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ALHS 1060 - Diet and Nutrition: Finding Articles in Galileo

This guide is designed to provide students with easy access to course materials and introduce them to library resources that can be used to supplement the Diet and Nutrition course.

Finding Articles in Galileo

Using Galileo discover or the specialized databases listed below, with any of these search terms: “nutrition, diet, diet and nutrition” brings up literally thousands of hits. 

Note that after you retrieve the initial set of "hits" from your search, which might include literally thousands of titles,  the Refine Results column on the left side of the screen contains several methods of further refining what you're looking for in order to reduce the number of articles to a more relevant and manageable result list. 

  • Full text (not just a summary)
  • Date of publication (if using only current sources is important)
  • Type of publication (check the boxes next to magazines and trade publications)

Galileo Databases

 

 Focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness

Offers a variety of options for researching current health issues including, up-to-date information on current diseases and illnesses, vaccine information, general health information, safety, and wellness. 

A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.

Covers an enormous range of subjects from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.

Offers users vital clinical, biomedical, and health journals, including many indexed in MEDLINE.

 Provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines. Patient education sheets from the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide are also included.

Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Includes extensive information about drugs and supplements, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, videos, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news.

Provides users with reliable health care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. 

Provides access to Magill's Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer. 

 


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