Research Tools
1. PubMed


PubMed are maintains by The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health ,including references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics from 1950. There are free and payment service for users.

2. MeSH

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is a controlled vocabulary thesaurus developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, used for indexing and searching biomedical literature such as PubMed/MEDLINE. It is organized in a hierarchical tree structure, arranging subject terms from broad to specific, so that searching a single parent term automatically retrieves all related narrower terms beneath it (for example, searching "Nursing" also captures related concepts like "Nursing Care" and "Nursing Process"). This helps overcome inconsistencies in terminology and improves both the precision and comprehensiveness of literature searches.

You can browse the MeSH vocabulary through the following links:

3. Endnote


Some computers in the library have already with EndNote software for students.EndNote is a bibliographic management software that can help improve the efficiency of the paper writing process. It can integrate data collected from various literature collection channels, classify and manage documents, and simplify citation and reference writing formats.