II. What is CiNAHL?
The library subscribes to many general and subject specific indexes, both in paper and online, in which you can find citations to articles by a particular author or on a certain topic. Usually the index will have a scope that defines what the index covers. For CiNAHL this sope is
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet. Searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. |
The way CiNAHL is created is that whenever a new issue of a nursing journal that CiNAHL covers comes out, the index creators will create a bibliographic record for each article in the journal. This citation is designed to give you enough information about the article to determine if it will be of use to you.
A CiNAHL citation includes citations the title and author of each article indexed, and the title, specific issue, and page numbers of the journal in which it was published. This is the information that allows you to actually locate the article.
CiNAHL include a list of subject headings to indicate the main topics of each article. It also includes an abstract, which is a brief description of the article. CiNAHL also provide the full text of many of the articles. Remember the library subscribes to these databases, we do not produce them in-house (as we do for Consuls, the Library catalog). This means that the databases are NOT restricted to just journals that we own, rather CiNAHLi covers far more journals than we actually own.
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