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Identify two GCU Library scholarly databases that will help you find the best research articles to support your EBP proposal (PubMed and CINAHL). Discuss why these two databases are better than Google Scholar or a general Internet search. Please write minimum 1 paragraph each and give references for both

PubMed PubMed comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

CINAHL Complete The definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals with access to the top nursing and allied health journals. Includes full text for more than 1,300 journal titles with indexing for more than 5,000 journal titles. Covers more than 50 nursing specialties, speech language pathology, and nutrition. Also contains continuing education modules, evidence-based care sheets, and research instruments.

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Why PubMed is More Reliable
PubMed is a free engine which offers researchers and scholars with access to references and
abstracts on biomedical and life sciences topics primarily from the MEDLINE databases. The
advantages of using PubMed is that information is human-curated, rather than auto-indexed as in
the case of Google Scholar. This is to mean that data from PubMed is selected for inclusion by
actual humans basing their eligibility on scholarly standards by literature reviews. In addition,
PubMed is strictly associated with clinical and biomedical journals and data is entered uniformly
and in a structured manner: author, title, date, journal name. As a result, researchers get accurate
information which is up-to-date and reliable. Further, articles from PubMed are tagged in
accordance to their relevance, for instance, “clinical trials” or “article reviews,” as well as their
keywords derived ...


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