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CINAHL

All EBSCO databases are moving to a new interface on the 5th August.

If you have Saved searches and records, these will be automatically transferred.

Custom folders and Alerts will not transfer.  The new interface will give you an option to download a report of your old folders (In projects) but this is a large unwieldy file.  There a few things you can do in the current site to avoid this:

  • Delete any custom folders you no longer need.
  • If you have saved searches in a custom folder, you can select it and "Move to" the Saved searched folder.
  • Back up saved items in RefWorks.
  • Search Alerts will need to be retrieved and saved as a search to be recreated in the new interface.
  • Journal alerts will need to be set up in the new interface, so keep a list.

Full Details

CINAHL Ultimate is a research tool for nursing and allied health studies and provides fast and easy access to top journals, evidence based care sheets, quick lessons and more. Indexing 3,809 journals, it has 1,665 full-text peer reviewed journals going back to 1962.

The database covers all nursing fields from ambulatory care and gerontologic nursing to physical therapy and psychiatric nursing.  

Date Range

1982 to date. 

Size

Active full-text journals and magazine: 1,781

Active full-text, peer-reviewed journals: 1,665

Active full-text, peer-reviewed journals with no embargo: 1,382

Features

  • CINAHL Ultimate includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,537 active global OA journals.
  • CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine.
  • EBSCO has the premier and most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts, covering all disciplines and major publishers. 

 Subjects Covered:

  • Ambulatory care nursing
  • Cardiovascular nursing
  • Critical care nursing
  • Emergency medical technicians
  • Gerontologic nursing
  • Nuclear medicine technicians
  • Occupational therapy
  • Oncologic nursing
  • Pediatric nursing
  • Physical therapy
  • Psychiatric nursing

Search Tips

Uses Boolean AND, OR, NOT ? wildcard,
* truncation, () for grouping,
“ “ exact phrases
Can limit by date, full-text and document type.

NOTE:  the string search can only support up to 5 "OR"s in one line.  You will need to break up your alternative terms into chunks if there are more than that.

Other information

Some journals have an embargo, so there may be a delay before recent issues are made available.

Guides and leaflets

There are various tutorials available from Ebsco including Basic searching and Advanced searching in CINAHL.

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