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Health and Wellness Resource Centre

Health and Wellness Resource Centre. Contents. Introduction to Health and Wellness Resource Centre Content Coverage Simple Searching (main search dialog box) Subjects Linking Print, Email, Mark Records Title Annotations Advanced Searching : by indexes InfoMarks. From this. To this.

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Health and Wellness Resource Centre

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  1. Health and Wellness Resource Centre

  2. Contents .. • Introduction to Health and Wellness Resource Centre • Content Coverage • Simple Searching (main search dialog box) • Subjects • Linking • Print, Email, Mark Records • Title Annotations • Advanced Searching : by indexes • InfoMarks

  3. From this...

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  5. What is a Resource Center? • A world of Information, Internet links, and Interactive programs • A platform for special interest modules • Alternative Health • Healthcare Management • Nursing & Allied Health Science • Mental Health

  6. Introduction to Health and Wellness Resource Centre • Consumer Health Focus • Designed to answer health related questions in a public library setting • Database bringing many forms of content together in one place - more than just periodicals • Search across all data types in a single search

  7. Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine PDR for Herbal Medicines PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies Expanded Commission E Monographs Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information Sourcebook Alternative & Complementary Therapies Alternative Health Practitioner Alternative Medicine Review Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine British Homeopathic Journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies Content Coverage <Reference..>

  8. Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies Journal of Chinese Medicine Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy Lawrence Review of Natural Products Massage Therapy Journal Midwifery Today Planta Medica Spectrum Topics in Clinical Chiropractic Vegetarian Voice Content Coverage <Reference..>

  9. Content Coverage <..Periodicals> • Nearly 400 health/medical journals and hundreds ofpamplets • 2,200 general interest publications

  10. Quick Search • HWRC takes on the roll of a comprehensive health ‘home page’ with AUTHORITATIVE material from a wide range of sources • All content can be searched by means of ‘Quick search’

  11. Quick Search Information displayed in tabs according to source Clickable related topics

  12. Search individual components Medical Encyclopedia Drug and her finder Medical dictionary Health news Alternate health encyclopedia

  13. Medical Encyclopedia Search Gale’s Encyclopedia of Medicine

  14. Drug and Herb finder Search • The PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs. • The PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs. • PDR Family Guide to Women's Health and Prescription Drugs

  15. Health News • Ability to browse or search through the latest topical information from well circulated newspapers

  16. Demo Type in search term – click on “Search”

  17. NB: Tabs: Reference, Magazines, etc – all in bold therefore references retrieved in each section

  18. Full text reference See Table of Contents Can print/email

  19. Under Magazines/Journals 10112 references retrieved. To limit see side panel: Asthma:Narrow by subdivision – click on this

  20. References limited to adverse & side effects. • Mark references you require

  21. After marking references on page click on Update mark list – do this on every page – then click View

  22. All the marked references are now listed together. • If full text click on title

  23. Full text article. • Print/email

  24. References retrieved on asthma under section: Pharmacy

  25. You can also limit your search by clicking on Revise Search

  26. You can now mark the blocks according to how you wish to limit your search: • Full text • Refereed publications • Date You could also click on Advanced Search for more functions

  27. Can now search term/s in specific fields. • Use boolean operators to combine terms • Limit to: fulltext; refereed publications; date

  28. Created by Gale Group and M Brassel, University of Pretoria ENJOY SEARCHING !

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