To find journal articles in databases use these features of the tools to help you.

EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost databases, ProQuest

1. Mark full text

2. Mark scholarly/peer reviewed

3. Use a date range to find current articles, such as 5 years

PubMed Central PMC

1. All the articles are full text and scholarly/peer reviewed

2. Mark 5 years as a limiter

ProQuest: Nursing and Allied Health Source

To search just this part of ProQuest you need to select it. 

To access this part of ProQuest, follow these steps

1. Click all databases located under the aqua banner

2. Click databases in the gray banner

3. Click select all to deselect all

4. Choose ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source and any other health database on the list.

5. Choose use selected databases

Click on the link above, and then click on health, and you can search all of EBSCOhost's health modules at one time including: Academic Search Elite, Associates Programs Source, CINAHL with full text, Health Source Nursing and Academic Edition, and Master File Premier.

Enter your keywords in the search box.  

The results will display.  

Narrow the search results to find a great source by using the filters: 

Text Availability: Choose Free Full Text

Article Type: Choose anything but books and documents

Publication Date: Choose 1 year or 5 years

PLOS stands for the Public Library of Science, and this is a source of open access (free to all via the Internet) full text access on all areas of science and medicine.

The following journals make up the PLOS platform:

PLOS One: this online journal has full text original research articles in all areas of science

PLOS Biology

PLOS Medicine

PLOS Genetics

PLOS Pathogens