Searching CINAHL for Journal Articles
Updated Aug. 2008
Dr. Nancy J. Mactague, nmactag@aurora.edu, 630 844 5441
Library Home Page > Journal Databases by Subject Page > Nursing
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) (EBSCO)
You may want to search the following additional journal article databases for this or other
topics: Academic Search Premier, Pre-CINAHL, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Health
Source—Nursing/Academic Edition, & Health Source—Consumer Edition
simultaneously.
Don’t forget to use ProQuest Nursing Journals separately, too.
Let’s search in CINAHL for nursing theory and nursing theorist information.
Library Home Page > Journal Databases by Subject > Health & Nursing >
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
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Health & Nursing
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CINAHL Plus with Full-Text. Note the other databases for nursing!
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Clicking “Full text Journals (and other sources) – General” will get you into all of
the databases offered through EBSCO.
The databases (for books, journals, etc.) contain the information. EBSCO is a
provider of the databases. We pay EBSCO for access to the databases.
When you cite your sources, you will include the database name, such as
CINAHL Plus with Full Text.
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This is the top of the page that allows you to choose databases. You could search
all of these at once, but for this demonstration we’ll choose CINAHL Plus with
Full Text. So, we need to scroll down.
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Put a check in the box next to CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Note that Pre-CINAHL is
also offered. It is a Pre-Publication database, that is, the citations come out even before
the print journal is published. Therefore, full-text of these articles is not yet available.
Put a check in the box next to CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Farther down you will see
two Health Source databases, and even farther down – off the bottom is Pre-CINAHL.
(These are in alphabetical order.)
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Type “nursing theor*” in the search box and put a check in the box next to Full Text.
What do the symbols do? What does the asterisk do?
Truncation cuts off the end of the word and searches for different endings,
such as –ed, -ing, -s, -es, etc.
Wildcard looks for a letter within a word, such as wom?n, or m?n.
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You have 764 items. Wow! Too many!
Click Advanced Search.
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In an empty search box enter the name of your theorist. I’ll use Orem. Re-check the fulltext box. Note limiters for each database, including peer-reviewed/scholarly journals.
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So for Dorothea Orem I have 32 items.
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To see additional information about an article, mouse over the magnifying glass. For
some articles the pop-up box will give you an abstract, which is a summary of the
article’s contents. If you want to see the full article, click the PDF Full Text link.
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You can print or email this article.
Use the Result List link to go back to the long list of items.
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If I need more information, I can uncheck the Full-Text limiter, and I will have 179
articles. You will see the Find It link.
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What if the article you want isn’t full-text online?
1.
Click here to check availability. You will either get a link to the
full-text in a different database, or you will get an Inter-Library Loan request
form, which is shown below.
Click GO
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Enter your personal information.
Make sure your email is correct!
2. Library Home Page > Find A Known Article (index, by journal title, to full-text,
on-line journals to which we subscribe)
3. Library Home Page > AU’s Print Periodicals
4. To request items from other schools:
Books and Articles: Library Home Page > Library Services > Document Delivery
Request Form (for books and journal articles)
Requesting Materials through Inter-Library Loan (electronically) ALLOW ONE
TO TWO WEEKS
ALSO: The amount of time you can keep books, and the number of times
you can renew books is determined by the lending library.
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