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I have to take a Health class to finish my associate in Health Science degree before starting my ADN, hopefully this next January. One of the assignments this semester is to find a study or research based article that pertains to information presented in the text (basically anything to do with maintaining wellness). We need to find the article and then write an abstract on it. I have been finding lots of articles about research so far, but not actual research articles written by the researcher/s themselves. It also has to be from a research magazine, medical journal, or professional journal. Any suggestions of where I could go online would be appreciated. Thanks,

You can get research articles online, but often you have to pay a fee. For example, JAMA & New England Journal of Medicine will let you see the abstract, but not the original article. Going to the library is probably the simplest way to get an article.

There are articles online if you hate the library or go to a college with a lousy library.

I found articles reprinted on nursing web sites. They are few and far between but I found some good ones. It is harder to evaluate journals online than having the hard copy in front of you.

Try doing a Medline search first online:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

and then check the journal articles at the library.

Just an idea. Good luck & happy hunting.

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Caroline

Check out the local hospitals library, they usually subscribe to several research journals.

They may also have Cinhal on their computer library, ask the librarian to help you.

Try the campus library...they should be able to help.

Go to JAMA get the information for which journal the article is in. Then go to your hospital library and make a copy for minimal price.

Also, ask the librarian to point you in the right direction. They absolutely (usually) love to help us find our way around the library!

Thanks for all your ideas. I will work on it some with my computer today and if I don't get anywhere, then tomorrow I will go to the library at school and see what I can find there. I have to go anyhow because the cd program I got from my chemistry teacher doesn't work so I have to go get another one during his office hours. Aren't first weeks of school so wonderful when everything just clicks? We still haven't even gotten our chemistry text books yet either and they are saying it might not be until the end of the month. Oh, well. I will let you all know what article I finally find and like I said "Thanks" for the help.

Specializes in ICU.

Other fee paying sites are Blackwell science and Elsivier (sp?). If you do a search of some of the professional nursing organisations they occasionally (very occasionally) post articles and small research.

After looking through various sites, I ended up at the AMA website. It had a link to the JAMA site. There, they had 2 different research articles that could be accessed for free. Of course, all the rest cost $12 a piece, but fortunately I only need one. The title of the article is "Prevalence of Conventional Risk Factors in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease". Now I just need to get approval from my teacher, write my abstract, and I will be done with that. Thanks again for your great ideas.

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