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CINAHL provides one-click access to research articles.
Click to the Advanced Search
Check the 'Research' check box below the search boxes
Add your keyword search terms and search
You can use research-related search terms, such as "concept analysis", "phenomenology", etc. as keywords. (See the search features below for additional research-related options, and the next section for qualitative and quantitative studies.)
One page, printable guide to using CINAHL's Advanced Search options.
Other useful Research-related search features
CINAHL Advanced Search also provides:
Check boxes for 'First Author is a Nurse' and 'Any Author is a Nurse' for research by nurses
Check boxes for Meta-Synthesis and Randomized Control Trial research studies
Clinical Queries selections (not necessarily research) for
Therapy
Prognosis
Review (literature review articles)
Qualitative
Causation
--Choose "High Sensitivity" for a broad search, "High Specificity" for a narrow, precise search, and "Best Balance" for something in between
Subject limits
Journal Subset--including Nursing, Core Nursing, Health Promotion, and Public Health
Special Interest
Population related:
Checkboxes for Human (as opposed to animal studies), Pregnancy, In- and Out-patient
Menus for
Male/Female (inclusive, i.e. definitely includes males or females, not necessarily only males or females)
Age Groups
Research related Publication Types such as:
Clinical Trial
Meta Analysis
Meta Synthesis (same as the check box)
Questionaire/Scale
Randomized Controlled Trial (same as the check box)
Research (same as the check box)
Research Instrument
Research Instrument Utilization
Note: Don't use all of these at once!
Concept Analysis and other types of research
If the type of research you need isn't listed in the search limits as described above, you can add a keyword or phrase to your search. This can be combined with other search features:
If you don't need a "nurse author" or other options, click the X next to the option on the left. X-ing the 'Full text' option will give you more articles you can order through Interlibrary Loan. You can add topics (like 'Avant' for the Walker-Avant method, or 'depression' or 'parenting') in the search boxes up top.
Medline has many Publication Types that include research, like Clinical Trials. You can also select research-related info like animal/human studies, age groups, in- or out-patient focus, etc.
PsycInfo has a huge number of Methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative. Research-related options like age groups are also available.
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MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Use instead of PubMed.
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American Psychological Association۪s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 periodicals in more than 27 languages.