is a journal Union subscribes to through OVID. To access and search for article in Circulation, you can use the link for Circulation on the Nursing Research Guide or go to the OVID Journals database.

 If you use the OVID Journals database, you will want to use the advanced search option. Type your search term(s) in the first box then use the plus sign to add another search box. In the second box, type the journal title, Circulation, and change the field drop-down to Journal Title. Then scan the results list to find relevant articles for your assignment.

If you use the direct link to Circulation, you can use the search box above the list of issues to complete a search. You will then look through the list of search results to find an article that is relevant to your assignment.

If you need help accessing Circulation, finding articles, or have general research questions, please schedule a Research Coach appointment and we would be happy to help.

Spotlight On CINAHL

Calling all nursing students and faculty: we have a great resource for you to use! CINAHL is a top database choice for nursing research. You can find articles from over 603 nursing and allied health journals including the publications from National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association. There are articles for nursing, biomedicine, alternative medicine, consumer health. You can even find health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of practice, and audiovisual materials.  

To access CINAHL, use the link on the Finding Articles page of the Nursing Research Guide, or find the link listed alphabetically on the Databases, E-books, and Media quick link on the library homepage.  

CINAHL is hosted through EBSCO, which means you can search in CINAHL and other EBSCO databases like Academic Search Complete simultaneously. Searching in both databases will broaden your search and make your searching more efficient. Use the Journal Subset field filter in your search and the term nursing to narrow your search. For help finding articles in nursing journals, visit the Limiting to Nursing Journals page on the Nursing Research Guide.  

If you need help while researching in CINAHL or any of our other databases, please schedule a research coach appointment or contact a librarian and we would be happy to help.