The Libraries now have access to the following electronic journals:

Family Journal
Journal of Mixed Methods Research

They are available through the catalog or the Ejournals list.

27 ebooks from NursingConsult have been added to the Health Sciences Ebooks by Subject or Title pages.
These ebooks are also available in the catalog.
Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery, (Gilbert) 3rd ed.
Mosby’s Clinical Nursing, 5th ed.
Mosby’s Pediatric Nursing Reference, 5th ed.
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 4th ed.
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Iowa outcomes project, 3rd ed.
Patient Care Standards: collaborative planning & nursing interventions, 7th ed.
Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook, 14th ed.
Sheehy’s Emergency Nursing: principles and practice, 5th ed.
Wong’s Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 6th ed.

EyeRounds.org is an ophthalmology website for medical students, residents, physicians, and consumers. Created by the University of Iowa’s Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, this website contains: cases, tutorials, an online ophthalmic atlas, and patient tutorials.

EM-DAT: the International Disaster Database is an appropriate resource for health disciplines such as EMTs, emergency medicine physicians, and epidemiologists.
The following description comes from the Earth Trends website.
“The EM-DAT Emergency Disasters Database, maintained by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), provides access to useful information concerning both natural and manmade disasters. Data extend throughout most of the 20th century and include but are not limited to disasters such as famine, wind storms, extreme temperature, industrial accidents, drought, and earthquakes. In addition to viewing the date and frequency of particular disaster types by country or region, the EM-DAT Database also generates the number of people affected, injured or killed and the estimated financial damage.

Included in the database:
+ Country Profiles
+ Disaster Profiles
+ Disaster Lists

An advanced search interface also provides many search options.”

A new five-volume work, the Dictionary of Medical Biography, edited by W.F. Bynum and Helen Bynum, published by Greenwood Press, is now available on the reference shelves at the Queen Lane Library. Drexel University College of Medicine’s Steven J. Peitzman, MD, FACP, is among the numerous first-rate historians and physicians who are contributors to this major publication. Its call number at Queen Lane is REFERENCE-ENCYCL WZ 113 D5545 2007.

Hahnemann Library’s audiovisual collection, which was housed on the first floor in the micro center, has now been moved to the second floor, opposite the leisure book collection and magazines. Relocating the AVs means users can browse freely for any audiovisuals in the collection. Select videos and CDs have been moved into the reserve collection.
Call the circulation desk at 215-762-7631 if you have any questions about locating a particular title.
Histology laserdiscs are still available at the first floor computer center desk.

XreferPlus is a database of over 200 reference books containing a section on Medicine.You’ll find many medical and allied health dictionaries in it. The titles include Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, and several Mosby’s dictionaries. XreferPlus may be accessed through the libraries’ Databases list.

The following editions have been added to the Health Sciences Ebooks by Subject or Title Pages:

From Access Medicine:
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, (Katzung) 10th ed.
Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, (Jonsen) 6th ed. (New Title!)

From MD Consult:
Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach, (Goldberger) 7th ed.
Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 21st ed.

From NCBI Bookshelf:
Antiretroviral Resistance in Clinical Practice. (New Title!)

Take a look at PsycBooks, an APA database which contains the full text of over 1,200 e-books. The titles are either classics in the field of psychology or works published by APA between 1950-2002. Although PsycBooks is updated monthly, there is an 18 month embargo on recently published books.

The Health Sciences Libraries now have access to Nursing Consult. This Mosby/Elsevier product, which is similar to MDConsult and FirstConsult ,offers an array of books, journals, drug information, patient handouts. It’s designed to help nurses find answers to clinical questions.
Contains full-text of Nursing Clinics and Critical Care Clinics of North America.
The ebooks will be added into the libraries’ catalog and Health Sciences Ebooks pages within the next few weeks.