Transcript African Healthline - Department of Library Services

African Healthline
Academic Information Service
What you need to start
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On campus:
– Library registration (at library counter)
– Network registration (at library counter)
– Ask for training sessions if you still feel
uncomfortable searching African Healthline
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Off campus:
– Library registration
Background
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The premier collection of bibliographic
databases on African health issues
 Unique collection of sources including
many from Africa and covering all aspects
of African health issues.
 Covering years since 1966
 Quarterly updates
 More than 700 000 records
Down to search basics
 Boolean
operators
 Truncation symbols
 Searching words next to each other
BOOLEAN LOGIC
AND / OR / NOT
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OR
AIDS
Education
Programmes
BOOLEAN LOGIC
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AND
AIDS
Education
AND Programmes
BOOLEAN LOGIC
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NOT
Not
Eductation
Programmes
AIDS
Truncation symbols
Use the * after the ROOT of the word to pick
up different forms of the word
 Eg:
 Program*
To include:
• Programmer
• Programming
• Programs
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Searching words next to each other
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Adjacent (adj)
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Eg: AIDS adj education* adj program*
How do I access African Healthline
Go to Medical Library Home Page:
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/med/med.htm
Click on Health
Databases
Click on African
Healthline
Select database
Searching
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Title Field: words in article title
 Keyword Field: broader search
 Index Field: words as printed in article –
can be very specific and limiting
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NB: We recommend to start searching
words/phrases in the title field
Searching words in title
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Example demo search: (AIDS or Acquired adj Immunodeficiency adj
Syndrome) and (Education* adj Program*)
Click on “search”
Type in search
terms using
Boolean logic and
truncation
Search results
Total no of records
retrieved
Back to Search
Page
Select output for e-mail, save or print
Use dropdown
menu to select
output
Mark records individually
or click button before email or printing
Display format for browsing
references
Use
dropdown
menu to
select format
Narrow search down to “South
Africa”
The phrase “south africa” must be searched in the
“INDEX FIELD”
 The “index field” is then automatically combined
with the words/phrases searched in the “Title or
Keyword Fields”
 The different fields are automatically combined
with the AND operator – invisible to the user
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Title and Index fields combined
By adding “South Africa” in Index
Field : 10 references retrieved
Click here to
see
references
Search using “Keyword Field”
(Broader search)
42 refs now retrieved instead
of 10
Keywords
combined
with Index
Search an index
Type in
search term
and click on
“index”
View index
Mark relevant
terms and click on
search
View results
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Fewer references : NB Not yet narrowed down to “South
Africa”
Adjust blue bar to
view results below
Select display/output format
Use dropdown
menu to select
and display
Mark your preferences for display and
output format
Mark records before printing or
email or click on mark all at
bottom of page
LOGOUT
•As we only have 5 simultaneous licences
•Therefore on completion of search please click on LOGOUT
Click here to
Logout
FEEL WELCOME TO ASK
FOR HELP
Created by Myleen Oosthuizen and Anneline Viljoen
September 2005