CINAHL Insights

What is CINAHL?

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a comprehensive database of nursing and allied health literature. It provides indexing and abstracts for a wide range of journals, books, and other resources relevant to nurses, allied health professionals, and researchers. It is commonly used for literature reviews, evidence-based practice, and research in these fields.

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What other technologies are related to CINAHL?

CINAHL Competitor Technologies

Embase

Embase is a biomedical database that indexes a wide range of international biomedical literature, including many European journals not covered by Medline. It competes with CINAHL in providing access to research relevant to healthcare professionals.

mentioned alongside CINAHL in 14% (99) of relevant job posts

PubMed

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. While not specifically nursing and allied health, it covers a broad range of medical literature relevant to these fields, acting as a competitor to CINAHL.

mentioned alongside CINAHL in 7% (179) of relevant job posts

Medline

MEDLINE is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. It is a key competitor to CINAHL as it contains a significant overlap in relevant literature.

mentioned alongside CINAHL in 9% (65) of relevant job posts

CINAHL Complementary Technologies

EndNote

EndNote is a reference management software that helps researchers organize, store, and cite references. It is a complementary tool to CINAHL, as researchers can use EndNote to manage the articles they find in CINAHL.

mentioned alongside CINAHL in 1% (76) of relevant job posts