 Hi, my name is Hannah and I am the Health Sciences and Professions Librarian. Today, I'm going to walk you through how to access articles in SINAL. SINAL is one of the main databases for nursing and allied health research. You connect to SINAL by starting at the library's website, library.ohiou.edu, and then clicking on the green tab here in the middle of the home screen that says Databases. As we know what database we are looking for, we can type in the title. However, if you forget the spelling or name, you can always search by subject. In this case, health slash medicine, and you can find SINAL there. You will need to connect to SINAL, especially if you're off campus, and it will prompt you to log in with your same username and password that you use for Blackboard and Catmail. This ensures you get access to all the full text articles that the library pays for. SINAL may look familiar to you if you have searched articles plus before. They both come from the same interface. Something I particularly appreciate about SINAL is that it prompts you to break down your topic into concepts right off the bat. Remember, you do not want to search full sentences if you're searching for articles. Okay, let's say I'm interested in patient education strategies and best practices for heart failure patients. So I type in heart failure and patient education. I could include best practices or perhaps the concept guidelines, but I like to start simple and then narrow it down bit by bit. Let's see what we get with these two concepts. From here, we have several options to narrow down the results before we add other words to our search bars. First, you will see on the left options to limit to full text. Do not do this. If you select this option, you will actually lose the library's full text finder, so you do not want to do that. Next, you have evidence-based practice, which will try to locate higher levels of evidence for you based on your topics. And next is the filter for scholarly peer review academic research articles. If you click this, conference proceedings, patient handouts, and trade magazines will disappear from your results. So let's click that. That eliminated a couple hundred. Often you will be asked that your articles were recently published, perhaps the last ten years. We can change that publication date from 2011 to 2016 if you want the last five years. We can do this by either typing it in or sliding the bar. That made a huge difference. There are other filters as you scroll down, so please experiment with these later. The last thing I want to point out is how to get full text. Remember the full text finder I mentioned before? That is the blue-green symbol you see to the right of the PDF symbol. If you scroll down, you will see some articles that do not have a PDF option. That is when you click on the full text finder to get access to the full text of this article. And there may be a couple options because the library rocks. Okay, that's all for now. Let us know if you have additional questions. You can chat directly with the library from Send All Results or talk to your subject librarian.