Health Reference
Center Academic
provides access to the full text of 40 nursing and
allied health journals and the wide variety of
personal health information sources in InfoTrac's
award-winning Health
Reference Center.
Health Reference Center Academic
integrates the full text and images of respected
nursing, allied health and medical journals;
consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets;
newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference
books.
(Please note that Health
Reference Center Academic
may be searched simultaneously with several
InfoTrac databases by using
Gale PowerSearch).
You may access Health Reference Center Academic
from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.
How To Search Health Reference
Center Academic
SEARCH TYPES:
There are 4 search types: basic, subject guide, publication, and
advanced.
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In an
advanced search,
there are 3 search boxes (you can add more rows) where you enter
terms that relate to your research topic.
There are pull-down menus where you
select the ‘index’ to search. The default is Keyword, but there are
many to choose from, including author, subject, document title,
person, word count, etc.
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In a
basic search, there is a single box
where you can enter terms that relate to your research topic. Search
for terms as keywords (in article titles, subjects, abstracts), as
subjects, or as full text (anywhere in article). Example: drunk
driving.
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In a
subject guide search,
the term(s) you enter in the search box are mapped against an online
thesaurus and relevant matches are displayed. If you type the words
DUI or DWI or drunk driving in a subject guide search, you will see
that the preferred term is driving
while intoxicated.
Often you will see subdivisions and
related subjects to browse through.
Subdivisions target more specific
aspects of a subject; e.g., case studies, forecasts and trends,
prevention, public opinion, research, social policy, statistics.
Related subjects are classified into broader or narrower terms.
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In a
publication search,
you look for articles from a known publication; e.g., Time or
Newsweek. You see coverage dates and a listing of available issues
to browse. You can also limit a search by publication title(s).
Wildcards: An asterisk (*) stands
for any number of characters, including none, and is especially
useful when you want to find all words that share the same root. A
single question mark ?stands for exactly one character (wom?n to
match women or woman) while multiple question marks stand for an
equivalent number of characters. An exclamation point (!) stands for
one or no characters and is especially useful when you want to match
the singular and plural of a word but not other forms or, when used
inside a word, to match certain variant spellings. For example,
colo!r matches both
color (American)
and
colour
(British).
SEARCH RESULTS:
Results are organized into tab groups
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content areas that contain similar
types of documents.
There are 4 tabs: Magazines & Journals,
Reference, News (from newspapers and newswires), and Multimedia. Not
every tab may contain items.
VIEW, MARK, PROCESS RESULTS:
Your search results display in reverse publication date order,
although they can be sorted by relevance instead.
The basic bibliographic information,
full text indicator (full-text, full-text with graphics , abstract,
citation) and document type (article, brief article, book review,
author abstract, case note, column, cover story, editorial,
interview, obituary) are listed.. Records display in MLA format.
You can mark those articles you want to retain and then print,
e-mail, download
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