Cinahl Intro Oct 6 2008 For Second Year Nursing Students

Second Year Nursing: CINAHLOctober 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)

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

CINAHL Practice

• Create an account

• Find a known citation

• Design a search from scratch

• Save your work

• Get it at Western

Step 1: sign in ↓

← Step 2: select “Databases by Title”

Step 3: select “C” (for CINAHL) ↓

Step 4: scroll down ↓

Step 5: select CINAHL→

Step 6: sign in to My EBSCOhost →

←Step 7: select “I’m a new user”

Step 9: Submit↓

Step 8: Enter your information...

Doesn’t have to be your UWO username and password (but it might be easier to remember)

Done!

You now have an account with EBSCO.

This means you can save your searches and your selected articles.

CINAHL Practice

• Create an account

• Find a known citation

• Design a search from scratch

• Save your work

• Get it at Western

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.

CINAHL Practice

• Create an account

• Find a known citation

• Design a search from scratch

• Save your work

• Get it at Western

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

CINAHL Practice

• Create an account

• Find a known citation

• Design a search from scratch

• Save your work

• Get it at Western

Save your work

• Saving your search vs. Saving your folder

• Printing your search strategy

• Printing, emailing, exporting citations

CINAHL Practice

• Create an account

• Find a known citation

• Design a search from scratch

• Save your work

• Get it at Western

←Step 1: Select the “Get it @ Western” button

←Step 2: Select “Go” to link to the full-text of the article through our online subscriptions.

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).

←If we don’t have an electronic version available, try the UWO Catalogue to find the call number for the print version

←Note the call number so that you can find the print version in the library.

Robin Featherstonerfeathe@uwo.ca

(510) 661-2111 ext: 86383

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing