Using Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module

 

 

 

 1.  Go to the Hartness Library web site at http://hartness.vsc.edu

 2.  Mouse over Articles below the name of the library and click on All Databases in the dropdown menu.

 3.  In the alphabetical guide at the top, click on the letter H, then on Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module. 

4.      At Hartness Library locations, you’ll go right into the database.

5.      At home, enter your Maple User ID (initials, birth month, birth day, zero).

6.      Then enter your Maple password (initials, last four digits of your social security number).

7.      Click on Login.

8.  Near the top of the screen you may put search term(s) in the open box next to Search for.

 9.  Below that you can limit your search to full text articles and/or refereed (scholarly) publications by clicking in the boxes next to one or both of these options.

10.  You may also limit to particular date ranges in the section that says Date.

11.  Click on Search.

12.  When you have one article on the screen, you can print by clicking on the Print icon on the left.  Then either pull down File to Print or click your browser's print button.  Click OK when the print box comes up.

13.  To e-mail the article instead, click on the E-mail icon on the left.  Enter the e-mail address.  Click Send.

14.  Another way to search is to use the Quick Start menu, found below the open search box and date limits.  It Includes: Medical Encyclopedia, Health Organization Directory, Health News, Drug & Herb Finder, Medical Dictionary, Alternative Health Encyclopedia, Health Assessment Tools, and Links to Other Sites.

15.  Select one of those by clicking on it, and then either put a search in an open search box or review results in either alphabetical or date order.

16.  At the top left of the screen you'll find links for Help, Search Tips, Gale Group Databases (database selection screen), and List of Sources (contents of the database).

 

 

 

 

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                                                                                                                                    8/3/05