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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine: A Database Guide: Searching & Selecting Results

A research guide covering how to utilize the OneFile: Health and Medicine database

Searching

This tutorial shows you how to narrow a research topic within Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine.

Your Gale resources can help you promote wellness and self-care on campus. Learn how to find and share reliable articles with students, faculty, and staff. Understand when to use Gale Health and Wellness or OneFile: Health and Medicine.. (45 min.)

Topic Finder

Gale's Topic Finder helps you visualize connections between search terms and topics and view relevant articles for those topics. This tool takes the titles, subjects, and approximately the first 100 words from a subset of your top results and feeds them into an algorithm. Keywords shown in the graphics are those found most often in the text with your search term. For Tiles Visualization, the bigger the tile and the darker the color represents, the more significant words and subjects for your Search Terms. For Wheel Visualization, the inner larger wedges represent the more significant subjects or Search Terms. The outer and expandable spokes represent specific topics or documents containing that subject or term.

Selecting Results

Let’s take a look at one of the results in our search. As you can see below we can see the TITLEAUTHOR, and SOURCE of the article. 

Click on the article TITLE to see more detailed information. Again, you can see the TITLEAUTHOR, and SOURCE. By clicking the blue hyperlinks, users can search articles by the same author, Publication Index, related articles, and subject. In addition, you can change the Display Options regarding font style & size, Language Preference, and listen to MP3 audio files. Gale Tool Options include choosing Citation format, saving to the Cloud, downloading, printing, getting a permalink and making highlights and Notes.

Topic Finder Tip Sheet