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HLT505 Research Skills Guide

Introduction

CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature - is a major literature database for nursing and allied health. This section covers searching for best evidence in CINAHL Plus with Full Text, and sharing and saving your searches. You don't need to have an account to share a search strategy, but you do need one to save searches.

Accessing the full articles

Your search results are presented as brief records. (Clicking on the title takes you to the full record.) The links beneath the article may include the following options:

  • PDF Full Text - a downloadable PDF of the article, which can then be read online, or saved straight to your computer
  • HTML Full Text - the entire article will display in HTML. There won't be a download option
  • Linked Full Text - you will be taken to an external site which will allow you to view and (usually) download the article.

But some of the results won't have the full-text attached. In those cases, click on the Find it link, which activates a search for the full article elsewhere in the Library's online subscriptions.  The link should take you to the record for the article in Primo Search and, from there, click on one of the listed databases to get to the full article.

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