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Foreword | |
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To the student | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Who should use this book? | |
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How is this book structured? | |
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Icons used | |
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Conventions used | |
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How to use this book? | |
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Some assumptions | |
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What will you achieve? | |
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Overview of the units in this book | |
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Health and the net--an overview | |
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The World Wide Web | |
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Databases | |
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Electronic mail | |
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Newsgroups | |
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Mailing lists | |
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) | |
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Voice on the Net (VON) | |
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File transfer protocol (FTP) | |
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Archie | |
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Gopher | |
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Telnet | |
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Publishing on the net | |
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Online help with your health studies and job search | |
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Getting online | |
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Obtaining a college computing account | |
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Ten key points for protecting your password | |
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Choosing and remembering a password | |
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Getting started with the college computing system | |
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Regulations governing college computing facilities | |
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Activity: Logging on to your college system | |
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Getting started with a computing system at home | |
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Activity: Equipment needed to surf the net | |
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Which computer? | |
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Activity: which VDU? | |
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Which modem? | |
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Incoming calls and call waiting | |
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Which type of telephone line? | |
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Which communication software? | |
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Which Internet Service Provider? | |
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How does an account with a service provider work? | |
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Taking out a subscription | |
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Signing up | |
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How does one get an account for a system at home? | |
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How do I use an online service? | |
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JANET and the web | |
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Activity: Checklist for JNDS account | |
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The world wide web | |
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Understanding the web | |
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The nature of hypertext and hyperlinks | |
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Recognising a link | |
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Storage of web pages | |
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Web browsers | |
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Starting your browser | |
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Activity: Logging on and off the Internet on the college network | |
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Some important features of Internet Explorer and NetScape browsers | |
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Anatomy of a web page | |
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Web addresses (URLs) | |
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Some common service types | |
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Domain names | |
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Navigating the web | |
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Internet Explorer toolbar | |
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Activity: Exploring the web | |
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Address or Location box | |
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Hotlists | |
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Exchanging hotlists | |
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Activity: Entering URLs and adding interesting sites to your hotlist | |
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Selected UK and foreign web sites applicable for nursing and allied professions | |
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Associations, organisations and UK statutory bodies | |
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Adult nursing and medicine | |
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Alternative medicine | |
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General health information | |
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Mental health nursing, psychiatry and learning disabilities | |
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Midwifery and health visiting | |
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Paediatric nursing and medicine | |
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Paramedical | |
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Healthcare research | |
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Journals for health professionals | |
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Libraries and free health databases | |
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Electronic publication and citation | |
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Quality of public services | |
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Finding health information on the internet | |
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Tools for searching health, medical and general web sites | |
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Web directories | |
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Carrying out a search using a web directory | |
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Activity: making a simple search using Yahoo | |
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Some search strategies | |
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How to set search options | |
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Search results | |
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Browsing Yahoo's web directory | |
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Activity: Browsing Yahoo! UK and Ireland | |
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Search engines | |
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How to select the right search engine to use | |
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Carrying out a search using a search engine | |
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Activity: Exploring a web site using Lycos | |
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Activity: Exploring a web site using alternative search engines | |
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Information gateways for health and medical sources | |
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NHS Gateway | |
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OMNI | |
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SOSIG | |
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Health on the net (HON) | |
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Activity: Bookmarking sites of interest | |
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Activity: Database searching using OMNI | |
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Online databases relevant to health students and staff | |
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Activity: What's available | |
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Developing search strategies | |
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Activity: Writing a search statement | |
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Searching databases | |
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Activity: Searching health databases | |
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Printing your finds | |
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Communicating with other health professionals by e-mail | |
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Understanding the electronic mail system | |
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How does e-mail work? | |
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Downsides of e-mail | |
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E-mail programs | |
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E-mail headers | |
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Understanding electronic mail addresses | |
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The anatomy of an e-mail address | |
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Reading e-mail addresses | |
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Typing e-mail addresses | |
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Finding e-mail addresses | |
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Using e-mail on a college network | |
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The mechanics of e-mail | |
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Undelivered e-mail | |
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Replying to e-mail messages | |
