CINAHL Database for HINARI Users:
nursing and allied health information
(Advanced Course: Module 5)
Table of Contents
• Background and Access to CINAHL
• Interface Overview: MY EBSCOHOST Account, Search
Boxes, Limits, Buttons
• Using CINAHL to Search: Basic Concepts, Subheadings, Advanced Concepts, Combining Sets,
Results Display, Limiting Search Results
• Saving Results: Creating/Saving Folders, Printing and,
Emailing Results, Saving and Retrieving Search
History and Creating Alerts
Background
CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied
Health Literature) provides indexing for 2,960
journals from the fields of nursing and allied health
(including unique search terms). It offers complete
coverage of English-language nursing journals and
publications from the National League for Nursing
and the American Nurses’ Association. The Index
covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, alternative/ complementary medicine,
consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Login to the HINARI website by clicking on
LOGIN.
Note: If you do not log in into HINARI, you
will not get access to the full text articles.
We will need to enter our HINARI User Name and Password in
the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have
access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in.
Since the migration to a new authentication server (Jan. 2014),
we strongly recommend use of Chrome or Mozilla. If you use
Internet Explorer, you will need to login twice.
If you are using Internet Explorer,
repeat the Login process on this 2nd
page and you will be redirected to
the HINARI Contents page.
From the HINARI portal Databases and
Article searching page, we will click on the
CINAHL link. This database provides
indexing for 2,960 journals from the fields of
nursing and allied health including many
journals that can be accessed from HINARI.
From the initial CINAHL page, we will create an
EBSCO Host account. Click on the Sign Into link.
Note: You will need to save the citations from
you search and, for access to the articles, go to
the HINARI Content page.
To register, click on the Create a new
Account button
On the Create a new Account link. Fill in
the required information for a new
account. Enter the information by
clicking on the Save Changes button.
Note: Make sure you save your User
Name and Password.
This slide confirms that Your account
has been created using your User
Name. Click on Continue to go to the
initial CINAHL Search page.
We now will complete a search using the
Select Subject Terms option. We will
activate/click on the Select Subject Terms box,
enter chloroquine in the Search box and then
click on Search. Our topic question is:
Is chloroquine still the most effective treatment
for malaria in Africa or should sulfadoxinepyrimethamine become the drug of choice?
To see more details on the Subject Heading for
chloroquine, you can select the link, display
the Subject Heading plus all the Qualify(ing)
Subheadings. By clicking on the boxes of the
specific Subheadings, this can be used to
further limit your CINAHL search .
Click on Search Database.
For the chloroquine MH OR
chloroquine search, we have
identified 505 articles. We can
use the Refine Results to
Narrow or Limit the results.
We now will look at how to combine
two subjects in a search. Again using
the Suggest Subject Terms option, we
will enter the term sulfadoxinepyrimethamine, and click on Search.
Although not always the case, this drug is a
combination of two CINAHL subject headings.
For this search, we will click on the boxes for
both Pyrimethamine and Sulfadoxine and
then click on Search Database.
We have displayed the 94 Search Results for
the subject terms Pyrimethamine and
Sulfadoxine search. Note that the search is
in Date Newest order although there are
other options in the drop down menu.
By clicking Retrieve Searches link, we have displayed our CINAHL
subject Search results. You can view the results for the combined
Pyrimethamine and Sulfadoxine (subject heading) search and also
the previous Chloroquine one. In the right column, you can View
Results, Edit search and View Details for these searches.
We now will click the check boxes for these two searches (S1 and
S2) and select the Search with AND option.
The combined S1 and S2 search has identified 21
articles for Pyrimethamine AND Sulfadoxine AND
Chloroquine (S3). We will click on View Results.
Now displayed are the
21 Search Results (S3)
for the combined search.
We have displayed the 16 articles from the
combined CINAHL subject search. If these
articles are of interest, you could save them
by clicking on the Add to Folder hyperlink.
Reminder: you will need to access HINARI to
identify if the full text articles are available.
For the 21 citations, we will click on the
add to folder icon which gives us the
print, e-mail and other options.
This slide notes that the 21
Results have been added to the
folder. Note the option to add all
the results at once.
We have opened the Folder and, by
clicking on the Select box, saved
these citations. Note the E-mail and
Save as File options – covered in
subsequent slides.
This slide notes the Save Manager
options which include Citation format
where we have chosen Vancouver.
Now confirmed is that the 21
article(s) will be saved and gives
you instructions how to save the
file with your web browser either
as a .txt or .html file.
In Chrome, we have opened the options box
and will click on the Save page as… option.
We have opened Chrome’s Save
page as option and will save the
folder’s material as a Webpage
Complete (html) document.
Note the downloaded file
(chloroquine search…htm) at
the bottom of the page. Click
on this to open the file.
When opening the file, you will
need to use a Web Browser
since this is an html file.
Now open is the E-mail Manager
page that contains a series of
options for the email message.
Click on Send to mail the message.
This slide contains that the
Email Confirmation - that
the message has been sent.
Displayed is the copy of the
Email message from the
CINAHL publisher. Note that
citations are in the text and
also an attached .html file.
To highlight the Alert option, we will
complete a pregnancy AND
complications search and add the
Evidence-Based Practice and
Adolescent 13-18 years and Adult
19-44 years Age Groups limits.
When the CINAHL headings
are displayed, we will Include
All Subheadings and click on
Search Database.
Now displayed are the 72 Search
Results. Note the Current Search
limits that we had added.
Now displayed is the Search History/Alerts page
for the pregnancy AND complications search.
There are the Print Search History/Retrieve
Searches/Retrieve Alerts/Save Searches/Alerts
options.
Note: any other saved searches also will be
displayed.
This is the initial slide of the
Save Searches/Alerts page
and we will click on the
Saved Search (Permanent)
option and Save.
This slide confirms that the
search has been saved.
Then click on Continue.
In My Folder: Saved Searches,
the Pregnancy Complications
results are listed.
From the Save Searches/Alerts
page, we now will create a
Save an Alert.
From the Save Searches / Alerts page,
we have clicked on Save Search As Alert,
with a Once a month Frequency, Articles
Published within the last One Year, Run
Alert for Six Months and Detailed Alert
results format and clicked on Save.
CINAHL has confirmed that Your Alert
has been created and lists the various
options that have been chosen.
Remember that you must be signed
into your MyEBSCOhost account to
save searches or alerts.
This email message is the
EBSCOhost Alert Notification
for the recently created alert.
In order to access the full-text articles
from a CINAHL search, we will need to
return to the HINARI Contents page.
We will proceed to locate one of the journal articles
from the search – A Trial of Combination Antimalarial
Therapies in Children from Papua New Guinea.
Karunaajewwa, HA & Others; New England Journal
of Medicine, 2008 Dec 11; 359(24): 2545-57
Click on ‘N’ from the Journal collection A-Z list.
Next, we will click on the hyperlink to the
New England Journal of Medicine.
Note that the green box confirms that you
will have access to the full-text articles.
We have entered the Issues Index
and will click on the link to the
2008 issues.
From the 2008 issues
page, we will click on the
link to Vol. 359, No. 24.
After entering the specific issue of the
New England Journal of Medicine, we
have scrolled down the table of contents
page and located the article. We now
click on the link the PDF version.
This is the initial page of the pdf file of the article
A Trial of Combination Antimalarial Therapies in
Children from Papua New Guinea.
This is the end of Advanced Course Module 5.
There is a workbook to accompany this module.
The workbook will take you through a live session
covering the topics included in this demonstration
with working examples.
Updated 2014 07