Library -- Guide to EBSCOhost - Health Source Plus

Westfield State College Ely Library

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Provides indexing of scholarly journals with abstracts and many full text articles focusing on medical disciplines. It includes the text of USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Access: At the WSC Library Home Page (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/), click on Quick Links to Databases. You must use Off Campus Access if you are not searching from the WSC campus.

Click on Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Continue through the guide or Start Searching.

Search Options (For the initial search screen see the example below)

Basic Search:

To Expand your search

Sample Basic Search Screen:

Advanced Search: To conduct a search using specific fields: article title / author / subject / word(s) in an abstract / journal name:

Click on Advanced Search (a tab on the toolbar above the initial search screen).
Type in your search term. To select a field (to search for author, article title, subject, abstract, journal name, etc.) to be searched, click on "field codes."
You may use the commands AND, OR, NOT to connect search terms in various fields.
Scroll down on the page to limit your search by Peer Reviewed (for scholarly materials), Number of Pages, Published Date, and Publication Type.
You will find the same options to Expand your search as from the Basic Search Screen.
Click Search to run your search.

Result List: displays a list of citations that match your search term(s).

Results from Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition are first displayed in a list format including:
Article Title, Author, Source (Newspaper, Journal, or Magazine name), Date, Volume #, Issue, and page/column numbers.

From the RESULT LIST:
To retrieve articles one by one, click on the article title or on one of the following icons: , .
To retrieve a list of citations or the full text of articles (but not PDF Full Text), click to Add the citations that you want, then click on the "" link to retrieve your list. Select one of the following:

Print button

: This will bring you to the Print Manager.

Under Articles, "Empty folder after printing" will be checked by default. This will prevent you from printing the same thing another time. If you want to save your records, uncheck this box.
You can find out how many pages to expect before you print by clicking on "Estimate Number of Pages" at the bottom of your screen. Remember that PDF Full Text will not print from this screen.
Click Print and hit enter. When your print job is complete, click on to return to your search.

NOTE: To Print PDF Full Text:

Click on the Link. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Click on the Adobe Printer icon toward the left of the Article window.

Email button

: This will bring you to the Email Manager.

Enter your full e-mail address (e.g. yourname@foma.wsc.ma.edu) and a Subject you will recognize.
Under "E-mail content includes," chose from the following:

Additional citation details and abstract
Full Text (when available)
PDF as separate attachment (when available)

Click on Send. You will get an acknowledgement and can then click on Continue and then to return to the your search.
Your e-mail message will arrive from ephost@epnet.com with the subject heading you provided.

Save button

: This will bring you to the Save Manager.

Place a DOS preformatted disk in the A drive.
Under Articles, chose one of the following: Additional citation details and abstract, or Full Text (when available)
Note: You must be looking at a PDF Full Text document in order to save a file in PDF format.
Click Save.

Choose file from your browser, then save as.
Be sure to save as a plain text file (.txt) or an HTML file (.html). Name your file (no more than 8 characters).
Click to return to the Save Manager, and again to return to your search.

Page maintained by Corinne Ebbs
Revised January 16, 2003