Nursing Resources  

The Scientific Publication Cycle helps us to understand how scientific knowledge is generated, communicated, and accessed.  For many of your assignments, peer-reviewed journal articles will be the only type of published information that is acceptable for use.  For other assignments, secondary resources including evidence summaries, systematic reviews, textbooks, or other secondary sources are acceptable.  



If your professor doesn't specify what types of information is acceptable, make sure to ask!  Also make sure to clarify if there are any limitations as to the years that you can use or any other criteria.

You can gain off-campus access to the electronic resources (also called databases or journal collections) by clicking on the name of the database you’d like to access, and then logging in using your Valpo e-mail username and password.

If you have problems with this service, contact IT at 464-5678.

Face-to-face help is always available at the Circulation Desk. Help is also available at the Reference Desk Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm.

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Welcome! This Subject Guide offers your quick, guided access to recommended resources for nursing students.  Click on a tab above to access that particular resource area.

Are you an Off-Campus/Distance Learning student? If so, read the box below this one to learn about our article document delivery service.

Looking for a Valpo DNP Evidence-Based Practice Project Report? 

Reports from 2011 projects are available within ValpoScholar, the University's institutional repository.  Click on the Theses, Honors Papers, and Project Reports link and then Evidence-Based Project Reports link.  Off-campus use will require you to enter your VU username and password for access. 

Reports from 2010 are listed within the library's catalog with full-text copies available on Reserve at the 2nd Floor Circulation Desk.  Reports can be checked out of the Christopher Center for 3 days at a time.  2010 authors include Sandria Lalasingh-Nixon, Dana J. Robinson, Margaret A. Lewandowski, Elizabeth L. Finley, Kristen L. Mauk, Patricia A. Nielsen, Toni Baldwin-Dufour, Roxanne Wolfram, and Suzanne E. Zentz.  These reports are being processed and will be included in ValpoScholar by end of Spring 2012.  

In addition to our interlibrary loan service, Valparaiso University Christopher Center Library Services provides free-of-charge article photocopying services for items we own for off-campus students and faculty who meet one of these criteria:

• For (non-law) students: You live 30 or more miles from Valparaiso and you do not come to campus to attend class
• For (non-law) faculty: You are on sabbatical and living at least 30 or more miles from Valparaiso
• For (non-law) faculty: You are teaching abroad at one of VU's International Study programs

1. Please complete the online Application Form www.valpo.edu/library/forms/docdelivery.html. We will not process any requests until we have the Application form on file and it has been approved. You will be notified when your application is approved.
2. Use ILLiad to place article requests. This is the same system used for Interlibrary Loan.
   - If you have not done so already, register for interlibrary loan -- ILLiad.

If you have any questions about document delivery, read more here or please contact us at 219-464-5363 or ill (at) valpo.edu .

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