13. Step 2: State your search Example: “I am looking for information on nutrition and aging ” ↑ Step 3: Enter your first term. This is where you’ll search for the “preferred” terminology that CINAHL uses. So don’t worry about picking the perfect word now. We’ll pick later from the list of CINAHL headings the system suggests. ↑ Step 4: Click “Browse”
14. ← Step 5: Click on the term “Nutrition” to learn more about the term. The next screen will also give you other related terms you may want to search too.
15. ← Step 9: Select “Search Database” ← Step 8: Choose to “explode” this term so that you get all the articles dealing with the sub-topics too. ← Step 7: Notice that these sub-topics occur under the heading “Nutrition” in the subject tree. ← Step 6: Read the “Scope” note to find out more about the term.
16. ↑ Step 10: Select “CINAHL Headings” again to search for your second term
17. ↑ Step 11: Enter your second term. ↑ Step 12: Click “Browse”
31. Step 1: Scroll down the page to see your result set, or click on “View Results” ->
32. Step 2: Select “Search Options” to choose your limiters ->
33. ← Step 3: Add a date range from 2003 to 2008 to limit to articles published in the last 5 years. ← Step 4: Select “Female” to get articles about women specifically Step 5: Search ->
34. Notice you now have 10 results. Select “View Results” to review them ↘
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36. ← Step 1: Quickly review your citations and select “Add to folder” to isolate the ones you would like to look at more closely. ↑ Step 2: Select “Folder View” once you are done picking your citations.
37. ←↗ Step 4: Create a new folder if you would like to save your citations to your MyEBSCO Host account ← Step 3: Select all Use these icons to either print, email, save (as a web document), or export your citations ↙↓↘ ← Step 5: Use the “Move To” drop-down list to move the selected citations to your new folder.
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39. ← Step 1: Select the “Get it @ Western” button
40. ← Step 2: Select “Go” to link to the full-text of the article through our online subscriptions.
41. The link should take you to the full-text of the article. Look for the PDF link -> which will open a version of the article complete with page numbers (essential for quotations).
42. ← If we don’t have an electronic version available, try the UWO Catalogue to find the call number for the print version
43. ← Note the call number so that you can find the print version in the library.