This Library Update includes the following topics:
1. New resources
2. Office Delivery of Books for Faculty
3. Profiles in Sciences from NLM
4. Collection of International AIDS Posters
5. Reminder: PubMed and SFX
6. Friedman Center is Open
To access Medical Connections click on: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/medcon/ or from the new Library homepage http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/index.php , under “For You” click on “Medical School” Remember from off-campus to log on to the “Off Campus Access Service” .
1. New Resources
Under the Online Medical Textbook heading on Medical Connections, you will find two new resources:
PsychiatryOnline
This is a portal from American Psychiatric Publishing. Browse or search each resource independently or search them all concurrently and find relevant records among guidlelines, books, journals and the DSM Library. PsychiatryOnline includes:
DSM-IV-TR
DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis by MB First, et al.
Cases From DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Its Treatment Companion by R.L. Spitzer, et al.
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry by Hales & Yudofsky
Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology by Schatzberg & Nemeroff
APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications (patient handouts)
and the journals, Psychiatric Services. American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Academic Psychiatry and Psychiatric News .
AccessMedicine
While the Library is still negotiating with McGraw-Hill, and the individual titles are not yet in Josiah, you can already begin to use AccessMedicine. It p rovides online access to medical textbooks, such as Harrison ‘s Online; Hurst ‘s The Heart; Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics; Schwartz, Principles of Surgery Online etc. You can also access the Lange Educational Library, and the Lange Self-Assessment Tool for National Boards review. The textbooks are updated daily and may be searched by disease, test or drug for results in print, audio or video formats. AccessMedicine can be accessed using a PDA, iPod and MP3.
2. Office Delivery of Books for Faculty
The library is pleased to offer a new service for faculty, including hospital-based faculty. Now library books can be delivered directly to your University mail address at Box G. We will deliver requested items from our own collection as well as books you request from other libraries through borrowing services. For more information about borrowing options, click on “When Brown Doesn’t Own” on Medical Connections. The procedure for ordering is simple. After searching Josiah, Brown’s online catalog, click on the “Request it”. You will be notified by email when the requested title is in hand and you will be asked if you wish to have it delivered. Just say “yes” and send your reply.
3. Profiles in Science from NLM
The National Library of Medicine, announced the release of an extensive selection from the papers of Dr. Harold Varmus on its Profiles in Science Web site. With his collaborator, J. Michael Bishop, Dr. Varmus developed a new theory of the origin of cancer, which holds that the disease is not inflicted by external agents, but arises from mutations in certain of our own genes. The online exhibit features correspondence, laboratory and lecture notes, research proposals, published articles and photographs from the Harold Varmus papers at the University of California, San Francisco.
4. Collection of International AIDS Posters
The UCLA Library launched an online collection of more than 600 AIDS posters from countries around the world. “The collection provides a fascinating insight into the many approaches that have been used to try to modify risk behaviors,” said Roger Detels, MD, MS, UCLA professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases. “The posters range from terrifying to amusing and reflect the many cultures from which they have been drawn, which include national cultures and risk group cultures. The collection should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and attempts to control it.” The physical collection is held in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections. For more information, please contact Katharine Donahue (310.825.6940).
5. Reminder: PubMed and SFX
If you log on to PubMed via the Brown network, from the abstracts you will be able to link to full-text of the articles by clicking on one of the icons SFX@Brown or “Find It @Brown”. If Brown does not subscribe to the e-journal, you will be able to find out if we have the print or request the article from another library.
6. Freidman Center is Open
Opened on 1/25/07, the Freidman Center in the Sciences Library is a 24/5 student study space featuring 27,000 square feet of study and social space, staffed by library and technology experts, with wireless, a café, seminar rooms, and multimedia terminals. The medical textbooks and review books for the National Boards are on Level A. When coming down the stairs, walk straight ahead, then take a right.
Tovah Reis, Medical School Librarian, Brown University, Tel: 401-863-3334