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1. Go to the CINAHL Subject Headings tab.

2. Enter one search term only (this type of search will be built one term at a time). For the options below the search box,

• Term Begins With = Displays the terms in alphabetical order:
• Term Contains = The term searched for appears first, followed by terms displayed in alphabetical order:
• Relevancy Ranked = The exact match for the term appears first followed by terms displayed in order of relevance.

3. Select the most appropriate choice from the search results.

4. When you select your subject heading, another list of suggested subheadings will appear. Check the boxes of any desired subheadings if you want to be more specific in your search.
5. As you select terms on the left, the subject headings are added to the Search Term Builder box on the right of your screen.

Using the Explode and Major Concept features

These options are both checkboxes next to the subject heading(s) you've chosen.

• When you "Explode" a term, CINAHL looks at every subject heading and narrower subject term that is indexed to the original term. 
• "Major Concept" finds only records for which the subject heading is a major point of the article. 

Running Your Search

1. To add more terms to your search, go to the bottom of the screen and select Browse Additional Terms.
2. When the search is fully built and you are ready, click "Search Database" to execute the search.

1. Once you have run a search in CINAHL, click on the title of the article for which you'd like to see similar articles.
2. On the left hand side, click on "Find Similar Articles."

3. CINAHL will use its smart text algorithm to analyze the text and return results based on that text.

CINAHL offers evidence-based care sheets — concise summaries of many conditions and their treatment. To search for these exclusively, click on the "Evidence-Based Care Sheets" tab at the top of the screen.

You can browse through all of their EBP care sheets or enter a search term to find a specific topic.

These care sheets give an overview of a condition (What We Know), as well as common treatment approaches for healthcare providers (What We Can Do).

When you build your search, if you select the "Full-text "option on the limiters, then all the produced articles should have accompanying full text. 

Search results will usually have the option to read the resource in your browser (HTML Full Text) or to download it as a PDF (PDF Full Text).

If you did not select the "Full-text" option in the limiters, then you may have some citation results that do not have the accompanying full text. In this case, where there is no full text available directly from  CINAHL, you should select the "Find It @ TWU" option. This will take you to a search for the title in TWUniversal.

Here you can see that TWU has the full text for the desired article through the Elsevier ScienceDirect Complete Freedom Collection database. Click on the link to the database to be taken to the full text.

If TWU does not have direct access to the full text, then you can submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Request. The link for this is provided on the bottom of the page.

Single Title

1. Select the "Export" icon to the right of the resource information.

2. Select "Direct Export to RefWorks" from the Export Manager menu.

3. Click on "Yes, export to the newest version of RefWorks" in the newly opened window.
4. Sign into RefWorks, if necessary.
5. Choose the folder where you'd like to save the citation, and click on "Import."

Multiple Citations

1. Select the article you wish to save to RefWorks by clicking on the folder icon to the right of the citations in your search results (see figure 1). You can also click on "Add to folder" on the article detail page.
2. The articles you have select will be stored in a folder (see figure 2). Click on this folder when you have all the articles you wish to select.

3. In the stored folder, reselect the articles you want to export to RefWorks and click on the Export icon to the right.

4. This will take you to the same Export Manager menu as shown above.
5. Select either "Direct Export in RIS Format" or "Direct Export to RefWorks." Note: The more citations you're exporting to RefWorks, the better it will be if you download an RIS file to upload to RefWorks.
6. If you choose the "Direct Export to RefWorks," the directions are the same as a single article export, above.
7. If you choose the "Direct Export in RIS Format," this will create a file (which by default will save to your computer's Downloads folder). You will now need to upload the saved file to RefWorks.

In RefWorks

1. Click on the "Add+" icon.
2. Click on "Import references."
3. Click on "Select a file from your computer" and find your upload file in your Downloads folder.
4. Click on "Import" to start loading the citations into RefWorks.

To learn more about using RefWorks, visit its page in this guide under Citation Managers.

1. Create a personal account by clicking "Sign in" at the top of the page.
2. Use the link to "Sign up" and set up your profile. If you already have an account, simply log in.  
3. Enter your search.
4. Click on the "Share" button located above the search results.
5. Click on the link for "Email Alert."
6. On the pop-up screen that appears you can set up how frequently to receive alerts on the search you are saving. 
7. To access your saved searches in the future, click on the "Folder" icon located next to the "Sign in"/"Sign out" icon. Click on "Saved Searches" located on the left hand side of the page.
8.  The retrieved search or alert can either be rerun, edited, or deleted.