CINAHL® provides indexing for 2,960 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,250 journals are also included. Full-text material includes 71 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

If The CINAHL Database is of interest, the following items may be of interest as well:

• British Nursing Index
• CINAHL® with Full Text
• CINAHL® Plus
• CINAHL® Plus with Full Text
• Health Source^®: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Nursing Reference Center™