Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
- CINAHL and all other EBSCOhost databases will be migrated to a new user interface in July 2025. To learn more, visit The New EBSCOhost Interface Quick Start Guide
Coverage: 1981 to the present
NOTE: CINAHL will migrate to a new user interface in July 2025.
CINAHL indexes almost 3,000 journals covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines (e.g. respiratory technology, x-ray technology, etc.). Also indexed are: health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Full-text is included for some journals as well as legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Pre-CINAHL refers to records that are not yet 100% indexed. These records are in process and do not have subject headings applied.
Provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.