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CINAHL

The new look Ebsco interface is now live.  

We have the following guides to help you use the new website:
Quick Guide to Using Ebsco Eresources  
Advanced Searching in Ebsco Eresources 
Subject searching

Key updates:

  • Searching functionality stays the same in terms of entering keywords, building search strategies and viewing results
  • Any previous saved searches you had should have carried over into this new look
  • Ability to save and download more results than previously
  • A ‘Recent Activity’ log of searches and viewed records
  • New ‘Add to Project’ feature to save results for specific named projects
  • A new MyEbsco area which includes access to projects, saved items and recent activity log

If you previously created custom folders in the old version you will get a report to work with when you first login again.  Visit the Ebsco guidance for assistance with this. 

Any queries please email skills@cumbria.ac.uk  

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. See the guide to  Subject searching
  • 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.

See the Quick Guide to Using Ebsco Eresources

Other information

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

Guides and leaflets

As well as the Quick Guide to Using Ebsco Eresources and Subject searching already mentioned there are various tutorials available from EBSCO including Basic searching and Advanced searching in CINAHL.

 

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