Health Sciences now subscribes to the database Epocrates.

Epocrates is designed to provide clinical information at the point of care.  The database contains practical, peer-reviewed content with a unique patient-centered approach for access to continually updated integrated drug and disease information  Premium features include pill identifier, alternative medicines, and a robust suite of calculators.

Drexel’s access to Epocrates replaces some content accessible in our previous subscription to Elsevier’s FirstConsult service, to which we no longer subscribe.

We now have a subscription to the American History in Video database from Alexander Street Press. It is a very cool resource, full of primary source video and terrific documentaries documenting American History.  Please do check it out!  More descriptive information found here: http://alexanderstreet.com/products/ahiv.htm

American History In Video
1890 to Present

American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period.

In addition to the officially received perspectives offered by newsreels, this collection includes some 200 hours of rare, hard-to-find, and diverse perspectives as captured in a wide range of short films. Alongside the contemporaneous materials are some 750 high-quality documentaries from video content producers such as The History Channel that Covering the full gamut of American history from the pre-Colonial period through the twentieth century.

Subjects: History; Culture and Communication; Anthropology and Sociology