CINAHL Database for HINARI Users: nursing and allied health information

(Advanced Course: Module 5)

Table of Contents

• Background and Access to CINAHL• Interface Overview: MY EBSCOHOST Account, Search

Boxes, Limits, Buttons• Using CINAHL to Search: Basic Concepts, Sub-

headings, Advanced Concepts, Combining Sets, Results Display, Limiting Search Results

• Saving Results: Creating/Saving Folders, Printing and, Emailing 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 (including unique search terms). 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.

Login to the HINARI website by clicking on LOGIN.

Note: If you do not log in into HINARI, you will not get access to the full text articles.

We will need to enter our HINARI User Name and Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in.

Since the migration to a new authentication server (Jan. 2014), we strongly recommend use of Chrome or Mozilla. If you use Internet Explorer, you will need to login twice.

If you are using Internet Explorer, repeat the Login process on this 2nd page and you will be redirected to the HINARI Contents page.

From the HINARI portal 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 link.

Note: You will need to save the citations from you search and, for access to the articles, go to the HINARI Content page.

To register, click on the Create a new Account button

On the Create a new Account link. Fill in the required information for a new account. Enter the information by clicking on the Save Changes 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 sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine become the drug of choice?

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 .

Click on Search Database.

For the chloroquine MH OR chloroquine search, we have identified 505 articles. We can use the Refine Results to Narrow or Limit the results.

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 click on Search Database.

We have displayed the 94 Search Results for the subject terms Pyrimethamine and Sulfadoxine search. Note that the search is in Date Newest order although there are other options in the drop down menu.

By clicking Retrieve Searches link, 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 21 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.

Now displayed are the 21 Search Results (S3) for the combined search.

For the 21 citations, we will click on the add to folder icon which gives us the print, e-mail and other options.

This slide notes that the 21 Results have been added to the folder. Note the option to add all the results at once.

We have opened the Folder and, by clicking on the Select box, saved these citations. Note the E-mail and Save as File options – covered in subsequent slides.

This slide notes the Save Manager options which include Citation format where we have chosen Vancouver.

Now confirmed is that the 21 article(s) will be saved and gives you instructions how to save the file with your web browser either as a .txt or .html file.

In Chrome, we have opened the options box and will click on the Save page as… option.

We have opened Chrome’s Save page as option and will save the folder’s material as a Webpage Complete (html) document.

Note the downloaded file (chloroquine search…htm) at the bottom of the page. Click on this to open the file.

When opening the file, you will need to use a Web Browser since this is an html file.

Now open is the E-mail Manager page that contains a series of options for the email message. Click on Send to mail the message.

This slide contains that the Email Confirmation - that the message has been sent.

Displayed is the copy of the Email message from the CINAHL publisher. Note that citations are in the text and also an attached .html file.

To highlight the Alert option, we will complete a pregnancy AND complications search and add the Evidence-Based Practice and Adolescent 13-18 years and Adult 19-44 years Age Groups limits.

When the CINAHL headings are displayed, we will Include All Subheadings and click on Search Database.

Now displayed are the 72 Search Results. Note the Current Search limits that we had added.

Now displayed is the Search History/Alerts page for the pregnancy AND complications search. There are the Print Search History/Retrieve Searches/Retrieve Alerts/Save Searches/Alerts options.

Note: any other saved searches also will be displayed.

This is the initial slide of the Save Searches/Alerts page and we will click on the Saved Search (Permanent) option and Save.

This slide confirms that the search has been saved. Then click on Continue.

In My Folder: Saved Searches, the Pregnancy Complications results are listed.

From the Save Searches/Alerts page, we now will create a Save an Alert.

From the Save Searches / Alerts page, we have clicked on Save Search As Alert, with a Once a month Frequency, Articles Published within the last One Year, Run Alert for Six Months and Detailed Alert results format and clicked on Save.

CINAHL has confirmed that Your Alert has been created and lists the various options that have been chosen.

Remember that you must be signed into your MyEBSCOhost account to save searches or alerts.

This email message is the EBSCOhost Alert Notification for the recently created alert.

In order to access the full-text articles from a CINAHL search, we will need to return to the HINARI Contents page.

We will proceed to locate one of the journal articles from the search – A Trial of Combination Antimalarial Therapies in Children from Papua New Guinea. Karunaajewwa, HA & Others; New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 Dec 11; 359(24): 2545-57

Click on ‘N’ from the Journal collection A-Z list.

Next, we will click on the hyperlink to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Note that the green box confirms that you will have access to the full-text articles.

We have entered the Issues Index and will click on the link to the 2008 issues.

From the 2008 issues page, we will click on the link to Vol. 359, No. 24.

After entering the specific issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, we have scrolled down the table of contents page and located the article. We now click on the link the PDF version.

This is the initial page of the pdf file of the article A Trial of Combination Antimalarial Therapies in Children from Papua New Guinea.

This is the end of Advanced Course Module 5.There is a workbook to accompany this module. The workbook will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this demonstration with working examples.

Updated 2014 07