CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the well known index to literature in the fields of nursing and allied health. It is in the EBSCOhost platform and includes the full-text of hundreds of journals.

Other resources that are indexed include legal cases, drug records, clinical trials, professional publications, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and Evidence-Based Care Sheets.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is an EBSCOhost database so here are some tips on searching in EBSCOhost:

The default is to the Advanced Search screen, with 3 lines of search.

• The default of All fields means that your search terms will be searched for in the main fields of each record - notably title, abstract, and subject headings. You can make your search narrower if you change this to Title - Ti or to Subject - Su

• The default is to a keyword search so typing in speech pathology will search for speech AND pathology. If you wish to search for a phrase you will need to enclose the words in double quotation marks - eg: "speech pathology".

•  Many results will be available in full-text. Look for the HTML or PDF links to access the full article. For results where there is no full-text link, click on the Find it - CSU link to search for the full article in other CSU Library databases.

• If you wish to permanently save articles and searches, or set up search alerts, you need a personal account/folder in EBSCOhost.

This short video (3:54) looks at using Advanced Search in CINAHL, and using Search History to combine multiple searches.