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SPH511 Research Skills Guide

What is CINAHL?

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is EBSCOhost’s version of CINAHL, the well-known nursing and allied health database. CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.

EBSCOhost’s version has the full-text of many of the articles that are “indexed” in the database.

Why use CINAHL instead of Primo Search?

Primo Search is great for searching across many resources at once, but has limited search functionality compared with CINAHL, and does not necessarily get results that are as relevant.

CINAHL is a health-specific database which offers some powerful search functionality and has a huge range of limiters.

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