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Description   CINAHL provides comprehensive coverage of the nursing and allied health journal literature. English language publications in nursing and allied health are indexed completely. In addition to journals, CINAHL includes citations for nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, health related books, educational software, and the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Journals in the related subjects of consumer health, alternate/complementary medicine, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship are indexed selectively. CINAHL offers cited reference searching from 1994 to the present. The pool of journal titles from which these articles are drawn currently numbers 1,200. Full-text/full image items include nurse practice acts, standards of practice, drug records, research instruments, and the contents of 43 state and regional nursing association journals.
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Dates covered   1982+.
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Updating frequency   Weekly.
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Sources   Over 2,900 journals are indexed routinely. Abstracts are added to the citations from 1,200 journal titles.
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Type of coverage   Indexing with citations, abstracts, some full text or full image.
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Print Counterpart or related resources   Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature v. 27+ 1982+.
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Provider   Producer or content provider: Cinahl Information Systems
Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Ebsco Publishing.
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Help   Help is available from within the database using the Online Help button in the upper right corner of the search screen. This takes the user to a table of contents for detailed help http://bll.epnet.com/help/ehost/EhostHelp.htm
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