Transcript EBSCOhost Interface Enhancements

Health & Nursing
Gold/Galileo Annual Users Group Conference
August 1, 2008
Clean. Powerful. Intuitive.
Health & Nursing Resources
• Health Source: Consumer Edition – Consumer Health
information with full text
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – Full text and
includes Lexi-Pal Drug Guide
• CINAHL with Full Text – Comprehensive source for Nursing &
Allied Health literature (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied
Health)
• MEDLINE with Full Text – Comprehensive source for access to
the biomedical research & clinical literature
• Alt Health Watch – complementary & holistic approaches to
health care & wellness – includes full text
Health Source Consumer
Basic Search
Result List
Narrow Results/Limit Your Results from Result Screen
Results Modified
Selected Exercise (from Narrow Results)
Full Text & Date Limit (from Limit your results)
Medical Dictionary
Check off Box – Search
Retrieve Results
Results from Medical Dictionary “Look Up”
Click on Term – Definition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Search on MRSA (infectious disease)
Limited Results
By Year, Full Text
Drug Look Up – Prozac
Lexi-Pal Drug Guide Record
CINAHL with Full Text
Basic Screen
Basic Search - MRSA
(Note: Ehost is NOT case sensitive)
CINAHL with Full Text
Advanced Search
Suggest Subject Headings Search
CINAHL Headings
List of Subject Headings Relevant to MRSA
Click on Term to See Tree Views and Subheadings
Select item(s); Click Search Database
Items selected – “Explode Term”, Major Concept,
Subheadings
Results
To further Refine Results use Narrow Results or Search
Options
Available Search Options
(Limiters)
Reults Limited to Full Text and Age Group Limiter of
“All Child”
Search History Display
Above the Results List
Search Using Limiters – Leave Find Box Blank
Ex. Search for FT Nursing Research Articles
Search on “Limiters Alone”
Results – FT Nursing Research Articles
Search Cited References
“Find how many times an author has been cited in CINAHL”
Articles by LS Aaronson cited in articles indexed by
CINAHL
Specific Citation – Use Fields to Identify
Paper by Aaronson with “fatigue” in Title
Search Cited References to Find Additional Citations on a
Subject – Ex. Service Dogs
MEDLINE with Full Text Basic Search
MRSA search, limit to Human, English, FT
Narrow Results by Subject: Major Heading
“Methicillin Resistance”
Use of Narrow Results by Major Heading
Provides Fewer but More Relevant Results
Alt HealthWatch Basic Search
Search Mode “Find all my search terms”
Results
Alt HealthWatch
Search Options – Limit to Scholarly Publications, FT
Results FT, Scholarly Publications, Date Limit
Thank You