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For researchers of nursing, healthcare and allied health sciences, DataStar holds the key to the major periodicals, trade journals, government publications, websites, pamphlets and books on patient care, evidence-based medicine and cost-effective healthcare. Three databases specialize in nursing practice, education, research and development. These files include EMCare® (EMCA) from Elsevier, B.V., British Nursing Index® (BNID) from a partnership of U.K. nursing libraries, and Cinahl® (NAHL) from Cinahl Information Systems.

Database	EMCare (EMCA)	British Nursing Index (BNID)	Cinahl (NAHL)¹
Content	2,022,600+ records 2,500 journals 1,300 journals unique to EMCare Many titles not covered by EMBASE, MEDLINE or Cinahl Covers about 67% of journals that are in Cinahl	126,000+ records 250+ journals, mostly specialist British nursing periodicals	1,393,000+ records 1,200+ publications
Availability	Transactional and annual license	Transactional and annual license	Annual license only
Updates	Weekly	Monthly	Weekly
Strengths	Cover-to-cover journal coverage Articles indexed within 15 days of receipt EMTREE indexing — over 54,000 preferred terms, including nursing terminology Author contact information provided Drug and device trade names, manufacturers	The premier database for U.K. nurses Hierarchical thesaurus recently updated Tightly focused sources Collaboration by partnership of librarians serving nursing and midwifery practitioners	Thesaurus adapted from the MeSH index Cited references back to 1994 Selected fulltext and images 72 Publication Types searchable on PT= includes journal article, book, proceedings, tables-charts, website
Coverage	1995+ (cover-to-cover)	1994+	1982+

Database

EMCare (EMCA)

British Nursing Index (BNID)

Cinahl (NAHL)¹

Subjects include

Nursing and allied health
Clinical specialties relating to nursing
Evidenced-based healthcare
Nursing education
Drug administration
Health care economics
Hospice, palliative care

Nursing and allied health
Clinical specialties relating to nursing
Evidence-based healthcare
Nursing education
Nurse practitioner
Midwifery
Perinatal and neonatal mortality

Nursing and allied health
Clinical specialties relating to nursing
Nursing education
Hospice, palliative care
Health care economics

Journal Samplings

Advances in Nursing Science

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Critical Care Nursing

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

Infection and Critical Care

Journal of Trauma Injury Prehospital Emergency Care

Supportive Care in Cancer

Age and Ageing

British Journal of Midwifery

Diabetic Medicine European Journal of Palliative Care

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Nursing Management USA

Nursing Times

Professional Nurse

Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal

American Journal of Kidney Disease

Annals of Neurology

Clinical Times

The Cochrane Library

Emergency Medical Services

Journal of Research in Nursing

State Boards of Nursing (by state)

¹Access to Cinahl on DataStar is currently restricted to customers already holding an annual license to the NAHL database.

Why use DataStar for Nursing and Healthcare Research?

Save time by researching nursing information all in one place. DataStar offers a comprehensive content collection with powerful features that make information retrieval easy, fast and effortlessly presentable. DataStar gives you the power to browse the index using thesaurus mapping, to search with precision on specific fields and to save your results in PDF, RTF, HTML , XML, TXT or .RIS (for direct download into Reference Manager® , EndNote® or ProCite® . Once you have honed search criteria that bring you dynamic results you can save your strategies and set up current awareness Alerts to deliver citations to your desktop on a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis.

Complementary Biomedical Resources in DataStar

DataStar offers comprehensive coverage of all areas of biomedical research and clinical practice. Nursing databases may be searched in combination with core biomedical databases, such as MEDLINE® (MEDL), EMBASE® (EMED), BIOSIS Previews® (BIOL), Allied and Complementary Medicine™ (AMED), PsycINFO® (PSYC), and SciSearch® (SCIN/SSCI), each indexing and abstracting thousands of journals. With DataStar you can click on a link directly to the fulltext of your electronic journal subscriptions or you can move directly to the fulltext, such as the fulltext of Evidence-Based Nursing in the Evidence-Based Medicine Journals database (EBMJ), when available in other databases.

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