Nursing - Tools for Nurse Authors: Home

Sources for finding clinical evidence and for understanding the concepts of evidence- based practice in medicine.

"How to" links, tutorials, articles, and videos covering all aspects of the process of Evidence-Based Practice.

A brief overview of what constitutes authorship of a scholarly paper and what does not qualify as authorship.

CINAHL help: subject searching and limiting search results to articles likely to be written by nurses.

PubMed help: subject searching, other search features, and how to limit to nursing-related research.

"Accessing Nursing ETDs" pages compiled by the International Network for Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Nursing (INETDIN) - expand menu bar at the left

Includes tools for identifying journals by discipline, metric or title; information about open access publishing and retaining author rights, help with abbreviations, guidelines for manuscript submissions, and more.

A joint service of Nurse Author & Editor and the International Academy of Nursing Editors. Most entries include author guidelines or submission instructions.

Resources about the craft of scholarly publishing.

INANE is an international collaborative – a collective of nursing editors and publishers focused on meeting the practice, research and education needs of the nursing profession. Its primary mission is to promote best practices in publishing and high standards in the nursing literature.

Includes tools for identifying journals by discipline, metric or title; information about open access publishing and retaining author rights, help with abbreviations, guidelines for manuscript submissions, and more.

Selected resources for searching the grey literature.

From the Mulford Library, University of Toledo. "These pages provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to 'primary sources' - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles."

Resources about rights and responsibilities for both authors and users, including fair use.

Resources related to Research & Sponsored Programs, Research Compliance, and Technology Transfer.

Grant opportunities.

Includes funding from federal parent agency (NIH) and other programs.

Research Grants.

All discretionary grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies can be found on Grants.gov.

You do not have to register with Grants.gov to find grant opportunities. However, once you are ready to apply for a grant, you will need to Get Registered. This process takes 3-5 business days up to 4 weeks if you experience any difficulties.

NIH offers funding for many types of grants, contracts, and even programs that help repay loans for researchers...Includes Guide to Grants & Contracts.

Rural health and human services funding resources.

Morley Library has been designated as a Cooperating Collection by The Foundation Center to provide free access to print and electronic resources useful to staff, board members, volunteers, and friends of nonprofit organizations. Through this program, our library receives printed materials as well as electronic products to assist the grant seeking library patrons in Northeast Ohio. Some access is restricted to onsite users only, but useful open web links are also available on this page.

These downloadable spreadsheets list NINR-supported grants for fiscal years 2002-2006. For grant abstracts, as well as information on older NINR grants, please refer to the NIH RePORTER database (see below).

NIH. Status indicates whether recruiting, underway, or completed.