Thursday, July 26, 2007

Modifications to EBSCO nursing databases

In June, EBSCO discontinued individual links to the Clinical Pharmacology database and moved this content to the Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition database. Since APSU does not subscribe to this resource, all links to Clinical Pharmacology have been removed. An alternative resource to find pharmacology information is MICROMEDEX Health Care Series Online.

Pre-CINAHL content has been successfully integrated into the CINAHL with Full Text database. Users will no longer see a separate listing for Pre-CINAHL on the Choose Databases screen in EBSCOhost, and will be able to simply access all of this content through the above-referenced database.

In order to encourage the use of CINAHL subject headings, the combined link to the databases CINAHL with Full Text and Nursing and Allied Health Collection has been separated on the nursing subject page and the medical studies page. When searching both databases simultaneously, links to browse the CINAHL thesaurus and some other features are not available.

The full text journals in the Nursing and allied Health Collection are indexed by CINAHL and should be available when "searching for full text" through Article Linker.

Please let me know if you have questions concerning these modifications.

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