- CINAHL stands for the Cumulated Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature. It is owned and produced by EBSCO Publishing Inc.
- The database has more than one million records that cover English language nursing journal articles and NLN and ANA publications from 1982 to the present.
- The database also indexes book chapters. dissertations, evidence based care sheets, audio-visuals, and journals from 17 allied health disciplines.
- CINAHL added the articles' bibliographies in 1994 so you can do cited reference searching.