This tutorial is for health consumers to better access and utilize the reference materials, academic journals, magazine and newspaper articles, and pamphlets, as well as images and videos contained in the Health & Wellness Resource Center database.

1. Harvesting Fruitful
Information
How to CultivateYour Health with
Gale’sHealth & WellnessResourceCenter
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2. Anappleaday… Introduction
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The Health & Wellness Resource Center (HWRC) is a rich resource for growing your health knowledge!
HWRC comprehensive database designed for everyone from consumers to students to health
professionals. HWRC delivers up-to date reference materials, as well as full text magazines, academic
journals, and pamphlets from a variety of authoritative medical resources. In addition to textual sources,
searchable videos and images are included. The University of South Florida has also chosen to include
an Alternative Health Module that looks at health care through a holistic lens. If you do not find exactly
what you need in HWRC, there is also a list of descriptions and links to many useful websites that have
been selected for their relevancy and credibility.
After completing this tutorial, hopefully you will be able to reap the benefits HWRC has to offer! By the
end, you should be able to effectively unearth and ingest the health information you need. By learning
about the features and functions of the database, you will see that searching in HWRC will help you to
answer questions about health with more focus and confidence; however, HWRC is not intended to
replace the advice of your own health care provider.
Now to begin cultivating your health!

3. Anappleaday… Instructions
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There are six sections to this “Harvesting Fruitful Information” database tutorial. Each section covers the
basic functions of the Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center database. The Main Menu allows you to
skip to a particular topic or you may use the forward arrows to follow the tutorial in order. The icons on
the Main Menu will be located on pages throughout the tutorial to indicate related sections. Click on the
icon to jump to the section for more information.
Icons & Navigation:
Use the forward and back arrows to move to the next or previous slide.
Use the End Tutorial icon to exit the program at any time.
Use the Main Menu icon to see the list of section icons below.
Use these icons to jump from the Main Menu to specific sections of the
tutorial.
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TakeYour Pick: Menu Tabs
Plant theSeeds: Basic Search
“Pear” Down: Limit Results
Get at theCore: Advanced Search
Gather theRipe: Collect Results
TakeaBite: View Results

5. Anappleaday… TakeYour Pick: Menu Tabs
•• All screens will display the menu tabs below •All screens will display the menu tabs below •
• Click one at any time to use the features described •• Click one at any time to use the features described •
Use this tab to search by remedy or symptom in reference sources such as the Physician’s Desk
Reference Family Guides to Prescription Drugs, Over-the-Counter Drugs, Natural Medicines and
Healing Therapies, Nutritional Supplements, and Herbal Medicines among others.
Use this tab to search national directories for health organizations,
facilities, services, programs, and schools.
Use these tabs as you would an
encyclopedia. The left tab allows you to
browse the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
and the right tab the Gale Encyclopedia of
Alternative Health.
Use this tab to define
health terms in Mosby’s
Medical, Nursing, and
Allied Health Dictionary.
Use this tab to access
interactive health
assessment tools and
calculators.
Use this tab
to link to
reviewed
and reliable
websites.
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6. Anappleaday… Plant theSeeds: Basic Search
• TheThe Basic SearchBasic Search box will display on the page •box will display on the page •
• Simply enter your search term(s) and click• Simply enter your search term(s) and click SearchSearch ••
Use quotation marks in order to search
terms as a phrase; otherwise, the terms
will be searched separately (I.e. any
item with high or cholesterol will be
returned).
SEARCH TIP
• Select Keyword, Subject, or Entire Document •
As the default
setting, searches
the abstract, title,
author, and first
100 words of a
document for
your term(s).
For more
focused results,
searches the
topics assigned
to a document
for your term(s).
For broader
results, searches
the full text of a
document for
your term(s).
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7. You may check more than one box; however,
if any box is checked, Related Searches will
not appear on the results page.
Anappleaday… “Pear” Down: Limit Results
SEARCH TIP
Full text articles:
Checking this box will narrow results to full length
documents, as opposed to results that are only
abstracts or citations.
Refereed publications:
Checking this box will narrow results to content that
has been peer-reviewed by health professionals.
Results will likely be from scholarly research
journals.
Consumer health:
Checking this box will narrow any results to those
specifically intended for the general public, as
opposed to those written for health professionals.
en español:
Checking this box will narrow results to content
written in Spanish.
Click Clear to remove all
search terms and
selections you have made.
Check a box to search only certain types of documents:
SEARCH TIP
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8. Anappleaday… “Pear” Down: Limit Results
Click on a tab
to view
results by
format.
Click the green
arrows to
navigate
results.
Click
Revise
Search to
return to
the Basic
Search
box.
Click the title to
view the
document.
= full text available
= PDF available
= abstract only
= citation only
SEARCH TIP
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9. Anappleaday… Get at theCore: Advanced Search
Main
Menu
SEARCH TIP
Use to combine
terms in order
to refine
results or find
specific
documents.
Limit your
results by date
or date range,
but remember
that this
feature also
limits your
results to
Magazines &
Journals only.
Choose a
Boolean
operator
(AND, OR, NOT)
to combine your
search terms.
Navigate here
from the Basic
Search box
or the
results page.
AND = narrower results,
finds documents with all
search terms
OR = broader results,
finds documents with at
least one search term
NOT = narrows results,
finds documents without
search term(s)
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10. Anappleaday… Get at theCore: Advanced Search
What exactly is being searched??What exactly is being searched?? The drop down menu
defaults to search the
Keyword index;
however, you may
choose to search from
seven other indexes.
Keyword Index: Searches titles, abstracts,
indexed subject headings, and the first 100
words of text.
Full Text: Searches all words associated with
documents, including the entire body of text.
NOTE: This includes every index in this list!
Article Title/Headline Index: Searches titles
and subtitles, annotations, and names of
regularly featured material.
Author: Searches the author of the document.
NOTE: Enter the author’s last name first with
any known first name initials using spaces or
periods (ex. smith j.d. OR smith j d).
Subject: Searches the terms assigned to
documents from the standardized subject
headings in Gale’s hierarchical thesaurus.
Abstract: Searches the summary of the
document, which is either written by the author
or by Gale.
Publication Name: Searches source titles (i.e.
journal names, newspaper names, etc.) in
which documents appear.
Document Number: Searches the unique
record numbers assigned documents by Gale,
which are located at the bottom of each
document.
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11. Anappleaday… Gather theRipe: Collect Results
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•• A list of results can be created from the search results page•A list of results can be created from the search results page•
Put a in the
box next to
each article to
be saved or
next to
Mark All.
Click Update
Marked List.
A new button
will appear.

12. •• Click to print, email, or download your marked results. •Click to print, email, or download your marked results. •
Anappleaday… Gather theRipe: Collect Results
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Click to view a
printer-friendly
version and then
choose
File→Print in the
web browser.
Click to Open or
Save an HTML
version of the
document(s).
This means the
downloaded file
will open in your
web browser.
Uncheck the
box and click
to remove
document
from Your
Marked List.
HTML Format retains
bolding, italics, etc.
from the article.
Plain Text does not.

13. Search terms
are highlighted
in red wherever
found in the
entire document.
Anappleaday… TakeaBite: View Results
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SEARCH TIP
Click suggested
Subject Headings
to view related
searches.
Click
to return
to search
results.
Place a to add
to Your Marked
List without leaving
the page.

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Credits
This database tutorial was designed and developed
by Lana Brand for LIS 6303 Preparing Instructional Media,
Fall 2010. Instructor: Prof. Diane Austin