Access to CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is moving from OVID to EBSCO. The new interface is called CINAHL Plus.

Enhanced Features and Options with CINAHL Plus

• Coverage increased from 1982 to 1937.
• Cited author searching is available now.
• The visual search option can organize results by topic into a colorful map.

Overview of the Database and Services

• Indexes more than 3,000 journals in nursing and allied health.  
• Contains more than 360 research instrument records with details on validation and utilization.
• Provides access to full-text articles through the "NIH Library Full-Text Plus!" service.
• Includes English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.
• Covers the research literature in alternative/complementary medicine, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship, nursing, and 17 allied health disciplines.
• Offers limits for publication type, language, gender, age group, and special interest.
• Clusters results to assist in refining searches.
• Contains a thesaurus of CINAHL Headings (subject terms).
• Exports to EndNote®, Reference Manager®, and other bibliographic management programs.
• Alerts and RSS feeds for notification of new content.
• Provides Evidence-Based Care Sheets.
• Offers CINAHL Continuing Education Unit Modules accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Access

• The new CINAHL Plus via EBSCO is available on the HSRL website now.  CINAHL via OVID is going away on December 31, 2008.
• HSRL website > Research Tools > Databases > CINAHL Plus

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