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CINAHL is an acronym for Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.  CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of current full text (up-to-the-minute content with no embargo*) for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL.  The database is designed to meet the information needs of nursing and allied health professionals. This premier database is recommended as a first choice for nursing research.

CINAHL contains more than 1,000,000 item records dating back to 1982. It provides complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Examples of titles offered in CINAHL include: AANA Journal, Gastroenterology Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Paediatric Nursing, Parents, etc.

CINAHL with Full Text also includes the Pre-CINAHL dataset.  Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and is a collection of records that provide basic bibliographic information before they are indexed with CINAHL Headings.

In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals are also included. Full text material includes more than 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

Consuls is the shared database catalog of the Connecticut State University System libraries and contains the holdings of the libraries at: Western, Central, Eastern, Southern and the Connecticut State Library. CONSULS can be searched by keyword (using Boolean logic), Library of Congress Subject Heading, Author and Title. Searches can be limited by format, date and location. Items held by other CSU libraries can be ordered using the "Request Book" feature and delivered to WCSU with 2-3 days.

Use CONSULS to search for reference print books (dictionaries, drug guides, etc.), circulating print books (works by a theorists, textbooks, books on nursing care, diseases, etc.), electronic books of all types, and visual materials in video and DVD format (often on a nursing education topic).

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.  In addition, this database includes Lexi-PALS, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Advertised as a "one-stop, full service" resource for health-related research. This collection provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. It is designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. It is a good source of secondary materials necessary to answer background questions.

Together, the Medline/PubMed databases are the resources of choice for comprehensive searches of medical, biomedical and allied health journal literature and information. Through PubMed, both databases can be searched at the same time. Journals available in full text through WCSU Libraries will be marked "WCSU" in PubMed.

Medline

Medline, available through WCSU Libraries, is the largest component of PubMed, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) database of biomedical citations and abstracts that is searchable on the Web (http://pubmed.gov) for free. MEDLINE covers over 4,800 journals published in the UnitedStatesand more than 70 other countries primarily from 1966 to the present. MEDLINE includes references to articles indexed with terms from NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH® .

WCSU Libraries licenses access to Medline through Ebsco,and therefore Medline can be searched along with other Ebsco databases using the Ebsco Combined Search feature.

PubMed

How is PubMed different from Medline? In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains:

• OLDMEDLINE, which contains journal literature published before 1966.
• Citations to literature that has not been indexed (to access the very latest information on a topic).
• Links to websites providing full text articles and other related resources
• A "clinical queries" search filter
• Be sure to access PubMed through WCSU Libraries (as above) in order to automatically access articles we license in full text.

* Embargo means a period for which a database doesn't not provide full text content of a journal.  Embargo periods can vary from 1 month to several years.  Journal publishers set embargos to prevent libraries from cancelling their print subscriptions.

This database is intended for use by consumers, students, and health professionals. It provides access to current reference sources as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Users are also provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Also a good source of secondary sources, including patient education materials.