About this Research Guide
This research guide is to support the research needs of chaplain residents, CPE interns, CPE faculty, and staff chaplains.
Yale University Library
The Yale University Library system has resources available in print and electronically. If the resource is not available on campus, you can use interlibrary loan to borrow resources from libraries outside of Yale.
There are two libraries at Yale that may be of particular interest: the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Divinity School Library.
- Quicksearch Library catalogsUse QuickSearch to search Yale University library collections including: books, journals, online resources, videos, scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles, digitized images, archival documents, and more.
- E-journals & E-booksTip: Search "by Subject" and click on "Palliative Care"
Databases
Medical Databases
- CINAHL Complete CINAHL Complete provides access to the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines dating back to 1937. Over 5000 journals are indexed including virtually all English language nursing journals along with selected titles in biomedicine, alternative therapies, and consumer health. It also offers access to Evidence- Based Care Sheets, searchable cited references, and over 250 research instrument descriptions.
- PsycINFO PsycINFO is produced by the American Psychological Association and contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacoloy, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Religious and Spiritual Databases
- ATLA Religion DatabaseThe premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion, with coverage from 1949 and retrospective indexing for several journal issues as far back as the nineteenth century.
General Databases
- Academic Search PremierThis multi-disciplinary database provides full text for journals, including full text for peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for many journals, and searchable cited references are provided for many titles.
Core Journals
- Chaplaincy Today (1998-2012) indexed for ATLA
- Journal of Disability & Religion indexed for CINAHL
- Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy indexed for MEDLINE & ATLA
- Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling : JPCC indexed for MEDLINE, ATLA
- Journal of Psychology and Theology indexed in PsycINFO
- Journal of Religion and Health indexed for MEDLINE
- Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health indexed for CINAHL, PsycINFO
- Mental Health, Religion & Culture indexed for ATLA, CINAHL, & PsycINFO
Staying Organized and Current
How to stay organized?
Consider using a citation manager to organize and maintain your citations. Learn more here guides.library.yale.edu/citationmanagement
How to keep current?
- Create an alert in your favorite database
- Subscribe to a table of contents feed from your favorite journal
- Use an RSS feed. Learn more here https://guides.library.yale.edu/keepingup/home
Use a Mobile App such as:
- Read by QxMD
- "Prime For You" through UCentral
- Prime For You provides the ability to discover articles based on previous searches done in PubMed Prime Search. To receive personalized articles, select the needed subject matter.
Contact Me!
Suzanne Estelle Holmer
Suzanne Estelle-Holmer
Contact:
Yale Divinity School Library
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
L-203
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
L-203
203-432-6374
Subjects: Divinity, Religious Studies