Finding Articles in Nursing Using CINAHL Plus

CINAHL Plus, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, provides indexing and abstracting for over 3,000 nursing and allied health journals and other publications dating back to 1937 and contains well over 1,000,000 records.

1. For print/e-journal access, Start@Biomed:
   
   1. In the Address/Location box, type: http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed and press Enter.

   2. Click the down arrow in the menu and select CINAHL Plus (nursing).

2. Type your search terms in the query box.
   
   
3. Click .
   
   
4. Optional: If you have too many results, you can modify your search using the tab. Results can be limited by date range, or to a particular publication or author, journal subset, age range, or publication type. There is a check box that allows you to limit to only peer-reviewed items.
   
   
   

Viewing Records and Locating Items

1. To see more information about an item, click on the hyperlinked title.

2. To read or print an article, click to display options. This is available both from the summary view and the detailed view of individual items.
   
   

   1. Click the link.

   2. If there is no Full text available from… link, click the link.

   3. Click the ONLINE ACCESS link (if present) or note the specific UCLA library, call number, and volumes owned.

   4. If UC Los Angeles doesn’t own the journal, go back to the window and click the link to initiate an interlibrary loan request if you are a current UCLA faculty, staff, or student.

   5. Follow the instructions and complete all boxes* unless “optional.”

      *Note: Your library account number is ten digits: nine digits from the face of your BruinCard/UCLA Healthcare card and the tenth from the back of the card (usually near the right side).

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Printing, E-mailing, and Saving Citations

1. Click next to all the citations you want.
2. Open your folder by clicking
   
   

     Choose your options; for example,

   
   
   

   Click . If printing at the library, also follow posted instructions.

     Fill out the form (including your full e-mail address) and click .
   
   

     Choose your options; for example,

   
   
   
   

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Last updated: May 30, 2007