The View from the VA

As part of the South Central VA Health Care Network, the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System has recently gained access to a nice selection of web resources. Staff who have access to the VA Intranet can tap these resources with a few clicks of their computer mouse.

The first click is to the CAVHS homepage. From there, you should click on the Library link. Once the Library homepage loads, you should then click on the Virtual Library link which will take you to the web page that serves as a portal to the resources.

The following resources are available:

The American Psychiatric Online Library. This site provides full text access to APA journals.

CancerNet. A gateway to the most recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute.

EBSCOhost. Provides access to 5 databases that can be searched individually or simultaneously.

• Biomedical Reference Collection. Provides access to 200 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature). This is the complete CINAHL database with full text/page image coverage for 276 journals from 1987 to the present.
• Expanded Nursing & