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What is it? |
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) contains references from over 2700 journals in the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, alternative/complementary medicine and consumer health. Coverage is from 1982 onwards. |
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What is it for? |
Use CINAHL to find journal articles on healthcare topics. |
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How to access it |
Login to the Portal and then choose CINAHL from the A-Z List of Online Resources. |
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How to search
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Full text? |
A lot of full text is available from CINAHL. However, always click on the Find@Stir icon to check for the full text in one of Stirling University's libraries if the article you require is not immediately available. |
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Refworks ?
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Records can be downloaded into RefWorks (a software product for managing references and formatting bibliographies). A guide to exporting large numbers of records from CINAHL (or Medline via EBSCO) to bibliographic management software is available on our RefWorks help pages. |
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Other useful resources |
The research guide for nursing or research guide for midwifery webpages suggest some additional databases that cover similar topics to CINAHL |
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Further help
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Click on "help" in the top right corner of the search screen to get detailed information about using CINAHL. To get help with the database, click on "Ask a Librarian" at the top of the search screen, your enquiry will be answered by a Stirling University Librarian. |