Structured searching for health students (using CINAHL and other databases)

Advantages of creating a personal account 

You can open CINAHL and search without having to create a personal account but you need to create a personal account in order to:

• Save searches (which you can retrieve and re-run later).
• Save articles – so you don’t have to look through the full set of results each time you run a search.
• Create folders, so you can organise your saved articles.

The username and password you create is personal to you. If you forget your password you will need to Reset it.

Creating an account (and resetting your password)

The video and written guidance below explains how to create an account and re-set a password in the EBSCO databases.

Saving and re-running a search

The video and written guidance below explains how to save and re-run a search in the EBSCO databases.

Re-running a search across more than one database

This short video explains how to retrieve a saved search and run it across more than one of the EBSCO databases (e.g. CINAHL and Medline) at the same time.

Saving items and adding them into folders

The video and written guidance below explains how to save items and add them into folders in the EBSCO databases.

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