What Is Cinahl

An overview of the CINAHL database.

1. CUMULATIVE INDEX TO NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE

2. WHAT IS CINAHL? AN OVERVIEW OF THE CUMULATIVE INDEX TO NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE by MARK HABER THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE, GILL LIBRARY JANUARY 2009

3. WHAT IS CINAHL? Provides indexing to over 1200 journals Contains more than 1,000,000 records Coverage dates back to 1982 Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines

4. Controlled Vocabulary Agreed upon term for a subject or concept Cancer USE Neoplasms Diabetes USE Diabetes Mellitus Heart Attack USE Myocardial Infarction

5. Heart attack (free text search)

6. Click “Myocardial Infarction”

7. Click “Myocardial Infarction”

8. Limiting Your Search Searches in the CINAHL Database can be limited to Full text materials Peer reviewed journals

9. Put check marks in relevant boxes and click “Update Results”

10. Click “Rehabilitation, Cardiac”

11. Click “More” for additional limiters

12. Click the title for detailed record

13. Detailed Record - Citation

14. Detailed Record - Abstract

15. Click “PDF Full Text”

16. Example of full text article

17. CINAHL Headings List of CINAHL Subject Terms Lists Related Subject Terms Lists Relevant Sub-Headings

18. Click “CINAHL Headings”

19. Type “heart attack” and click “Browse”

20. Click “Myocardial Infarction”

21. List of Subheadings

22. Click “Diet Therapy” and Click “Search Database”

23. Click inside “Full Text” and “Peer Reviewed” click “Update Results”

24. Truncation The asterisk* at the end of the root of a word retrieves the word and all forms of the word Nurs * retrieves nurse, nurses, nursing, etc. Herb* retrieves herb, herbs, herbal, etc. Hospital* retrieves hospitals, hospitalization, etc.

25. n urs * and herb* and hospital*

26. Retrieving the Full Text Some articles are available full text Others can be requested at the Circulation Desk Journal articles, books, and dissertations that are not owned by CNR can be ordered via Illiad

27. Click title of article

28. Detailed record of article

29. Scroll down and click “Search for Article”

30. Click “Journal”

31. Request microfiche at Gill Library Circulation Desk

32. Advantages of Using CINAHL Comprehensive indexing of nursing literature Subject Headings and Sub-Headings Boolean Searching