CINAHL
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Information Type: Citations, abstracts, and full text articles

Provides links to full text articles from other EBSCOhost databases or from electronic journals subscribed to through EBSCO Subscription Services and the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service.

Description: CINAHL FullText, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, indexes and abstracts over 2800 journals, and provided full text coverage of over 390 publications. In addition, CINAHL offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software in nursing, audiovisuals, and book chapters. CINAHL also contains complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. CINAHL with Headings contains CINAHL-specific headings. EBSCO and Cinahl Information Systems recommend using the CINAHL Thesaurus that is supplied with the database in order to get the most accurate and targeted search results.
Coverage: 1982 to the present
Update Frequency: Weekly
Help & More Information: For more information about using CINAHL click "more info" at the end of the database description on the EBSCOhost main page. For general assistance in using EBSCOhost, view the EBSCOhost User Guide, the EBSCOhost Tutorial - Basic Searching for Academic Libraries', or the CINAHL tutorials: CINAHL Plus with Full Text: In-Depth Review or CINAHL Plus with Full Text Advanced Searching.
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