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About CINAHL with Full Text

CINAHL with Full Text provides full text articles for the top nursing and allied health literature available and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, and consumer health.

Conducting a Search

The screenshot examples below show a search for articles about governance and health policy.

  • I put my keywords into different search boxes to make the search simpler.
  • Click the blue Search button to start finding journal articles.

Use governance, health, and policy as keywords and put into different boxes before clicking on the blue search button.

Reviewing Search Results

This search found 3,577 results for journal articles.

  • Results are sorted by relevance with the most relevant articles shown at the top of the list of results.
  • To view access options for an article, click on the Access Options drop down:
    • If the full text of the article is available, select Online Full Text, Linked Text, or PDF (depending on what is available for that article).
    • If the full text is not available, you can select the Check for Full Text button. This will allow you to search in other databases or request it through Interlibrary Loan. 
  • If only one version of the full text is available, you may see a "Access Now" button, which will bring you directly to the full text of the article.

CINAHL Search Results page; the number of results, sort option dropdown, and an access options dropdown are highlighted

Linking to an Article

To get the link for an article you've found in CINAHL:

  • Using your device's copy function, copy the URL from your browser's address bar:

  • Paste the link into your citation or document.