LITERATURE SEARCH
- Anders & Evans (2010) – Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar Literature Searches
http://services.aarc.org/source/downloaddocument/downloaddocs/05.10.0578.pdf - Conducting a Literature Search
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&ved=0CGAQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bgsu.edu%2
Fdownloads%2Fcas%2Ffile46845.ppt&ei=CdxiUpGAAZWt4AOBhYDYBg&usg=
AFQjCNEnuo6KvqG1fkq5VsiTLh94gtTY7A&bvm=bv.54934254,d.dmg - Doing Quality Literature Searches
http://library.medicine.yale.edu/services/crs/searching - Features of Google Scholar
http://www.google.ca/intl/en/scholar/about.html - Howland, Wright, Boughan, & Roberts (2009) – How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases
http://crl.acrl.org/content/70/3/227.full.pdf - University of San Francisco (n.d.) – Searching Google Scholar
http://www.usfca.edu/library/handouts/google_scholar/ - Younger (2010) – Using Google Scholar to conduct a literature search
http://rcnpublishing.com/doi/abs/10.7748/ns2010.07.24.45.40.c7906 - Using Google Scholar for Literature Search – The above links regarding the use of Google Scholar for literature search are provided for individuals who have limited or no access to databases. However, users are advised to use discretion in using Google Scholar, and make themselves aware of its limitations.
NURSING THEORISTS AND THEORIES
- Leininger, Madeleine
http://www.madeleine-leininger.com/en/ - Locsin, Rozanno – Technological competency as caring in nursing: a model for practice
http://nursing.fau.edu/uploads/docs/852/Locsin_Technological%20Competency%20Jerusalem%285%29.pdf - Meleis, Afaf – Transitions Theory
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=nrs - Moyra Allen, F. – the McGill Model of Nursing
http://www.mcgill.ca/nursing/about/model/ - Neuman, Betty – the Neuman Systems Model
http://www.neumansystemsmodel.org/ - Newman, Margaret – the theory of health as expanding consciousness
http://healthasexpandingconsciousness.org/home/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 - Nursing Theories
http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/ - Parse, Rosemarie Rizzo – Humanbecoming Theory
http://www.humanbecoming.org/rosemarie-rizzo-parse.php
http://www.humanbecoming.org/human-becoming.php
http://discoveryinternationalonline.com/ - Rogers, Martha E. – Science of Unitary Human Beings Theory
http://www.societyofrogerianscholars.org/biley.html - Roy, Callista
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/featured/theorist.html - Watson, Jean
http://watsoncaringscience.org/
These links are not exhaustive, and generally includes websites maintained by the theorist, their affiliating institution, or scholars that adhere to the theory. It does not include blogspots or other web links that have been developed as course, subject or individual projects.
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
- JOURNAL OF ART AND AESTHETICS IN NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES
http://nursing.fau.edu/index.php?main=1&nav=879 - BMC Nursing
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcnurs - Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/ - Elsevier Open Access Journals
http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals - International Journal of Qualitative Methods
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/index - Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/ - Online Journal of Nursing Informatics
http://www.ojni.org/ - The Qualitative Report
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/ - Wiley Open Access
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals.html
RESEARCH DESIGN, METHODOLOGIES, METHODS, AND PARADIGMS
- Bradley (n.d.) – Choosing Research Methodologies Appropriate To Your Research Focus
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/620/Bradley_Choosing.pdf?sequence=2 - Clark (2005) – Research Models and Methodologies
http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@commerce/documents/doc/uow012042.pdf - Dash (2005) – Module: Selection of the Research Paradigm and Methodology
http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/researchmethods/Modules/Selection_of_methodology/ - Grounded Theory Institute
http://www.groundedtheory.com/ - Holden & Lynch (n.d.) – Choosing the Appropriate Methodology: Understanding Research Philosophy
http://repository.wit.ie/1466/1/Choosing_the_Appropriate_Methodology_Understanding_Research_
Philosophy_%28RIKON_Group%29.pdf - Knoblauch (2005) – Focused Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/20 - Mackenzie & Snipe (2006) – Research dilemmas: Paradigms, methods and methodology
http://www.iier.org.au/iier16/mackenzie.html - National Institutes of Health (n.d.) – Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences
http://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/methodology/mixed_methods_research/section2.aspx - Phenomenology Online
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/ - Reeves, Kuper, & Hodges (2008) – Qualitative Research Methodologies: Ethnography
http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/resources/Reeves-Ethnography.pdf - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/ - Turner (2003) – Horizons revealed: From methodology to method
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/article/view/4528/3720 - Van Manen, Max
http://www.maxvanmanen.com/ - What is Research Design?
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/005847ch1.pdf - WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (2001) – Health Research Methodology: A Guide for Training in Research Methods. Second Edition
http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/pub_929061157X/en/index.html
RESEARCH ETHICS
- Research in the Social Sciences & Humanities
http://www.researchethics.ca/social-science-humanities.htm - TCPS 2—2nd edition of Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
http://www.ethics.gc.ca/eng/policy-politique/initiatives/tcps2-eptc2/Default/ - What is Ethics in Research & Why is it Important?
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis/
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
- Campbell Collaboration
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/what_is_a_systematic_review/ - Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (2009) – Systematic Reviews
https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/SysRev/!SSL!/WebHelp/TITLEPAGE.htm - Chenail & Weiss (n.d.) – Utilizing Qualitative Metasynthesis to Conduct Systematic Reviews of Primary Healthcare Research
http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/research08/pcrmsc/21st_2007/presentations/28%20Using%20
Qualitative%20Metasynthesis%20to%20Conduct%20Systematic%20Reviews%20of%20Primary%20Healthcare%20
Research%20Ron%20Chenail%20PhD%20Alyssa%20Weiss%20MSEd.pdf - Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
http://www.cochrane.org/training/cochrane-handbook - Dixon-Woods, Agarwal, Jones, Young, and Sutton (2004) – Integrative Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence
http://www.nice.org.uk/niceMedia/pdf/Integrative_approaches_evidence.pdf - Hemingway & Breton (2009) – What is a Systematic Review
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/syst-review.pdf - Joanna Briggs Institute
http://joannabriggs.org/public/jbi-public.html - Paterson, Duboulos, Chevrier, Ashe, King, & Moldoveanu (2009) – Conducting Qualitative Metasynthesis Research: Insights from a Metasynthesis Project
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/article/view/5100 - PRISMA
http://www.prisma-statement.org/ - Systematic Review Methods
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/methods.html
TRIANGULATION
- Bryman (n.d.) – Triangulation
http://www.referenceworld.com/sage/socialscience/triangulation.pdf - Fielding (2012) – Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs: Data Integration With New Research Technologies
http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/532394/ - Golafshani (2003) – Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-4/golafshani.pdf - Guion (2002/2013) – Triangulation: Establishing the Validity of Qualitative Studies
http://www.rayman-bacchus.net/uploads/documents/Triangulation.pdf - http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fy394
- Hussein (2009) – The Use of Triangulation in Social Sciences Research: Can Qualitative and Quantitative Methods be Combined?
http://jcsw.no/local/media/jcsw/docs/jcsw_issue_2009_1_8_article.pdf - Olsen (2004) -Triangulation in Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Can Really Be Mixed
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/Triangulation.pdf - Risjord, Moloney, & Dunbar (2001) – Methodological Triangulation in Nursing Research
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~mrisjor/documents/triangulation.pdf
If you are planning to publish your thesis or dissertation through Lambert Academic Press (LAP) Publishing
http://masseyblogs.ac.nz/library/2013/03/05/they-still-want-to-publish-your-thesis/