Nursing liturature databases
Here you can find a list providing links to the most important literature databases and nursing-relevant information.
Austrian libraries
Austrian libraries
The library at the University of Innsbruck provides a vast list of links to other Austrian libraries on its website.
http://www.uibk.ac.at/ulb/information/bibliotheken.html
Austrian Library Association
This association’s catalogue makes it possible to search in 56 catalogues of different libraries in one go.
http://www.obvsg.at/kataloge/verbundkataloge/
National Library of Austria
All Austrian publications, including academic papers as well as dissertations and diploma theses are collected and made accessible here. Besides current literature available at the National Library, the catalogue also contains some very old inventory of the library, which can be interesting e.g. for searching historic literature.
http://www.onb.ac.at
Austrian University Libraries:
Books and magazines can be searched online. Various electronic magazines and professional databases can be accessed at the respective university campus.
Library of the Vienna Medical University
This largest medical library of Austria contains many nursing-relevant books and some nursing-magazines in printed and electronic versions. Diese größte medizinische Bibliothek Österreichs enthält viele pflegerelevante Bücher und einige Pflegezeitschriften in gedruckter und elektronischer Form.
http://ub.meduniwien.ac.at/
UB Graz
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/ub
UB Innsbruck
http://www.uibk.ac.at/c108
UB Klagenfurt
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/ub
UB Linz
http://www.ubl.uni-linz.ac.at
UB Salzburg
http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at
UB Wien
http://ub.univie.ac.at
Other Austrian libraries
Social scientific library of the Workers Association (Arbeiterkammer) Vienna
The catalogue contains – amongst others – literature on employment law, condictions of employment, social policy …
http://wien.arbeiterkammer.at/bildung/bibliothek.htm
Vienna municipial libraries (Büchereien Wien)
Catalogue of Vienna’s municipial libraries
http://www.buechereien.wien.at
International libraries:
Karlsruhe virtual catalogue
This catalogue offers a search in international library catalogues.
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
German central library for medicine
http://www.zbmed.de
This is the largest medical library in Europe. Here you can find a large number of international nursing-magazines.
A medical information portal offers access to various health-care-relevant literature databases through one search.
http://www.medpilot.de
Library catalogue WE’G
This is the library catalogue of the educational center for health-care jobs SRK, Aarau (CH). The main focus of this library’s inventory is nursing, technical didactics nursing, nursing science and health-care science.
http://biblio.weg-edu.ch/webopac/(S(rjavwy552euvpi4501vcxj45))/Default.aspx
Professional databases:
Database WISE
Database for scientific publications concerning nercing (diploma theses, magister theses, bachelor theses, master theses ….). Besides general information on author, title and abstract this database also provides information on the location of the publication, how to get the publication as well as information on the price.
http://www.dip-home.de/wise/
PubMed
PubMed offers free access to MEDLINE, a medical database with more than 11 millions of literature quotes. This English-language database offers a huge number of literature references from nursing-magazines and publications from around the world.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Pubmed
DIMDI (Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information)
DIMDI provides access to many databases via ist website. Some are free, however, others are accessible with costs.
http://www.dimdi.de
CareLit
CareLit is a large German-language database for nursing and geriatric nursing as well as for hospital and old-age-home management. CarLit contains information on and references to scientific articles in German-speaking publications, accompanied by current reports, reports from congresses and company news, etc. WITH COSTS
http://www.carelit.de
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature):
Large English-language database with more than 2 million literature quotes regarding nursing and similar health-care sectors. CINAHL is accessible in some large university libraries.
http://www.ebscohost.com/cinahl/
Online-Bookshops:
Amazon
http://www.amazon.de
Buchhandlung Facultas
http://www.bookscout.at
Buchhandlung Maudrich
http://www.maudrich.com
Document delivery Service:
Subito
Subito is the delivery service of libraries for papers and books. http://www.subito-doc.de
Law:
RIS: Legal information system of the chancellor’s office
Access to Austrian acts of law, decrees, provisions, etc.
http://www.ris.bka.gv.at
Standards - Guidelines
Austrian standardization institute
By entering the keywords „quality management in nursing“ you can find information on the Austrian standard guidelines as regards nursing, which can also be obtained from this institution.
https://www.on-norm.at
Deutsches Netzwerk für Qualitätsentwicklung in der Pflege (DNQP)
The page of the „German network for quality development in nursing“ provides the national expert standards.
http://www.dnqp.de
Medical Knowledge Network of the University of Witten/Herdecke
This website provides guidelines for patients as well as for medical employees in full text.
http://www.evidence.de
National Guideline Clearinghouse (USA):
Resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (medical).
http://www.guideline.gov
actualised: 2010-02-16