DESCRIPTION

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to nearly 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals. This product also includes Clinical Pharmacology and Stedman's Medical Dictionary - providing users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

RECORDS

Records in the Health Source: Nursing/Academic database are broken up into fields and are labeled including Title, Source (complete citation information including publication title, volume and issue number and date), Author, and Abstract. To see the full record for an item, click on its title from your Results List. 

SEARCHING
Health Source: Nursing/Academic automatically starts you in an Advanced search. This method gives you many options for building and limiting your search. 

1. To begin your search, type the key word or phrase that best describes your topic. You will automatically search the Default Fields. 
   • NOTE: To search for an exact phrase, enter your phrase in quotation marks:
         For example: "cardiac arrest" 
2. If your topic encompasses more than one concept, break it into keywords and then connect using Boolean Operators. Try the following: 
   • To focus a search, enter the terms connecting them with the word AND:
         For example: cancer and colon
   • To broaden a search, connect similar concepts or words with the word OR:
         For example: (cardiac arrest or myocardial infarction or heart attack) and (obesity or weight)

Limiting Your Search

• To limit your search to only scholarly or peer-reviewed titles, click in the box next to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" 
• To limit your search to a certain date range, enter the appropriate month and year in the Published Date boxes. 
• To search only words in the Title field of an article, select TI Article Title from the drop-down menu, then enter your search terms in the text box; 
• To search only names in the Author field of an article, select AU Author from the drop-down menu, then enter the last name of the author in the text box; 
• To browse articles in a particular journal, select SO Journal Name from the drop-down menu, then enter the title of the journal in the text box; 
• To search only words in the Subject Headings assigned to an article select SU Subject from the drop-down menu, then enter the Subject in the text box. (remember that these must be the official assigned headings in this database - see Subjects below for more info);

When you are done building your search, click on the grey Search button. 

NOTE: Steadman's Medical Dictionary can be searched by clicking on the Medical Dictionary button on the green button bar.

SUBJECTS (Using Subject Headings) 

• Performing a Subjects search will help you to determine the official vocabulary used in the Health Source: Nursing/Academic database. 
• Click on the Subjects button at the top of the screen.
• In the box labeled "Browse for" enter in the term or phrase you would like to search for. 
• Click on the Browse button to the right of the box. 
• If your search term or phrase is an official subject heading, you will see options to View periodical references. If the database refers you to a different term or phrase, the official vocabulary term or phrase will be a link. 
  • For example, a search on "pain management" retrieves the following: 
        PAIN MANAGEMENT
       Use: PAIN -- TREATMENT
  • The official vocabulary for "pain management" is "pain -- treatment" 
• Click on the link for the resulting term to see how many items are available under that subject heading, or explore subdivisions within that subject, or link to related terms. 

VIEWING

• After running a search, the default display shows you a list of brief citations. 
• If the item is available in Full Text or in PDF format, links will be available and you can view the entire item online. 
• If the items is not available online, click on the Check local Holdings link to search the Pace Library Catalog for that publication. Clicking this link will open a separate Browser window. If the Catalog indicates that Pace does have a subscription to the publication, be sure to look closely to see if the date and issue you need is available. 
• Click on the title of an item to see the Full Record display, as is seen here: 

MARKING (Adding Items to the Folder)

1. When viewing the brief citation list, mark a record by clicking on the Add link/folder to the right of the item. 
2. When viewing the full record for an item, mark that record by clicking on the Add to Folder link/folder.
3. To see just your marked records, click on the Folder has X items link, where X is the number of items in the folder.
4. To clear your marked records, view the items in the Folder, then click on the Remove All link. You can remove individual items from the folder by clicking on the individual Remove links. 

PRINTING

1. When viewing the Full Text of item you want to print, click on the Print button located at the top of the article. (When viewing PDF Full Text, use the Adobe Acrobat printer button.)
2. Follow the on-screen prompts to print the item.
3. You can also Print all items in a Folder. When viewing the Folder List, click on the Print link located at the top of the list and follow the on-screen prompts. NOTE: The option to empty the Folder is automatically selected when you choose to Print items in the Folder. 

E-MAILING 

1. When viewing the Full Text or PDF Full Text of an item you want to email, click the Email link at the top of the article. 
2. Complete the form on the next screen, being sure to include your complete email address - for example, jdoe@domain.com. Click the Send button. NOTE: If the full-text of the item you want is NOT available for viewing, it is also NOT available for emailing. You will only receive what is available when viewing the item online from the database. 
3. You can also Email all items in a Folder. When viewing the Folder List, click on the Email link located at the top of the list and follow the on-screen prompts. NOTE: The option to empty the Folder is automatically selected when you choose to EMail items in the Folder. 

DOWNLOADING (Saving to Disk)

• When viewing the Full Text of item you want to Save, click on the Save button located at the top of the article. (When viewing PDF Full Text, use the Adobe Acrobat Save button.) 
• Follow the on-screen prompts to Save the item.
• You can also Save all items in a Folder. When viewing the Folder List, click on the Save to Disk link located at the top of the list and follow the on-screen prompts. NOTE: The option to empty the Folder is automatically selected when you choose to Save items in the Folder. 

RELATED DATABASES

See related Nursing/Medicine Databases.  Remember that some general databases are very strong on this subject as well.  Periodical Abstracts Research II is one such database.

SEARCH THIS DATABASE

Begin searching Health Source: Nursing/Academic.

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Created by Pace University Library
Revised 9/04
Sarah Burns Feyl
sburnsfeyl@pace.edu