Up-To-Date is no longer available at Hahnemann Library; access will end shortly at Queen Lane Library.

The producer of this resource is no longer making it available in a format for use on a single computer, and the cost of a subscription for network-wide access continues to be prohibitive.

Through the Libraries’ website, access is offered to Epocrates Premium and Dynamed, both well-respected point-of-care clinical information tools (with Dynamed also available for smartphone use). The Libraries also offer an extensive listing of  key textbooks and clinical handbooks in e-book format, as well as the Cochrane Library (the gold standard for evidence-based practice). Please contact the Hahnemann or Queen Lane Libraries if you would like assistance in accessing or using any of these information sources.

Recent upgrades have added some features to EndNote Web that –  frankly — are awesome!

• “GetIt” buttons! — when you’re on-campus or using Drexel’s VPN service,  citations stored in your EndNote Web account will appear with those wonderful GetIt buttons that lead to our subscribed e-journal collections, AND directly to our ILLiad Interlibrary Loan service for those obscure or hard-to-find articles.
• Sharing! — collaboration is what it’s all about in the academic world, and EndNote Web gives you the ability to share groups of citations with colleagues, whether at Drexel or elsewhere. In accordance with copyright/licensing concerns, attached documents (yes, you can attach documents and files to EndNote Web citations!) won’t be available to those with whom you share citations, but they’ll also have resolver-links (through Drexel or their own institution) to find the full text for themselves.
• Using Cite-While-You-Write — the Cite-While-You-Write plug-in that does all of that magical formatting for you while you write your papers can be configured to pull citations from either your desktop EndNote or your EndNote Web account. Switch back and forth using Preferences/Application in the EndNote tab in Word.

Two years access to EndNote Web is available when you install Drexel-licensed EndNote software; if you’ve set up an EndNote Web account with a version of EndNote earlier than the current X5 you can update it to include all the new features by opening EndNote, going to Edit>Preferences>EndNote Web and clicking the “Activate” button.

Reference Librarians are happy to help you navigate the complexities of EndNote and EndNote Web; just call our reference desk at 215-762-7184 or email us at hslib@drexel.edu.

Drexel University Libraries has just released the latest version of its online Study Room Reservation system. New Features include:

• A point and click reservation option on the study room calendar
• Shortened minimum increments (fifteen minutes) for reservations
• Quick and easy selection of each library location

Make your study room reservation today by visiting: https://www.library.drexel.edu/spaces

If you have used E-Z Borrow in the past, you will now notice that it has a new and improved interface. Some key advantages of the new interface include more streamlined (and faster) searching, advanced search features, better and condensed search results, and improved search retrieval time. All participating libraries are searched at once, rather than being divided into search groups as they were previously. The search results are more relevant and you now have the option of sorting by relevance, title, or publication date. You will also see item availability, including if it’s available at Drexel. If Drexel owns the book, you will be given a link to the online catalog where you can place your request. Additionally, if a book is not available through E-Z Borrow, you will be given the option to request the title via ILLiad.

Please direct questions or comments about this to Lynda Sadusky via email (lsadusky@drexel.edu), or phone at (215) 762-2628.

We have renegotiated our licensing agreement with AccessMedicine to allow unlimited concurrent uses of all the titles in this collection. AccessMedicine titles include Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmalogical Basis of Therapeutics, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and of course the very popular Harrison’s ONLINE, as well as numerous clinical and basic sciences titles.

AccessMedicine titles are all listed in the Libraries’ catalog, but can also be reached via the QuickLinks on the left side of our homepage.

. . . our lives got flipped, turned upside down!

New in the Hahnemann and Hagerty Library collections: Merger Games: The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Health Care System.

In 1993, Judith Swazey was commissioned to undertake an ethnographic study of the historic merger of MCP and Hahnemann; she and her research team were given extraordinary access to both people and documents at high levels of both university and corporate administration. The study continued through the financial disaster that followed, and the ultimate resolution that led to the purchase of the hospitals by Tenet Healthcare, and to the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions, and School of Public Health becoming part of Drexel University.

If you were here for the crazy rollercoaster ride — or even if you weren’t — this is a fascinating read into the clash of academic and business cultures.

Sound the trumpets! Call out the marching band!

(Wait a minute, it’s a library — SSSSHHHHHHHHH!)

Beginning on Monday, October 10th, we’ll go back to our normal academic year hours, remaining open Monday-Thursday  until 11 pm, and Saturday and Sunday open 10 am to 10 pm.

The Library will be open on Monday, October 10th (Columbus Day), although with reduced staffing.

Due to weather related concerns, Hahnemann library will be closed Sunday, August 28. The 24 hour area will remain open.

Due to staffing limitations, the Hahnemann Library will be open 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12.  Queen Lane Library, which began Summer hours at the beginning of June, is closed on weekends.

The 24-hour study space at Hahnemann Library will be open as always, with access to computers, printer and photocopiers.

Congratulations to Dr. Joke Bradt!

According to news from the College of Nursing and Health Professions, the podcast of Dr. Bradt’s Cochrane Review, “Music Therapy for Acquired Brain Injury” has been recognized as having the second highest number of “listens”.

Cochrane Reviews are internationally recognised as the highest standard in evidence-based health care. The Drexel Libraries provide access to the Cochrane Library from the list of QuickLinks on the Health Sciences Libraries homepage, and from our extensive listing of databases.