Cinahl Intro Oct 6 2008 For Second Year Nursing Students
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This document provides instructions for nursing students on how to use the CINAHL database. It outlines 9 steps to create a CINAHL account and practice searching, including finding a known citation, designing a original search, and saving and accessing results. Contact information is provided for the nursing research librarian Robin Featherstone for help with CINAHL or nursing research questions.
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- 1. Second Year Nursing: CINAHL October 6, 2008 Robin Featherstone, Research & Instructional Librarian (Nursing) rfeathe@uwo.ca (510) 661-2111 ext: 86383 http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing http://uwonursinglibrarian.blogspot.com/ UWONursLibrarian (AIM)
- 2. Places to go for help • Call or email me (Robin) with nursing specific research questions or CINAHL problems rfeathe@uwo.ca (519) 661-2111 ext: 86383 • Try the reference help desk with access problems, password problems, etc... tayref@uwo.ca (519) 661-3168
- 3. CINAHL Practice • Create an account • Find a known citation • Design a search from scratch • Save your work • Get it at Western
- 4. Step 1: sign in ↓ ← Step 2: select “Databases by Title”
- 5. Step 3: select “C” (for CINAHL) ↓
- 6. Step 4: scroll down ↓ Step 5: select CINAHL→
- 7. Step 6: sign in to My EBSCOhost →
- 8. ←Step 7: select “I’m a new user”
- 9. Step 8: Enter your information... Doesn’t have to be your UWO username and password (but it might be easier to remember) Step 9: Submit ↓
- 10. Done! You now have an account with EBSCO. This means you can save your searches and your selected articles.
- 11. CINAHL Practice • Create an account • Find a known citation • Design a search from scratch • Save your work • Get it at Western
- 12. Find a known citation Witcombe, B., & Meyer, D. (2006, December 23). Sword swallowing and its side effects. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 333(7582), 1285-1287. Retrieved October 6, 2008, from CINAHL database. Ashton, J. (2007, December). Sniffing glue is still a public health problem in adolescence. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 61(12), 1037-1037. Retrieved October 6, 2008, from CINAHL database.
- 13. CINAHL Practice • Create an account • Find a known citation • Design a search from scratch • Save your work • Get it at Western
- 14. Design a search from scratch • I am looking for articles about using gum to stop smoking o Searching one concept at a time o CINAHL headings vs. keyword search terms o Using the search history o Combining concepts using AND o Limiting results
- 15. CINAHL Practice • Create an account • Find a known citation • Design a search from scratch • Save your work • Get it at Western
- 16. Save your work • Saving your search vs. Saving your folder • Printing your search strategy • Printing, emailing, exporting citations
- 17. CINAHL Practice • Create an account • Find a known citation • Design a search from scratch • Save your work • Get it at Western
- 18. ←Step 1: Select the “Get it @ Western” button
- 19. ←Step 2: Select “Go” to link to the full- text of the article through our online subscriptions.
- 20. 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).
- 21. ←If we don’t have an electronic version available, try the UWO Catalogue to find the call number for the print version
- 22. ←Note the call number so that you can find the print version in the library.
- 23. Robin Featherstone rfeathe@uwo.ca (510) 661-2111 ext: 86383 http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing