Introduction
The Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Gale Database Menu
To find the Health & Wellness Resource Center, go to the Brown Library home page and click on "Databases." Then click on "Gale."

 From the Gale database menu, scroll down to the bottom and then click on Health & Wellness Resource Center.

Home Screen

This is the home screen for Health & Wellness Resource Center. On this screen you have several choices. At the top you see 8 tabs. You will see these tabs on every screen within the database. For the Drugs and Directory tabs you have the option to search directly from the home screen. For the other tabs, you must click to search. These tabs include:

• Home - Where you are now. The first screen in Health & Wellness Resource Center.
• Diseases & Conditions - The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
• Drugs - search for drugs in the PDR, USP-DI, and other drug reference sources. You can also search by disease to find drugs used to treat the disease.
• Directory - includes agencies, periodicals, organizations, and hospitals
• Dictionary - Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
• Trusted Sites
• Health Assessment - calculators, risk assessment tools, and cancer facts.
• Advanced Search - expands upon the basic search by allowing you to search multiple topics and by publication date.

In the upper right corner, you have the basic search box. Here, you can search for a topic such as Parkinson Disease.

Diseases & Conditions: Search Screen

On the screen above you see the top part of the Diseases & Conditions Screen. The topics are listed in alphabetical order. You can scroll through down through the list or you can click on the letter corresponding to your topic. Let's click on P for Parkinson Disease.

On the screen above you see topics beginning with the letter P. Let's click on Parkinson Disease.

Diseases & Conditions: Results Screen

On the screen above you see the top half of an article titled "Parkinson Disease." This article is from The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. On the left side of the screen you see a picture of a printer. Click there to format the article for printing.

On the screen above you see the article formatted for printing. From here, go to the file menu to print the article.

Next, go back to the results screen. Now we will view the same article in PDF format.

On the screen above you see the article in PDF view. On the toolbar at the top of the screen, click on the printer button to print the article.

Drugs: Search Screen

This is the search screen for drugs. We got to it by clicking on the Drugs tab. Let's do a search for dopamine, a particular drug used to treat Parkinson Disease.

Drugs: Drug Name Results Screen

These are the results for our search on Dopamine. There are 31. Some of these results come from the USP DI, others from the PDR. Let's look at the first one, about Carbidopa, Entacapone and Levodopa.

On the screen above we see a full text article from USP DI - Volume II, Advice for the Patient: Drug Information in Lay Language. From this article we see that carbidopa, entacapone and levodopa are all dopamine precursors. The article is a drug overview and discusses what these drugs are used for. It also talks about precautions, interactions, proper use, dosing, and side effects. Now let's go back to the drugs search screen.

Drugs: Search Screen

We are back on the search screen for drugs. This time we will search on Parkinson as a symptom.

Drugs: Symptoms Results Screen

There are 85 search results for our search on Parkinson as a symptom. Now let's click on the directory tab and do a new type of search.

Directory: Search Screen

This is the directory search screen. Here you can search for agencies, organizations, schools, journals, newsletters, publishers, websites, hospitals & health care facilities, and programs and special care.

Directory: Results Screen

There are 199 results for the directory search for Parkinson. Notice that all but one of the first ten are for American Parkinson Disease Association. The second one is the home organization and eight of the others are for state and city chapters. Let's look at the second article for the home organization.

Here we have contact information for the American Parkinson Disease Association. We also see when it was founded, number members, number of local and regional groups, a description of the organization, activities, and publications. Now, let's click on the home tab to get back to the home screen.

Search (basic)

On the home screen you have the option to do either a basic or advanced search. For the basic search it simply says Search over in the right hand corner. You can do either a keyword, subject, or entire document search. Let's do the keyword search for Parkinson.

Search (basic): Results Screen: Books & Fact Sheets

These are the results for our keyword search on Parkinson. At the top of the screen you see 6 new tabs. They are: Books & Fact Sheets, Magazines & Journals, Drugs, Pamphlets, Video, and News. The current tab is green, other tabs with sources are tan, and tabs without sources are gray. We are currently viewing Books & Fact Sheets with 31 results. Now let's click on the Magazines & Journals Tab.

Search (basic): Results Screen: Magazines & Journals

When we click the tab turns green and we come to a new list of results. There are 7,884 magazines & journals with the keyword Parkinson. Most of the results are not full-text. In fact, on this first list of ten results, we find no articles that are available full-text through Health & Wellness Resource Center. How do we know these articles are not full-text? To see the difference, let's go back and do another search, this time for full-text only.

Here is the basic search screen with our keyword Parkinson already entered and with a check mark in the box to select full text articles.

Now our results have gone from 6,292 to 4,082 for magazines & journals. The number of results has decreased because we have eliminated all articles for which no full-text was available. Now, all we have are full-text articles. We know this because we see a full-text icon at the end of each article reference.

Search (basic): Results Screen: Video
When we click on the video tab it turns green and we see 12 results.

Let's look at the first video titled, "Parkinson's Disease Through a Caregiver's Eyes."

Here we see a link to a video along with a transcript. The participant names are listed at the top.

Advanced Search

With the Advanced Search we have more options than we did with the basic Search above. In addition to searching by keyword, and subject, we can also search by article title, publication name, full text, author, abstract, and document number. We can also search for multiple topics at one time, limit the search to particular types of sources, and also limit the date of publication.

MLA Citation
Here is are two sample MLA citations from the Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center.

encyclopedia
With an encyclopedia article, first cite the article itself, then cite the encyclopedia, then cite the electronic information for the database.

Gulli, Laith Farid. "Parkinson Disease." The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders. 2nd ed. Ed. Brigham Narins. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2005. Health & Wellness Resource Center. Gale. Virginia Western Community Coll., Brown Lib., Roanoke. 8 May 2007 <http://find.galegroup.com>.

periodical

"Parkinson's Disease." Harvard Special Health Reports 2004: 4. Health & Wellness Resource Center. Gale. Virginia Western Community Coll., Brown Lib., Roanoke. 8 May 2007 <http://find.galegroup.com>.