Evaluating nursing collections with the ICIRN's Essential Nursing Resources list.
This study examines libraries' nursing collections using the Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing's Essential Nursing Resources' (ENR) 26th edition. An inventory of the online collections of 235 libraries was assembled and compared to free, government, or National Library of Medicine resources and licensed resources from the ENR. The top five resources listed on library websites in descending order were MEDLINE, CINAHL, ERIC, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar. The availability of specialized resources varied, based on factors such as the level of nursing degree at each institution or the libraries' National Network of Libraries of Medicine membership statuses.
a Library of the Health Sciences Chicago , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois , USA.
Rebecca
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Raszewski
D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007994:Libraries, Nursing; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
Collection development; Essential Nursing Resources (ENR); National Library of Medicine resources; licensed databases; nursing collections