Tacoma Community College Library: Radiologic Science, Research Project: Databases (Journal Articles)

Relevant databases with scholarly journals

Relevant Databases with Scholarly Journals

Radiologic Technology
TCC Library subscribes to this stand-alone journal. Requires that you are logged in through the TCC Portal. Problems accessing? Contact Melissa Adams, madams@tacomacc.edu.

"This award-winning bimonthly Journal covers all disciplines and specialties within medical imaging, including radiography, mammography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine imaging, sonography and cardiovascular-interventional radiography."
CINAHL with Full Text

(Ebsco) The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health with Full Text provides access to over 600 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
ScienceDirect
A full-text database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and 11,000 books, including reference works. (Tip: After searching for your topic, choose the "Refine by subscribed journals" feature on the results page to view the items you can access free of charge because you are a TCC student.)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
(EBSCO) Coverage of nursing and allied health topics. Includes peer-reviewed journals (where you will find research), and trade journals (which are focused more on practical day-to-day practice issues)
ProQuest Periodical Databases
ProQuest is a multi-disciplinary database holding scholarly journals, but also magazines and newspapers. If you would like to limit your searches to scholarly journals, I recommend checking the "peer-reviewed" limiter you will find under the search field.

PubMed Central Database

PubMed Central
Fee free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.

Searching these databases: Keep It Simple, Scholar

Search Tips: Keep it Simple

I often strongly recommend you begin any of your searches simply, avoiding the urge to set a bunch of limiters, and entering multiple search terms into the search engine.

I recommend that you first begin, simply, with your modality, either in abbreviation or spelled out (you can use OR as shown below to search both).
Then, If you are only interested in peer-reviewed works, check that box
and if you are only interested in articles that are published within a certain time frame, set the date limit.
That's it. See what is available generally.

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Scholarly/peer-reviewed journals

Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Journals

I encourage you to include, as at least one of your sources, a recent* research article from a scholarly/peer-reviewed journal. Why?

These articles are usually quite narrowly focused on some aspect of your modality, so this adds a level of depth to your "story"
Since this is recent research, your "story" will be up-to-date with the new questions in the field

*no more than 3 years old

Scholarly journals

Google Scholar

Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar can also be a handy source for scholarly, peer-reviewed works. Note: Not every article that appears in your results list will be available to you in full text form for free. Only those results that have a link to the right of the article are available. The image below shows where the PDF link would appear if is is accessible.

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Need Access?

If you find the perfect article via a Google Scholar search, but it is not available in full text, search for it, by article title, in your TCC Library databases, and remember, your Library faculty are here to help you with that kind of thing!