Hospital access to online journal articles, etc.

[llg, PhD, RN]

Does your hospital provide all staff members with online access to full text journal articles? If so, what platform/service are you using ... EBSCO? CINAHL? OVID? etc.

Does everyone have access to all of the resources or just people in certain positions?

Can you get most journal articles in full text or do you just get abstracts for most of them?

How happy are you with the services you are getting?

My hospital is looking at switching/upgrading its current access and I would like to know what others are doing.

Thanks,

llg

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

cinahl is part of ebsco.

your hospital may consider affiliating with a local (state or private) university to piggyback on their pubmed and ebsco access. they'd charge you a fee but it would be a lot cheaper than doing it on an article-by-article basis via ebsco et al.

[Corey Narry, MSN, RN, NP]

Since our medical center is part of a university campus that includes a nursing, medical, dental, and pharmacy school, all workstations in the hospital have access to the medical center's intranet which provides university-sponsored links to PubMed, STAT!Ref, Joanna Briggs Institute (an international database based in Australia), CINAHL with Full Text, The Cochrane Library, and PsychINFO.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

My organization provides access to a number of reference sites. We have just implemented EBSCO's Patient Education Resource Center into our EMR as well. Our staff prefer sites that compile EBP references by topic areas because it saves a ton of time but we also provide OVID for those who want to do it "old school" - LOL.

FYI, ANA members get an account to Nursing Consult as a benefit of membership.

[elkpark]

Since our medical center is part of a university campus that includes a nursing, medical, dental, and pharmacy school, all workstations in the hospital have access to the medical center's intranet which provides university-sponsored links to PubMed, STAT!Ref, Joanna Briggs Institute (an international database based in Australia), CINAHL with Full Text, The Cochrane Library, and PsychINFO.

Ditto ...

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I think I can access any article I could ever want to at work. We are partnered with a university. UpToDate has been a life saver for some of my homework assignments!