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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

To generate a shareable link to put in a syllabus or share with KU colleagues or students, follow these easy steps. 

Once you locate a resource to share, you will click the 3 dots to the right of the title. Then click "Share" from the drop-down.

A new box will open. Click "Create Link" at the bottom, and it will generate a shareable URL. You can then copy the URL and share it with other Kettering-affiliated users. 

About Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. Included are 137 full-text peer-reviewed scholarly journals and 934 indexed and abstracted journals.


To start searching the database, enter any combination of keywords, title, author, or subject in the search box on the database's homepage. 

On the results page, you will have a row of filters at the top that will allow you to narrow your results down. These include: full text, peer-review, publication date range, source type, and more. 

When you are ready to read the resource, you can click the button under the title info that says either "PDF Full Text," "Linked Full Text," or "Access Options" and then choose PDF. 

Once you click the button, a new page will load where you can read the document in your browser or use the icons at the top right of the page to download, print, or share the article. NOTE: If you clicked athe button that says "Linked Full Text" it may look different as it takes you to the site of the individual journal outside of this database.

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