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Tutorial Guide no. 15 OVID DATABASES: AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine Welcome to OVID DATABASES: AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine • AMED covers relevant references to articles from approximately 596 journals. Specific subjects include: alternative medicine; occupational therapy; speech, language, and hearing; podiatry; and palliative care. All records have basic bibliographic information; many articles published from 1995 onwards have abstracts. To access, go to http://www.usuniversity.edu/index.html • 1. From home page, look for the bar across the page, click on STUDENT SERVICES or look for Library, under STUDENT SERVICES. • 2. Select US University Online full text databases • 3. At the bottom of the page you will find the OVID databases: AMED Allied and Complementary 1. http://www.usuniversity.edu/index.html Or look for Library, under STUDENT SERVICES at the bottom of HOME page 2. Select US University Online full text databases 3. At the bottom of the page you will find the OVID databases, Scroll down. 4. AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine & GLOBAL HEALTH OVID ID & PASSWORD? •Obtain user code from Librarian and fill in ID and Password per her instructions. •You will then be prompted to select a database from the same screen. •Select AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine 5. After logging in with user ID and password, this screen will appear. Click on AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine Search for Evidence based practice or enter your research topic here: in the box and click on search. Look at the right side of the screen for important information regarding this article. Before purchasing any articles, check our full text databases to see if they are contained within one of them and read the abstract to be sure the article will be useful in your research. The subject headings list what searches could be entered to obtain this article. In other words, what is the main topics of the article. From the subject heading options, select for example all the articles on Evidence based You may also find the number of articles on your search topic is also evident. If you receive an outrageously large number, consider narrowing your topic. For example, 1754 articles on evidence based practice, narrow the results by subjects If you narrow the search to evidence based practice and humans, the results are 103 articles If you find a good article on the topic you have chosen, you can also click on find similar for more articles under the same topic.