The Alt HealthWatch database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles for nearly 180 international -- and often peer-reviewed -- journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Full-text titles include:
- American Journal of Chinese Medicine
- American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine
- California Journal of Oriental Medicine
- European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
- International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
- Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
- Journal of Asian Natural Products Research
- Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society
- Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association
- and many others.
Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
Search tips:
If you are interested in saving items related to searching (for example, search results, saved searches, etc.) you can create an account. Once you sign in as a personalized user, any items that you collect are automatically saved to your folder for future use. To do this click on the words Sign In at the top of the page. On the next screen, select I’m a new user. You will be prompted to fill in your information to create the account. Then you will always be able to log into this account from any computer and access anything you have saved.
The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. Alt Health Watch finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. It will not find net because the wildcard replaces a single character. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an * . Alt Health Watch finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing.
To change your view of the search results click on the word Preferences located at the top of the page. Here, you can change the number of citations you will see on a page, from the default 10 up to a maximum of 50. You can also change the citation format to either a brief format or a detailed one that includes abstracts when available.
Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter A and select Alt Health Watch.
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