CINAHL

{{Short description|Database of nursing and health literature}}

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| producer = EBSCO

| country = United States

| history = 1961–present

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| providers = EBSCO

| cost = subscription

| disciplines = nursing and allied health

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| formats = journal articles

| temporal = 1937–present

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| web = {{URL|https://www.ebscohost.com/nursing/products/cinahl-databases/the-cinahl-database|ebscohost.com/cinahl}}

| titles = {{URL|https://www.ebsco.com/title-lists}}

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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare.{{cite web |url=http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/40.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030302044010/http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/40.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-03-02 |title=CINAHL Database, The |access-date=2007-09-19 |publisher=Ovid Technologies, Inc }}

Ella Crandall, Mildred Grandbois, and Mollie Sitner began a card index of articles from nursing journals in the 1940s. The index was first published as Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature (CINL) in 1961. The title changed to Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature in 1977 when its scope was expanded to include allied health journals. The index first went online in 1984.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinahl.com/about/about.htm |title=History Then and Now |access-date=2008-04-01 |work=Cinahl Information Systems |publisher=EBSCO Industries, Inc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229125212/http://www.cinahl.com/about/about.htm |archive-date=2008-02-29 |url-status=dead }}

The publisher, Cinahl Information Systems, was acquired by EBSCO Publishing in 2003.

CINAHL has been provided on the Web by EBSCO Publishing, Ovid Technologies and ProQuest, in addition to Cinahl Information Systems, and also provided online by DataStar from Dialog.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinahl.com/prodsvcs/prodsvcs.htm |title=Products & Services |access-date=2008-04-19 |work=Cinahl Information Systems |publisher=EBSCO Industries, Inc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229125903/http://www.cinahl.com/prodsvcs/prodsvcs.htm |archive-date=2008-02-29 |url-status=dead }} In 2006, EBSCO announced its intention to not renew the distribution agreements with the other providers and to make CINAHL available exclusively on the EBSCOhost platform.{{cite web |url=http://www.ebsco.com/home/whatsnew/platform_cinahl.asp |title=EBSCOhost to be the Only Platform for CINAHL and SPORTDiscus Databases |publisher=EBSCO Information Services |date=2006-04-06 |access-date=2008-05-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704055843/http://www.ebsco.com/home/whatsnew/platform_cinahl.asp |archive-date=2008-07-04 }}