CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) can now be searched from the CUL Library Catalog.
CINAHL provides indexing for 2,913 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL 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. Searchable cited references for 1,150 journals are also included. Full text material includes nearly 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of the latest journal articles. It is a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which is available to searchers only for the short time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. When indexed, the references are removed from Pre-CINAHL and added to the main CINAHL database.
To see a complete list of the publications covered, click the “Publications” link on the main CINAHL search page.
To access CINAHL…..
1. Simply enter “CINAHL” as a Basic catalog title search. (This link can be bookmarked for future quick reference).
Coming soon….
2. From Find Databases, check under “View A to Z List of Databases” or under “Medicine (Human and Veterinary)” subject category.
3. Also from the Catalog, search for “Academic Search Premier”, then choose databases, click “CINAHL” and/or “Pre-CINAHL”.
On the results displays, links are provided to the full-text if available (simply click on PDF Full Text or HTML Full Text ) and/or the “Get It! Cornell” button to request a copy electronically through interlibrary loan services.
For current awareness alerts on topics of going interest, saved search alerts can be set up in CINAHL. You can also check Pre-CINAHL for the latest references before they are indexed for the main database.
TheUniversity of Florida Health Science Center Libraries offers a helpful CINAHL tutorial at http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/index.htm.If questions about CINAHL, please contact vetref@cornell.edu in the Veterinary Library or mannref@cornell.edu at Mann Library.