Library Plus is a database.
Databases are often subject specific and allow researchers to look within their discipline for journal articles (academic, peer reviewed articles as well as more observational or reflective pieces), conference proceedings, systematic reviews, clinical trials and so on. There may be more than one database that's useful to a particular subject; health, for instance, has: Medline, Cinahl, AMED, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Science & Social Science Citation Index, PubMed, SportDISCUS etc. and this would mean that researchers had to search them all one by one.
Library Plus is different in that it is a database that searches other databases for you. From a health perspective it's very useful as it searches all of the databases I've mentioned above (apart from PubMed - you would still have to search that separately if you wanted to). Not only does Library Plus search lots of databases in one go--you can find a full list in the document linked below--but it also searches the Library Catalogue for any print book or eBook results that match your keywords AND if you select the full-text option for article results it will cross-check against our E-Journals Finder list as well.
Have a look at the guide before completing the exercise in the next box.
Using the Library Plus link in the Quick Links box to the left, look for full-text articles that contain the following words return to practice nursing
When your results come up on screen, change the date range to the last 5 years using the slider bar on the left-hand side of the screen.
Click on the Get Full Text link below a relevant article to view it in full.