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As alternatives, you might also consider searching PubMed if you don't find what you're looking for in CINAHL:
Mobile Access
You can save searches and articles, download full text, and email results to yourself. The mobile access does not sync with your desktop workstation account.
For iOS and Android users, you need to fill out an application to use the Mayo license. From your desktop computer, go to the library web page, under Databases, click on the link for CINAHL, and at the bottom of the CINAHL page, you'll see a link for "EBSCOhost iPhone and Android Applications."
For other mobile devices, go to: http://m.ebscohost.com-- or scan the QR code.
CINAHL Overview
CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Hosted by the company, EBSCO, it covers nursing and allied health journals.
Search Tips
- Be careful with your limits! It is best not to use these limits when doing a search in CINAHL: limit to full-text, abstract available, evidence-based practice. Contact the Library if you have questions about CINAHL limits.
Strengths
- Subject headings specific to nursing/allied health
- Ability to limit searches to research articles, articles from peer reviewed journals, care plans, and articles authored by nurses
- Offers proximity searching capability. For example, kidney N5 failure will find results that contain kidney failure as well as failure of the kidneys
- Research articles include the names of the instruments used in the studies
- Includes references to selected nursing doctoral dissertations, conference proceedings/abstracts, and book chapters
- Includes references to Cochrane Systematic Reviews
- Helps you automatically format references according to APA style
- Can view the references cited by many of the indexed articles
- HTML full text documents in EBSCO can be downloaded as MP3 files as well as translated into other langauges
Limitations
- Articles in CINAHL go back to 1981; PubMed and MEDLINE (Ovid) go back to 1947
Help: Video tutorials from Yale
- #1: CINAHL IntroductionThis is the first of the CINAHL video tutorials series, covering the access of CINAHL, setting up EbscoHost account, and an overview of the interface.
- #2: CINAHL Formulating Your QuestionsThis tutorial teaches how to formulate, using the PICO model, a focused, well-built question for an effective, exhaustive literature search in CINAHL.
- #3: CINAHL Headings (Part I)This tutorial introduces the CINAHL Headings system used in the CINAHL database - what it is and why it helps conduct a better search in the system.
- #4: CINAHL Headings (Part II)This tutorial covers CINAHL headings tree structure, exploding a heading, using a heading as a major concept, and subheadings.
- #5: CINAHL Combining and Limiting SearchesThis tutorial teaches how to combine searches using Boolean operators and how to set common limits on searches, such as age groups, time spans, publication types, etc.
- #6: CINAHL Search Result DisplayThis tutorials covers the search result display of CINAHL, including how to save, email, print search results, and how to find full text of articles.
- #8: CINAHL Exporting Searching Results to EndNoteThis tutorial demonstrates how to export search results from CINAHL to EndNote, a popular web-base citation management application available at the Library.
- #9: CINAHL: Saving SearchesThis tutorial demonstrates how to save search strategy / search history permanently in CINAHL to allow retrieval and automatic rerun in the future.