CINAHL (Index for Nursing and Allied Health)
Overview of CINAHL.
Why use it?
- Comprehensive coverage of English-language publications in nursing and allied health professions.
- Covers more than just journal articles: includes book chapters, theses, conference proceedings, audiovisual, practice standards etc.
- Contains many full-text resources.
- Well-structured controlled thesaurus (70% of which also appear as MeSH in Medline).
Bear in mind ...
- Coverage: 1983 to present Number of journals indexed: over 500.