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Magill's Medical Guide
The five-volume essential healthcare reference for patients, families and caregivers.

Salem Health: Cancer
An A-Z encyclopedia for patients, with information about 835 topics in cancer.

Psychology & Mental Health
Covers notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or conditions.

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Salem provides access to its renowned healthcare content both in traditional, printed form and online. Combined in a single purchase. Both uses are included in all Salem Health reference. Purchasers of Salem's health-related printed reference products are entitled to complementary access to the full content of the print reference. It's that simple.

Salem History Any school or library with reference content included in Salem's health database is entitled to online access to that content. This access is an inherent part of our product.

Past purchases qualify, so if you failed to activate your earlier purchases, you can do so now. Schools and libraries aren't required to buy any new titles. Customer's content, the reference on shelves right now, is available throughout a system and remotely. Access is unlimited. Immediately. The list below includes all of the reference sets that are included in Salem Health. Any that you own can be made available to you online at no charge.

Getting Started
To initiate access to your Salem reference online takes minutes. Those with prior purchases of Salem reference activate their access to that content with a phone call. Just dial (800) 221-1592. We'll take it from there.

But you can activate on your own. All Salem Health titles have an "Activation Number" bound into the inside back cover of Volume 1 of the printed set. This number is used to activate your online account. The number is unique to each printed set and can only be used by one school, college or library. For complete instructions, click here.

Salem Health
Salem Press' critically acclaimed healthcare series is available in Salem Health. Titles included are:

TITLE PUBLICATON DATE
Magill's Medical Guide November 2007
Salem Health: Cancer November 2008
Psychology & Mental Health October 2009
Genetics & Inherited Diseases May 2010
Infectious Diseases & Conditions April 2011
Addictions & Substance Abuse September 2011
Nutrition & Eating Disorders April 2012





New Editions
While a substantial number of our current and past reference is available now, Salem will be updating some of this work in the future. When a title is updated, customers must purchase the new edition to have access to it online. Past editions - once replaced by revised editions - will not be available in Salem databases.

Current Users
Thousands of schools, colleges and libraries currently use Salem's online platforms to bring their patrons and students reference content online, in libraries and at home. Many others, who have qualifying Salem reference in their collections now, can activate and use that content online, at no cost. And, of course, new titles will be added to all our databases every month.

Beginning in 2012
Beginning in January 2012, Salem will charge $100 per year to maintain access to each of our databases. Note this fee is for all of the titles you own in an entire database. For instance, all of your library's titles in Salem Health, no matter how many you own, will be hosted for a $100 per year charge. Content will be available there indefinitely (until revised) and there will be no other charge. This hosting fee will not be required until January 2012.

Complete Collections
Schools and libraries with incomplete collections of Salem Health may buy all missing titles at the special "Collection Development" discount of 20% off the list price.

Salem Health: The Database
Salem Health offers libraries a user-friendly interface that provides all the content of our printed resource. Along with the complete articles and sidebars from the printed sets, also included are hundreds of photographs, illustrations, indexes, appendixes, and directories. Plus, users get terrific online tools to enhance the value of this great reference source.

Easy Registration
Libraries and schools will find an “Activation Number” in their printed volume of Magill’s Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer. With this number it’s easy to log onto Salem Health, register and get your library connected to this resource. The whole process takes only minutes and our Customer Service department is ready to help every step of the way.

1 Saving articles to personal profile areas is easy and available to all users.
1 Key terms and definitions are included in sidebars.
1 Special sidebars on common ailments accompany most articles.
1 Links to related subjects in Magill's Medical Guide appear in every article.
1 Complete bibliograhies are included with every article.
1 Hightlighted words provide popup definitions with a click.
1 There are many illustrations and graphs throughout the text. Most can be enlarged with a single click.


 
Simple and Advanced Search Options
Searching Salem Health can be as simple and direct or detailed and precise as users wish. Search results appear in a variety of user-defined ways, sorted and organized to help users find what they need, quickly. Traditional finding aids, such as indexes, are also available and hyperlinked cross-references abound.

1 Our "simple" search is quick and intuitive.
1 Articles in search results can be saved to personal profiles for later use, their citations can be saved, and they can be emailed.
1 Both simple and advanced searches can be saved and re-run at a later time.
1 Search results are organized in categories for quick, convenient viewing.
1 Search results include brief descriptions and word counts.
1 Results can be sorted by relevance, word length or alphabetically by title.


1 Advanced searching employs powerful Boolean logic.
1 You can refine your search by querying any of the eight major categories of the Guide.


 
Personalized Profiles
Every individual user can establish a simple personalized profile to save important information such as articles, searches or citations. These personalized areas are complementary and unlimited.

1 Saved searches are easy to manage in a user's profile.
1 Citations can be saved in a variety of formats and for all major bibliographic management software.
1 Articles are saved with author identifcation and word count.


 
Unlimited Access
Every library with Salem Health provides an unlimited number of users access to the content. There are no restrictions on how many people can use the database, nor are there restrictions on how many buildings are allowed access.

Patron and Student Access
With a library card number (or some other identifying key) students and patrons can access all the functionality of Salem Health from home. It’s easy for your library to set up and terrific for your users.

Extraordinary Value
The pricing, distribution and effective costs of this resource are remarkable. Smaller libraries and high schools will be able to provide extensive online health reference at a very low cost. Larger institutions, especially multiple-branch libraries, will find that a single set of the printed Magill's Medical Guide or Salem Health: Cancer will deliver online access at every branch. The print with electronic combination will make teaching research a more robust experience. And having both forms available will provide those who prefer one over the other the resource they want.


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