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Using reply to answer e-mail messages | |
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Forwarding e-mail and the law | |
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Activity: Using Simeon mail | |
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Attaching files | |
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Attachment problems | |
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Activity: attaching files to an e-mail message | |
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Deleting or moving incoming mail | |
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Creating folders | |
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Activity: Forwarding, saving, printing, deleting, undeleting, creating a new folder, transferring messages to other folders | |
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What you need to use e-mail at home | |
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Activity: What do you need? | |
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E-mail conventions (netiquette) | |
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Do's and don'ts | |
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Flaming health professionals | |
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Coping with e-mail overload | |
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Composing e-mail online | |
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Using keyboard characters to convey feelings | |
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Symbols and acronyms | |
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Other options and issues | |
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Signatures | |
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Address books | |
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Activity: Create an address book and a signature file in Simeon | |
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Joining health discussion groups, mailing lists etc. | |
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Getting involved with newsgroups | |
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How do newsgroups work? | |
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Newsgroup names | |
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Reading articles | |
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Activity: Using your home or college system to read articles | |
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Keeping the cost down | |
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Old news | |
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Newsgroup netiquette | |
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Posting your first article | |
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Activity: Posting and follow-ups of articles to newsgroups | |
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Online help | |
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Posting header fields | |
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Asking for help from newsgroups | |
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Getting involved with mailing lists | |
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Mailing addresses | |
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Determining administrative addresses | |
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Finding a mailing list | |
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Getting on and off a mailing list | |
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Activity: Subscribing to a mailing list | |
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Receiving mailing list messages | |
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Sending messages to a mailing list | |
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Making special requests to mailing lists | |
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Locating archives of past messages | |
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Obtaining a list of subscribers | |
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Concealing your name | |
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Starting an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) | |
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Connecting to IRC | |
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Activity: Using mIRC to chat and talk | |
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Some IRC commands | |
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Hearing your voice on the net | |
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Activity: Checklist of hardware specifications | |
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A selection of VON programs | |
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The gateway to free health and medical resources | |
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FTP - What is it? | |
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Private vs anonymous sites | |
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How to get access to FTP sites | |
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Activity: Using your browser to access FTP sites | |
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Using a dedicated FTP program | |
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Activity: Using a dedicated FTP program to access FTP sites | |
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Using an e-mail program to get to FTP sites | |
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Using Archie to find the health material you want | |
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Activity: Using Archie to find a file | |
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Gopherspace | |
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How does a Gopher work? | |
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Telnet your way to nursing and medical literature | |
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Activity: searching library catalogues from home | |
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Publishing on the world wide web | |
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The web language | |
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How does HTML work? | |
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Creating a simple web page | |
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Activity: Steps for creating a simple web page | |
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Maximising HTML | |
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Formatting text | |
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Heading tags | |
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Inserting paragraphs and lines | |
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Creating links to other sites | |
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Activity: Linking your web page to other website(s) | |
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Adding pictures | |
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Using HTML editors | |
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Getting your web page on the net | |
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Broadcasting your web page | |
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Online help with your health studies and job search | |
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Using online tutorials to develop study skills for health courses | |
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Evaluating health and medical resources available on the web | |
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Referencing health material obtained from electronic sources | |
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What is meant by referencing? | |
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Formats of references | |
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Referencing internet sources | |
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Referencing non-internet sources | |
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Finding a health or health related job online | |
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Twelve big questions and answers | |
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Appendices | |
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The user agreement | |
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UK service providers | |
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Country codes | |
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Troubleshooting error messages | |
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Glossary of terms | |
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References and recommended further reading | |
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Worksheets | |
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Logging on and off the internet on a college network | |
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Exploring the World Wide Web | |
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Entering URLs | |
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Adding a website address to a hotlist | |
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Searching with Yahoo's web directory | |
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Browsing with Yahoo's web directory | |
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Searching with Lycos | |
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Database searching with OMNI | |
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Searching health databases (CINAHL) | |
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Using online help to get started with newsgroups | |
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Creating a session profile | |
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Searching library catalogues from home | |
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Searching library catalogues from home (2) | |
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Creating a simple web page | |
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Creating a simple web page (2) | |
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Creating a link to another web site | |
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Creating a link to another web site (2) | |
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Index | |