Posts Tagged ‘CINAHL’

Reformulating RSS feeds created off-campus in JEFFLINE databases

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Many of the literature databases available through JEFFLINE such as Scopus, CINAHL, and PubMed for Jeffersonians offer RSS feeds. These allow you to subscribe to your own custom searches in the reader of your choice.

However, if you’re off campus, the databases will provide a proxied URL that your reader won’t understand. Simply cut out that portion before you paste the address into your reader. For example, here’s the beginning of a feed I just created in PubMed. Delete the bold section to get a reader-friendly address:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.proxy1.lib.tju.edu:2048/entrez/…

becomes:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/…

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EBSCOhost updates

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

EBSCOhost, Jefferson’s platform for CINAHL and SPORTDiscus, announced several minor changes in response to user feedback.

  • Direct link to the Basic Search Screen from both the Basic and Advanced Search Screens
  • Keyword renamed New Search
  • Result List mouse over text changed from Refine Search to Search Modes and Limiters
  • Entire phrase for cited references on Result List replaces the number of references in parentheses
  • Search mode specified on Result List green bar
  • Search History View Results anchor positioning improved
  • Additional Help link added to Choose Databases Screen

    • Coming soon: EBSCOhost Mobile will be a true wireless access interface for all EBSCOhost databases. What changes would you like to see?

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    Do you use CINAHL’s “cite this” for APA style?

    Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

    CINAHL now has a “cite this” button that provides a citation to an article in six popular styles including APA. Unfortunately, it’s incorrectly adding specific dates when the volume is specified. (For those of you following along at home see rule 4.11, p.227 in the Publication Manual.) The problem has been reported to EBSCO. In the meantime make sure to check the form of date it generates.

    In this example since Nursing Times caries volume information do not include the month and day.

    Tweddell, L. (2008, July 15). How NT won the training campaign. Nursing Times, 104(28), 18-21. Retrieved October 22, 2008, from CINAHL database.

    RefWorks handles this example successfully.

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