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Librarian Consultant: Anne Powers at (919) 660-1128

The CINAHL database provides coverage of the nursing and allied health literature back to 1982. This includes journals as well as books, dissertations, audiovisuals, and other formats. Selected journals from biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and health sciences librarianship are also covered.

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CINAHL Quick Reference Card
A basic handout on CINAHL designed to be printed out and folded in half for easy pocket reference.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text via EBSCOhost
Includes tips to help you define your topic, choose appropriate terms, combine search statements, and refine your search strategy.

Searching Tips - MEDLINE & CINAHL
Offers strategies to broaden or refine your search and discusses how to use the searching features of CINAHL (headings, subheadings, keywords, combining sets, and limits) to your advantage.

Finding an Article or Journal
Steps for finding a journal or a known citation in CINAHL.

Creating Links to Journal Articles
Creating links to articles is the best way to share content protected by copyright.

Research Instruments and Questionnaires
This tip sheet outlines some approaches that CINAHL offers in finding information about research instruments and questionnaires.

Request CINAHL Training
We offer hands-on training on searching the CINAHL database. The session covers subject and keyword searching, available limits, full-text access, and saving searches/creating alerts.

CINAHL Tutorial
Interactive tutorial that walks you through forming a clinical question to use for searching CINAHL.

Using CINAHL Headings
This video (5:03) will demonstrate constructing a search using CINAHL headings.

CINAHL Tutorial (University of Florida)
This Web course offers interactivity in the form of narrated examples and click-to-learn tutorials. It also provides information pertaining to CINAHL navigation and search strategies organized into five separate modules.

Using the GetIt@Duke Button
This video (2:12) shows you how to utilize the GetIt@Duke button, which appears in CINAHL searches, to locate full-text articles.