Tuesday, February 3, 2009

News from Ebsco about Pre-CINAHL and CINAHL

We are pleased to announce that we have incorporated the content in the Pre-CINAHL database with our CINAHL products to streamline your search experience. Pre-CINAHL was intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and included a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which was available to searchers only for the time when these articles were being assigned additional indexing. This enabled users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not have been available. These early article citations are now part of all CINAHL products.

This update means that:

All of the records you wish to access in Pre-CINAHL can be searched in your subscribed CINAHL product
If you wish to exclude these records in your CINAHL product search, you can use the “Exclude Pre-CINAHL” search limiter
Therefore, on March 31, 2009 we will discontinue the Pre-CINAHL database as a stand-alone product. On that date, Pre-CINAHL, alone, will no longer be accessible to you. Please delete or change any links you may have created to this product.

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