Transcript CINAHL DATABASE FOR HINARI USERS: nursing and allied health information (Module 7.1)

CINAHL DATABASE FOR HINARI USERS:
nursing and allied health information
(Module 7.1)
CINAHL DATABASE FOR HINARI USERS
Instructions  This course is a PowerPoint demonstration
intended to emphasize skills on how to use CINAHL
(Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health
Literature) as a tool to identify articles on healthrelated subjects.
 The module is off-line and is intended as an
information resource for reference use.
Table of Contents
• Background and Access to CINAHL
• Interface Overview: MY EBSCOHOST Account, Search
Boxes, Limits, Buttons
• Using CINAHL to Search: Basic Concepts, Subheadings, Advanced Concepts, Combining Sets,
Results Display, Limiting Search Results
• Saving Results: Creating/Saving Folders, Printing,
Emails and Exporting Results, Saving and Retrieving
Search History and Creating Alerts
Background
CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied
Health Literature) provides indexing for 2,960
journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
It offers complete coverage of English-language
nursing journals and publications from the National
League for Nursing and the American Nurses’
Association. The Index covers nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences librarianship, alternative/
complementary medicine, consumer health and 17
allied health disciplines.
Before logging into the Partner Publisher
services websites, we will Login to the
HINARI site using the URL
http://www.who.int/hinari/
Repeat the Login process on this
2nd page and you will be redirected
to the HINARI Contents page.
Remember - If you fail to use the
Login page, you will have a second
option on the Content page. We
now will open the Database and
article searching page.
From the Databases and Article searching
page, we will click on the CINAHL link. This
database provides indexing for 2,960
journals from the fields of nursing and allied
health including many journals that can be
accessed from HINARI.
From the initial CINAHL page, we will create an EBSCO
Host account. Click on the Sign Into MY EBSCOHost link.
Note: You will need to save the citations from you search
and, for access to the articles, go to the Full-text journals,
databases and other resources page of HINARI.
Initially click on the Create a new Account link.
After another screen is displayed, fill in the
required information for a new account. Enter the
information by clicking on the Submit button.
Note: Make sure you save your User Name and
Password.
This slide confirms that Your account
has been created using your User
Name. Click on Continue to go to the
initial CINAHL Search page.
We now will complete a search using the
Select Subject Terms option. We will
activate/click on the Select Subject Terms box,
enter chloroquine in the Search box and then
click on Search. Our topic question is:
Is chloroquine still the most effective treatment
for malaria in Africa or should sulfadoxinepyrimethamine become the drug of choice?
For the best use of the Select Subject Terms
option, limit your search to one search box.
To see more details on the Subject Heading for
chloroquine, you can select the link, display
the Subject Heading plus all the Qualify(ing)
Subheadings. By clicking on the boxes of the
specific Subheadings, this can be used to
further limit your CINAHL search .
Also displayed is the scope note for the subject
heading if it is available.
We are now in “Term view”
To see more details on the subject heading
chloroquine, we have clicked on the link and
displayed the Subject Heading plus all the
Qualify(ing) Subheadings. By clicking on the
boxes of the specific Subheadings, this can be
used to further limit your CINAHL search .
The position of the subject heading in the
subject heading tree view can be displayed by
clicking the linked term.
We can also Browse for Additional Terms
We can also Browse for Additional
Terms.
Type in your term chloroquine and
select Browse.
Note your previously selected search
terms are retained.
We have browsed and found Results for:
chloroquine.
We now will click on the Explode option and
then the Chloroquine subject box. To complete
the search, we will click on Search Database.
Note: the Explode option allows you to include
all the articles that are assigned terms at more
specific levels.
For the chloroquine MH (subject) search, we
have identified 270 articles. We can use the
Refine Results to Narrow or Limit the
results. Refining the results by Source Types
and selecting Periodicals would limit the
results to journal articles that could be
accessible via HINARI.
We now will look at how to combine two subjects in a
search. Again using the Suggest Subject Terms option,
we will enter the term sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and
click on Search.
Although not always the case, this drug is a
combination of two CINAHL subject headings.
For this search, we will click on the boxes for
both Pyrimethamine and Sulfadoxine and then
Combine selections with AND option.
Then, we will click on Search Database.
We have displayed the 80 results
for the subject terms Pyrimethamine
and Sulfadoxine search. Note that
the search is in Date Descending
order although there are other
options in the drop down menu.
We have returned to the original Chloroquine subject
search to review the Basic Search options. For a more
precise or limited search, we have added the Journal Article
(Publication Type) and English (Language) Limits.
You can also limit by Published date
Note : you can choose multiple options although this could
make the search results number too limited in scope.
The search now is reduced to 66
results. The new limits are listed
in the Search Options column.
We have displayed our CINAHL subject Search results. You can
view the results for the combined Pyrimethamine and Sulfadoxine
(subject heading) search and also the previous Chloroquine one. In
the right column, you can View Results, Edit search and View
Details for these searches.
We now will click the check boxes for these two searches (S1 and
S2) and select the Search with AND option.
The combined S1 and S2 search has
identified 16 articles for Pyrimethamine
AND Sulfadoxine AND Chloroquine
(S3). We will click on View Results.
We have displayed the 16 articles from the
combined CINAHL subject search. If these
articles are of interest, you could save them
by clicking on the Add to Folder hyperlink.
Reminder: you will need to access HINARI to
identify if the full text articles are available.
This and the next slide
describe how to use
the various Buttons
available in CINAHL.
Clicking this link will bring you back to the search page and automatically clear
any terms in the search boxes
Lists all of the publications available in CINAHL. Browse by alphabetical order, or
search for a specific journal using the Browse search box. Each of the records
shows both the title, as well as the time span of the publication that is covered by
CINAHL. So if you are looking the reference of an article in the journal published
before the time period specified, you will not be able to find it.
The controlled vocabulary system used in the CINAHL database, much like the
“MeSH Headings” for PubMed. In short, using controlled vocabulary allows you
to do much more effective and exhaustive searches than your typical keyword
searches.
Allows you to search for articles that cite a particular article or author. This
search is limited to those articles found in CINAHL. This is a good way to quickly
find where a particular article has been cited after it has been published.
If you mouse over the “More” link, you can see a drop-down menu of more
search options. Of note is the “Citation Matcher” search. This is similar to the
popular “Single Citation Matcher” feature in PubMed. If you have a known
article, this is the fastest way to locate its record in CINAHL. Remember that not
all articles can be found in CINAHL. If you do not find what you want try
PubMed.
Discussed in a previous slide
The “Folder” link is where you access most of the personalization features, such
as your saved searches, saved alerts, saved records, etc.
Allows you to check in to see what’s new on the EBSCO platform.
This is the link to EBSCO databases support. It allows you to teach yourself how
to use all EBSCO databases to their maximum potential.
Logs you out of CINAHL.