Using InfoTrac Web
Health Reference Center Academic

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DESCRIPTION | RECORDS | SEARCHING | LIMITING | VIEWING
MARKING or TAGGING | PRINTING | DOWNLOADING
RELATED DATABASES | SEARCH THIS DATABASE

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DESCRIPTION

Health Reference Center indexes 205 medical journals and consumer health magazines; Full Text of more than 150 of these titles as well as Full Text of health related articles from 1,500 general interest periodicals. Includes the Full Text of 40 Nursing and Allied Health titles. Full Text of 500 health pamphlets and 6 medical reference books (Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary * Everything You Need to Know About Medical Tests * The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide * The Complete Guide for People with Chronic Illness *USP-DI Volume II: Advice for the Patient; Drug Information in Lay Language * The Consumer Health Information Source Book)

Health Reference Center will not indicate what journals the Pace University Library owns. To check the availability of a periodical for which you only have an abstract or citation, search the library catalog for the title of the journal.

RECORDS
Records in the Health Reference Center database are broken up into fields. These fields are not labeled or readily obvious but they are: Abstract, Author, Date, Journal Name, Key Word, Article Number, Subject, Text Word, Article Title.

SEARCHING
Accessing the Database

1. Go to the Pace University Library homepage at http://www.pace.edu/library/
2. Click on the word Databases.
3. In the pull-down menu that asks you to choose a database, click on the link for Health Reference Center Academic. (This will bring you to the Pace University description page.)
4. Click on the name Health Reference Center Academic from the University description page.
5. Click on the Proceed button on the INFOTRAC title page.

Searching (Health Reference Center Academic defaults to a subject search.)

• Subject search: Type your search terms in the entry box and click on the Search button. The results may be grouped by subjects and sub-headings, which will limit your search. Click on View next to your chosen subheading to see the records.
• Keyword search: Select Keyword search on the left of the page. Break your topic into keywords and type your search terms in the entry box and click on the Search button.

Advanced Searching

Click on Advanced search on the left of the screen to use advanced searching techniques such as searching by Author, Date or specific Journal Title.

• Choose a Select index by clicking on the down arrow next to the search entry box.
• Click on an index name from the pull-down menu.
• Type your search terms in the entry box next to the Index abbreviation that pops into the box. Click on the Search button.
• Try searching more than one index at a time by connecting your search terms with the word and (Example: to find articles by Mary Murphy about blood your search would look like this: au Mary Murphy and su blood). Also, try combining the search sets created by the system using and as well (Ex: R1 and R2).

Follow the below directions to view, mark, print, or e-mail your results.

LIMITING (Can be done at the beginning of a search or the middle)
You can limit a search at the beginning search screen by type of publication, date or journal.

VIEWING

After your search is performed, you are placed at the top of a list of citations. Citations, some abstracts and selected full text articles are available for viewing. Click on the word View to see a full citation, abstract or full text article (depending on what is available).

Move through the list of citations using the down arrow button or the scroll bar. The database shows you 20 citations at a time. To see the next 20 citations, click the arrow button next to the number of total citations. To move to the end of the list, click the right arrow with the vertical line.

MARKING or TAGGING

• Mark records by clicking in the Mark box to the left of each citation.
• Or you may "Select all items on this page" by marking the box to the right. This is located above the first citation on each page.
• When you are through marking your records, click on the View mark list button at the left of your screen to view your list of marked records.
• From the View mark list, you may print all your marked records by clicking on Print on the left of your screen. Then use the Print command in your browser.
• Note: To save marked records from search to search, view your Mark List, then click Keep checked.
  

PRINTING and EMAILING Records

• To print an individual article or citation, click on Print on the left of your screen.
• Click on Reformat the article under the Browser Print option.
• Then print your selection using the Print command in your browser.
  
• For email, click on E-mail or Retrieval on the left of your screen.
• Enter your entire email address and a subject or description.
• Click on submit E-mail request.
• Remember that this will mail full-text only and you will lose all graphics in doing so. If the item is extended citation or abstract only, that is what you will receive in your email.
  
• To print an article with all graphics as they appear in the original article, you need to have Adobe Acrobat loaded on your computer.
• Viewing articles this way will take up a great deal of memory and might cause printing problems.
• If that happens, try printing the article two pages at a time rather than all at once.
  

DOWNLOADING

• To save a batch of marked records, click on the View mark list on the left of your screen to see your marked records.
• Click where it says Reformat to see the citations, abstracts or full text of all your marked selections all at once.
  

1. To save these records (or an individual record), click on File (near the top left of your screen).
2. Click on Save as…
3. Select the a:/ drive.
4. Name your file and be sure to select Plain Text (.txt) from the Save File as Type menu.
5. Click OK.

Note: You must perform both these steps or it will save the articles as HTML Source Code, which your word processing program at home may not be able to open or read.

RELATED DATABASES

Click here to see related Nursing/Medicine Databases. Remember that some general databases (such as Periodical Abstracts Research II) are very strong on this subject as well.

SEARCH THIS DATABASE

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