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HEALTH REFERENCE
CENTER ACADEMIC
How to search Infotrac to find the most accurate information from today’s medical society.
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Overview
MeL is the Michigan e-Library program funded by the state that offers reference and information tools at no charge to Michigan residence.
One of the resources is called Infotrac. Infotrac is a searchable database that
can be cross searched or searched by category as we will see in this PowerPoint.
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To Start:Start by going to www.mel.org
Click on MeL Databases to get to a complete list of MeL’s offerings.
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This page with be displayed:
Scroll to “H” and locate: Health Reference Center Academic
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This page with be displayed:
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To Search: Use the Find: bar to search by Subject, Keyword, or for the Entire Document.
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This is a sample search for Academic Journals on the Keyword “OCD”. We see that 248 articles are displayed. From the tabs noted by arrows we can view Magazines (312), Books (6) , News (392), and Multimedia (2) as well.
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To view Multimedia files about the searched keyword, click the multimedia tab.
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Here we see an audio file.
Here is a transcript from a radio broadcast from Morning Edition.
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To play an audio file click on the link. The title displayed in blue.
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Locate the link highlighted in red. This link will direct you to a site containing the desired media.
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Multimedia is also displayed proceeding the initial search on the left hand side of the results.
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Conclusion
Infotrac contains up to date information from thousands of sources.
This is a valuable resource that students and adults who reside in the State of Michigan have access to.
Infotrac is one out of many resources available through the Michigan e-Library (MeL).