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Master Search
The NVHR Master Search utilizing the Heplink web portal was designed to aggregate information on viral hepatitis from a comprehensive collection of hepatitis specific sources, government websites and databases, consumer and patient resources, including complimentary and alternative medicine, transplant, clinical trials and health care provider resources, addiction resources, and legislation, advocacy/policy, education, research, clinical practice and current news reserves.
The information sources were prepared from private stores, public access information and the "deep web." From a single Web search page, you can simultaneously access and query tens of millions of documents, numerous databases and websites and an amount of information that is many times greater than that accessible on the Web's surface alone including sixty different virtual libraries within the biomedical community. In a matter of moments search results are available. No tracking down bookmarks. No long hours of hopping from site to site, logging in, submitting search terms, and cutting and pasting a master reference list. The NVHR Master Search allows individuals dealing with hepatitis to spend more time finding answers to disease management issues and less time searching for them.
Heplink was originally created for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR). The NVHR is a coalition of public and private organizations, dedicated to reducing the incidence of infection, morbidity, and mortality from viral hepatitis in the United States through research, strategic planning, coordination, advocacy, and leadership. Effective information sharing and management lies at the heart of their mission.
We hope it proves to be a valuable tool in your research endeavors.
Pinpoint searches
The pinpoint search pages were created in order to help simplify the search process across the comprehensive sources of the NVHR Master Search. A refined 'pinpoint' search page was created for the areas of Legislation, Education, Clinical Practice, Research, News and Advocacy/Policy. Sources included in these pinpointed search pages were chosen for their ability to return the most relevant information to that specific sub search area.
Distributed Explorit search engine
Search Guide
Using the search form
- Enter one or more keywords in the search box
- Select the number of records to retrieve
- Select what databases to search:
- Click "SUBMIT" to search the selected databases
Use "RESET" to start new search
Search tips
Although resources may employ different options, the following are generally true for hepconnect.com searching:
- "And" and "Or" operators are generally supported (for example, searching "frogs or toads" returns results with either or both words)
- Wildcard character * (asterisk) is supported (for example, ecolog* will find both ecological and ecology) in several, but not all, databases
- Search is not case sensitive (for example, RAIN, Rain, and rain will produce the same results)
- Full-text searching is available when supported by the database
- Limit the number of collections searched for faster results
Search examples
Here are some examples of the types of queries you can make using the HepConnect search engine
Note, that all of the search examples below may not be supported across all the resources that HepConnect searches.
"hepatitis"
Searches all resources for all documents containing the word "hepatitis".
Vaccine
Searches all databases for all documents that contain any word that has the stemas the word "vaccine" (vaccines, vaccination). If a particular search does not support stem resource searching, documents containing the exact word match will be returned.
hepatitis C
"hepatitis C"
Searches all selected resources for the phrase "hepatitis C"
hepatitis C OR hcv
"hepatitis C OR hcv"
Searches all selected resources for the phrase "hepatitis C" OR the term hcv
hepatitis AND hiv AND coinfection
Searches all selected resources for documents that contain all the terms: hepatitis, hiv, coinfection
Result list
- Results are hyperlinked to expanded information
- Results are returned as provided by individual resource; not ranked by hepconnect.com
- Results are displayed by resource
- Display order depends on how quickly each resource responds (for example, if Database A responds more quickly than Database B, results from Database A will be listed above those for Database B)
- Total number of search results may need to be reset (for example, if Database A returns 25 out of 70 results, return to the search page, increase number of records to retrieve, and repeat the search)
- Total number of search results may be restricted by the database (for example, Database A may limit results to 20, even though 25 was selected as the number to retrieve)
Results navigation
- UP – returns the user to the hepconnect.com Search page already accessed. Click on Clear to begin a new search
- MARK ALL – selects all results for further viewing
- LIST MARKS – presents a consolidated list of results the user has marked for further viewing during the current session
- CLEAR MARKS – deletes all previous marks. Use on a routine basis to completely erase marked items from the session
Document navigation
- UP – returns user to the result list for the current search
- PREV DOCUMENT – goes to the previous document returned in the result list
- NEXT DOCUMENT – goes to the next document returned in the result list
- LIST MARKS – presents a consolidated list of results ...
- HELP – displays the HepConnect help page.
Marking documents
- UP – returns user to original result list for any search
- CLEAR MARKS – clears all marked records. Records are automatically cleared after viewing
- DISPLAY – displays expanded version of all selected documents in one seamless, scrollable list. PDF icon indicates full text available
The process of marking search return items and listing these marked items in your browser can be repeated multiple times while working with the NVHR search tool. Example: Once you have successfully initiated a search, marked your desired documents and generated a list of marked items you can return to any of the search areas: Master Search, Legislation, News, Education, Advocacy/Policy, Clinical Practice and /or Research and repeat the search process.
When you feel you have completed your time working with the NVHR search application you can click on display. Display will create a single document with all of your marked returns 'opened' for content viewing that are now ready to be either printed out, saved to disk or your hard drive, or deleted.
