MDConsult Open House

MDConsult is having an e-book open house and many titles are being offered on a free trial. Here’s a sampling of some of the free titles:

• Canellos: The Lymphomas, 2nd ed. – 2006 – Saunders, An Imprint of Elsevier
• Gunderson: Clinical Radiation Oncology, 2nd ed. – 2006 – Churchill Livingstone, An Imprint of Elsevier
• Mendelsohn: The Molecular Basis of Cancer, 3rd ed. – 2008 – Saunders, An Imprint of Elsevier
• Paulino: PET-CT in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning, 1st ed. – 2008 – Saunders, An Imprint of Elsevier

Please take advantage of this free trial by clicking here or by clicking on the MDConsult link on our web page.

Oxford University Press’ Medicine Collection

We have been granted a 90 day free trial to Oxford University Press’ Medicine Collection. Below is a sampling of some of the titles included in this free trial:

Health Promotion International
International Journal of Epidemiology
International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Journal of Electron Microscopy
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Nicotene and Tobacco Research
QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Click here to access the website and then click on the Medicine Collection under Journals by Subject. In a few days a link will be placed on the library’s webpage under What’s New and will be added to to the Journals Holdings list.

Free e-books available through MDConsult

For a limited time period, MD Consult is providing free access to additional e-book titles published by Elsevier. Check out the entire list here.

Specific titles include:

• Apgar: Colposcopy
• Bassett: Diagnosis of Diseases in the Breast
• Bostwick : Urologic Surgical Pathology
• Eisele: Complications in Head and Neck Surgery
• Fletcher: Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumors
• Myers : Cancer of the Head and Neck
• Rigel: Cancer of the Skin
• Tartar: Breast Cancer Imaging
• Weiss: Enzinger and Weiss’s Soft Tissue Tumors

New e-ditions of textbooks added

In the last year, the Talbot Research Library has acquired two electronic resources from major health sciences publishers, Access Medicine, from McGraw-Hill and MDConsult , from Elsevier. Both products feature electronic editions of their books, among other offerings. I would like to call your attention to new editions of many of these titles. These electronic books can be accessed via Access Medicine or MDConsult on the Library’s webpage, or by looking them up in webcat, the library’s web-based catalog.New titles from Access Medicine include:

• Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2008
• Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine (2nd ed.)
• Vaughan & Asbury’s General Ophthalmology (17th ed.)
• Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine (17th ed.)
• Current Diagnosis & Treatment : Emergency Medicine (6th ed)
• Hurst’s The Heart (12th ed)
• Smith’s General Urology (17th ed.)
• Pre-publication chapters of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (17th ed.)

New titles from MDConsult include:

• Duthie: Practice of Geriatrics, 4th ed.
• Feldman: Sleisenger & Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 8th ed.
• Ferri: Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2008.
• Ferri: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient, 7th ed.
• Gabbe: Obstetrics, 5th ed.
• Goetz: Textbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd ed.
• Goldberger: Clinical Electrocardiography, 7th ed.
• Goldman: Cecil Medicine, 23rd ed.
• Katz: Comprehensive Gynecology, 5th ed.
• Kronenberg: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 11th ed.
• Libby: Braunwald’s Heart Disease, 8th ed.
• McPherson & Pincus: Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 21st ed.
• Piccini & Nilsson: The Osler Medical Handbook, 2nd ed.
• Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy 2007, 59th ed.
• Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 18th ed.
• Wein: Campbell-Walsh Urology, 9th ed.

Next month, expect to see Campbell’s Orthopedics, 11th ed., included in MDConsult and Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th ed., in Access Medicine. The library does not plan to purchase the print copy of these texts, except for Harrison’s, so this will allow us to purchase additional titles with our book budget. Please contact Karen Albert, Beth Lewis, and/or Sherri Place with any questions or comments that you may have.

MDConsult

Have you tried MD Consult, the latest electronic resource recently acquired by the Talbot Research Library? MD Consult includes information from leading medical textbooks, full-text journals and also includes a complete medline database. Additionally, it provides a drug database, a medical news service, a collection of peer-reviewed practice guidelines, a CME collection, a collection of patient education handouts, and a database of medical images that include photos, tables and graphs. Images can be searched, downloaded, and /or printed.

The collection of textbooks includes more than 50 titles including Abeloff’’s Clinical Oncology, Hoffman’s Hematology, and many others in all areas of medicine. The journals collection contains more than 80 full-text journals, including most of the Clinics of North America titles. Each title can be searched separately or as a collection.

Need some basic background information? Type a topic in the search box or click on the star for Recommended Results for the Most Common Searches. MD Consult automatically breaks down search results by resource and lists the top results delivered by each resource. Searches can be stored and Alerts can also be set up.

MD Consult News is updated daily and includes top stories, stories by specialty, and a section called, “In This Week’s Journals”. Sign up for the free weekly e-newsletter or set up an RSS newsfeed on your computer.

You can find MD Consult on the library’s webpage, under “other web resources”. MD Consult can also be accessed at home and by PDA, unlike Up-to-Date. Please contact Talbot Research Librarians Karen Albert, Beth Lewis, or Sherri Place with any questions or for a demo of MD Consult.