CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about
nursing,
allied health,
biomedicine and
healthcare.
Ella Crandall,
Mildred Grandbois, and
Mollie Sitner began a card index of articles from nursing journals in the 1940s. The index was first published as ''Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature'' (CINL) in 1961. The title changed to ''Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature'' in 1977 when its scope was expanded to include allied health journals. The index first went online in 1984.
The publisher, Cinahl Information Systems, was acquired by
EBSCO Publishing in 2003.
[
CINAHL has been provided on the Web by EBSCO Publishing, Ovid Technologies and ]ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest is known for its applications and information services for libraries, provid ...
, in addition to Cinahl Information Systems, and also provided online by DataStar from Dialog.
See also
*List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific an ...
References
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External links
CINAHL at EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Industries
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Nursing journals