2. WHAT IS CINAHL? AN OVERVIEW OF THE CUMULATIVE INDEX TO NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE by MARK HABER THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE, GILL LIBRARY JANUARY 2009
3. WHAT IS CINAHL? Provides indexing to over 1200 journals Contains more than 1,000,000 records Coverage dates back to 1982 Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines
4. Controlled Vocabulary Agreed upon term for a subject or concept Cancer USE Neoplasms Diabetes USE Diabetes Mellitus Heart Attack USE Myocardial Infarction
24. Truncation The asterisk* at the end of the root of a word retrieves the word and all forms of the word Nurs* retrieves nurse, nurses, nursing, etc. Herb* retrieves herb, herbs, herbal, etc. Hospital* retrieves hospitals, hospitalization, etc.
26. Retrieving the Full Text Some articles are available full text Others can be requested at the Circulation Desk Journal articles, books, and dissertations that are not owned by CNR can be ordered via Illiad