CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,737 journals and contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1937 including information on nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative medicine, consumer health, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters and other allied health disciplines. Full text of more than 620 journals and 218 books is included with coverage dating back to 1937.