Linking to E-Journals via Health Reference Center Academic

Health Reference Center Academic is an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Since many of the AHSL e-journals come from the Health Reference Center Academic database, it is important to know how to start with a reference from say, OVID Medline, and then find the full-text online via Health Reference Center. EXAMPLE: From Medline citation to Health Reference Center full text Let's start with a single citation (Figure 1), which we will shortly discover is available in full text via the Health Reference Academic database.
	Figure 1
The next step is to find out if the journal is available electronically. Click the "Journals" tab across the top of the AHSL home page (Figure 2). Since the journal we need is the Journal of Family Practice, click on the letter "J" from the alphabetical list for e-journals beginning with the letter "J".
	Figure 2
Scroll down until you see the title you are interested in (Figure 3). In our example, full text articles from the Journal of Family Practice are available through Health Reference Center Academic.
	Figure 3
The Journal of Family Practice link will take you to the full list of databases which together make up the entire Gale Group of databases available to the University of Arizona. Scroll down and select Health Reference Center Academic, which is where you will find the health sciences journals. This will take you to the database search screen (Figure 4). The quickest way to find the article we are looking for is to combine a keyword search with a journal title search. Use the following steps A - C in conjunction with Figure 4. Click "Keyword search" on the left side of the screen. In the keyword search box on the new screen, enter a unique keyword from the title of your article. In our example from Figure 1, "elderly" is a good choice. Continuing with the example, limit the keyword search to the Journal of Family Practice, by entering the journal title in the journal search box at the bottom. Click "search" at the top to execute the search. Scroll through your results list and find your article. If the results list is too long, try using two keywords from the title in step A above, separated with the word "AND". For example, "examination AND elderly".
	Figure 4
See Also: Full list of resources available from Health Reference Center Academic. Entire selection of Gale Group databases available to the University of Arizona community.