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The Director's Report

The Scholarly Communication Crisis and UConn's Biomed Central Institutional Membership.

Household Products Database

Adding Content to your PDA.

Pubmed Update

New Look for the Library Homepage.

Web Watcher

Color Printing Now Available

E-Books: 3 New Significant Additions.

New Books in the Library.

Let us do it for you! Library services for users on the go.

Looking for material we don't own? Find it in Worldcat!

Stat-Ref!:New Features and New Look.

Update Archives

E-Books : 3 New Significant Additions by Arta Dobbs , M.S.L.S. Collection Management Librarian

The UCHC library has subscribed to 3 e-books which enhance our growing digital collection.

Hurst’s the Heart Online
http://cardiology.accessmedicine.com/

Hurst’s The Heart Online is published by McGraw-Hill’s Access Medicine, who are the same producers of Harrison’s Online. The same familiar screen format is followed; full text in a convenient, cross-referenced, searchable format plus links to MEDLINE(TM) abstracts in PubMed, where you will find links to the full text of many of those abstracts.
This online version of the printed textbook, now in its 10th edition (2001) , is continuously updated, providing users with regular updates on important new research and treatment, clinical trial summaries, practice guidelines with evidence-based data and cost-effective treatment strategies, case studies, drug information, color plates of ultrasounds, normal and diseased heart images.

Sign up for e-mail alerts which will notify you about content which has been updated and/or added to the website.

Sign up for the online forum discussions or click on related links to find valuable information listed at other websites that have been pre-screened for you as relevant to cardiology.

Access to the online version is seamless for the UCONN community, no username or password to register for or to remember. Members of the UCONN community may bookmark the URL above, and find links in both the UCHC libraries’ online catalog and e-text list on the library website.
Whenever the online version is unavailable, the printed version of this 10th edition (2001) and several earlier editions, may be found in the library book stacks under call number : WG 100 H435a .

MMBID: Metabolic and Molecular Basis of Inherited Disease Online
http://genetics.accessmedicine.com/

This new online title is also published by McGraw Hill’s Access Medicine, with the same familiar screen format of Harrison’s Online. Full text is conveniently cross- referenced and linked to MEDLINE abstracts in PubMed.

MMBID Online provides access to a compendium of genetic disorders and information from the entire field of genetics. Contributions from genetics are changing the way physicians diagnose, and MMBID Online provides a strong clinical component including information on diagnosis, testing and screening, genetic counseling, and gene therapy.

This online version of the printed textbook, now in its 8th edition (2001), is continuously updated, and also delivers daily medical news, links to hot topics and discussion forums. An interesting feature helps to make sense of acronyms heavily used in this textbook.

Sign up for e-mail alerts which notify you about content that has been updated and/or added to the website.

Access to the online version is seamless for the UCONN community, no username or password to register for or to remember. Members of the UCONN community may bookmark the URL above, and find links in both the UCHC libraries’ online catalog and e-text list on the library website.
Whenever the online version is unavailable, the printed version of this 8th edition (2001) may be found in the library at Permanent Reserve. Earlier print editions may be found in the book stacks under the call number : WD 205 M587b . A CD-ROM version (1997) may also be found in the HSEC computer education center.

E-Medicine Online
http://www.imedicine.com/wc.dll?emedclass~WelcomePage

E-Medicine began weblife as on online emergency medicine textbook. The original text has been expanded to include many new textbooks in clinical medicine. These textbooks contain articles and images on 7,000 diseases and disorders with references linking live to abstracts in PubMed . The evidence-based content—updated 24/7—provides the latest practice guidelines in 62 medical specialties.

E-Medicine's professional content undergoes 4 levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD. Several UCHC faculty and physicians have edited and/or written for E-Medicine: Dr. George Wu,
Dr. Ellen Eisenberg, Dr. Ted Rosenkrantz, Dr. John Shanley and Dr. Robert Powers.

Access to E-Medicine is from a UCHC desktop and you will be asked to register for first time use, thereafter, access is seamless. A new search feature allows users to search only for images, which can be downloaded and used in classes and presentations.

The UCHC community may also sign up for personalized specialty information, consumer health information, and educational updates to be sent directly to you by e-mail. PDA downloads of many sections of E-medicine are available with MobiPocket Reader. Individual articles may be freely downloaded, e-mailed and /or printed based on the UCHC subscription, however, users may not download the complete textbooks or the complete E-medicine. Users wishing to download complete textbooks have the option of paying for desired titles.

Users wishing CME credits, from the extensive repository of CME’s may use the UCHC Institutional discount code. Patient education materials and handouts can be e-mailed and printed from the new consumer health section.