Journal articles are a form of scholarly communication. Researchers use journals to share their work with others interested in the field. When your professors do research, they plan and execute it carefully, then they write up the results and insightful conclusions in a manner that is accepted, and expected, by others in the field. Example of journals in Nursing Education are the Journal of Nursing Education and Nurse Educator

Ideally the articles you need will be available in electronic format, but this is not always the case. If an article is not available electronically in a WCSU resource there are other options. One is to see if we have the article in a print journal/resource. Another is to order the article through interlibrary loan (ILL). See more about this under Accessing Journals.

WCSU and SCSU have access to several thousand journals and it is not usually practical to search on a journal by journal basis. It is more effective to search in a database, which is a collection of journals and possibly other types of publications (books, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.) However, there situations when it is practical to go right to the journal, such as when you already know the article title or page numbers, or simply want to browse the latest volumes.