ACCESS TO ARTICLES IN PUBLICATIONS SPECIALIZED IN NURSING: DATABASES FOR THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL

Abstract

The objective of this study is to describe the main bibliographical databases specialized in nursing and medicine serving as tool for the identification and retrieval of articles published in scientific journal of nursing. An increase of free database access as a consequence of both the process of globalization and the cooperation among Latin American countries is perceived. Also, increasingly more public institutions as well as non-profit organizations are making their databases freely available to the public. Furthermore, a growth of databases specialized in nursing is observed as well as the inclusion of a greater proportion of nursing-related articles in databases of international scope.