Nutrition: Finding Articles

You can search ten databases with medical content in a single search.

Interactive tutorial on using the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, stressing the most useful features for the Nursing program. Includes a quiz that will allow a student to print or download a graded certificate which they can submit to show that they have completed the tutorial.

Gives instructions on using CINAHL search capabilities to find articles for evidence-based nursing (5 minutes, 53 seconds)

Interactive tutorial will introduce searching in Medline via PubMed, the use of various filters to focus your search, finding the text of the articles, and the use of the Medical Subject Headings.
At the end of the tutorial you will be able to take a brief self-test and download a certificate showing that you have completed the tutorial.

Using the MeSH Subject Browser gives the best results for most searches.

Shows how to use article type to limit to evidence-based articles