New Library Database: CINAHL Plus Full Text

This is to let you know that the Library has upgraded its subscription to CINAHL to CINAHL Plus Full Text.  Changes have been made to the Databases page and the database information page to reflect this change in name and additional content.  There is an additional entry on the Databases page under Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL Plus Full Text).

CINAHL Plus Full Text is an expanded version of the original CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) database. It provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health, and it also indexes publications of the American Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, and selected journals in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship.  CINAHL Plus Full Text includes the full text for more than 560 journals. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing, and of those, more than 230 are not available with full text from any other EBSCO database. It also contains Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons and includes a Cited References Search screen.

New Library Database: Natural Standard

The Library has initiated a subscription to Natural Standard and it is now listed on the Databases page and the New Databases page.

Natural Standard describes itself as “the authority on integrative medicine.”  Natural Standard (the organization) is an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Using a comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales, information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a multidisciplinary Editorial Board. The mission of this collaboration is to provide objective, reliable information that aids clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions to make more informed and safer therapeutic decisions.

Natural Standard consists of these sections () consists of these sections (“databases”):

• Foods, Herbs & Supplements
• Health & Wellness
• Comparative Effectiveness
• Medical Conditions
• Brand Names
• Interactive Tools

For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team systematically gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion in Natural Standard databases.