Authors

Alicia Fátima Gómez Sánchez1, César Manso Perea2

Position

1Doctora por la Universidad del País Vasco. Sección Departamental de Enfermería. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Servicio de Biblioteca y Documentación. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones CardiovascularesCarlos III (CNIC)2Licenciado en Documentación. Biblioteca Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería Cruz Roja Española Madrid-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Contact address

Alicia Fátima Gómez Sánchez. Servicio de Biblioteca y Documentación. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC).

Contact email: afgomez@cnic.es

Abstract

The third article in the series “Update in search for scientific information” is presented, which addresses CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), a database containing references and abstracts of articles published in over 1,300 journals of Nursing and other Health Sciences in English, as well as practically all the publications of the American Nurses’ Association and the National League for Nursing. It covers from 1981 until the present day. The objective of this article is to explain some basic matters about its contents and its different versions, as well as to provide instructions for retrieving information through CINAHL. To this end, there is an overview of the structure and fields of this database, and the use of key words is explained, as well as the different modes of search, simple and advanced, search combination, and limits. The management of outcomes is also presented (to save, export and download), and the potential access to the complete text. Finally, the main advantages of CINAHL vs. MEDLINE are presented.

Keywords:

Bibliographic searches; scientific information; bibliographic databases; CINAHLstoring and retrieving information

Versión en Español

Título:

CINAHL como recurso imprescindible para los profesionales de Enfermería y disciplinas afines