During 2007, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) will be available to CSU staff and students via Ovid (as CINAHL) and also via EBSCOhost (as CINAHL Plus with Full Text). From 2008 onwards, it will be available only via EBSCOhost.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is actually a combination of 3 databases: CINAHL Plus with Full Text, CINAHL Select, and PreCINAHL. It provides the CINAHL index to journals in the areas of nursing and allied health, but also provides the full-text of more than 560 of these journals. Other resources that are indexed include: legal cases, drug records, clinical trials, professional publications, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and Evidence-Based Care Sheets.
While the traditional CINAHL includes material dating from 1982, CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes material going back to 1937. The database is updated weekly.