support.ebsco.com CINAHL with Full Text Advanced Searching – Guided Style Tutorial

Welcome to EBSCO’s Advanced Searching tutorial, featuring CINAHL with Full Text, the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals. In this tutorial, you will learn how to perform an Advanced search, as well as how to combine multiple searches using the Search History.

We’ll begin by searching for catheter infections, selecting the Full Text limiter. Enter the term in the Find field, select your limiters, and click Search.

Searching for subject terms can also be useful. The CINAHL Editorial staff has assigned subject terms based on article content, resulting in more relevant results when you click the Suggest Subject Terms box above the Find field. Check the Suggest Subject Terms box, then enter search terms in the Find field, and click Search.

You can also click on the CINAHL Headings link along the top toolbar to browse for appropriate subject terms. For more information on searching using subject headings, see the “Using CINAHL/MeSH Headings” tutorial on the EBSCO Support Site.

A result list is displayed. The search can be seen in the Search History/Alerts window by clicking the Search History link. This search can be further modified by using the Limiters available in the left column under Refine your results. In this search, we want to restrict our results to catheter infections in the urinary tract.

We click on New Search to clear our Search screen as well as any limiters we may have selected, so we can create a new search on urinary infections. After completing the search on urinary infections, we will combine it, using our Search History, with our search of Catheter Infections. Enter urinary infections in the Find field and click Search.

The search is added to the Search History. The next step is to combine this search statement with search statement S1, which is the full text search on Catheter Infections. To combine the searches, check the box to the left of each search and select a button to combine the searches. We’ll click Search with AND for results which contain both search terms.

The result list is refreshed to reflect the combined search. The new search is also added to your Search History.

The Search History is displayed with the results below. This search can be further refined by selecting options from the Refine Your Results column on the left. The Show More link provides additional limiters which can further refine your search.

Frequently used limiters include Research Article, Evidence-Based Practice, and Age Groups. After selecting any desired limiters, click Search.

The result list is displayed. Note the Options set indicator, which reflects that limiters have been selected.

The Search History reflects all of our search statements and each search statement provides the terms and limiters searched, as well as the number of results retrieved. Click the Edit link on any line of your search history to modify the search terms, limiters, and expanders. This is useful when further modification of the search statement is needed.

At any time, click on the Help link to view the complete online help system.