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- Description
- CINAHL provides comprehensive coverage of the nursing and allied health journal
literature.
English language publications in nursing and allied health are indexed completely. In
addition to
journals, CINAHL includes citations for nursing dissertations, conference
proceedings, health
related books, educational software, and the publications of the American Nurses Association and
the
National League for Nursing. Journals in the related subjects of consumer
health,
alternate/complementary medicine, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship are
indexed
selectively. CINAHL offers cited reference searching from 1994 to the present. The pool of
journal
titles from which these articles are drawn currently numbers 1,200. Full-text/full image
items
include nurse practice acts, standards of practice, drug records, research instruments,critical
paths, clinical trials, and the contents of 72 journals including state and regional nursing
association titles.
As of March 2009, CINAHL includes access to Pre-CINAHL citations.
Pre-CINAHL, designed as a current awareness database, contains brief citations for new
journal articles that will be integrated into CINAHL in four weeks from the date of
receipt.
- Help
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Help is available from within the database using the Online Help button
in the upper right corner of the search screen.
This takes the user to a table of contents for detailed help
http://bll.epnet.com/help/ehost/EhostHelp.htm
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- User tools and features
- - Journal alerts,
Search history alerts, and Saved searches.
- A visual search tab allows the user to search efficiently across broad subjects,
and then returns a visual map of results, organized by topic.
- Dates covered
- 1981+.
- Updating frequency
- Weekly.
- Sources
- Over 2,900 journals are indexed routinely. Abstracts are added to the citations from 1,200 journal
titles.
- Type of coverage
- Indexing with citations, abstracts, some full text or full image.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature v. 27+ 1982+.
- Funder
- VALE - Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey
- Producer/content provider
- Cinahl Information Systems
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Ebsco
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