Research Tips & Techniques Guide

Limiters are found on the Advanced Search and Results pages and include:

• full text

• peer reviewed

• scholarly

• academic research

• publication date

• source type

• language

• subject

• document type

Field Limiters are  applied when setting up the search and are used to:

• target literature reviews

• find specific author, publication, date

• limit by author-written abstract

• for other options

CINAHL has special limiters that include: 

• age
• gender
• first author is a nurse
• a range of others in the biomedical sciences and nursing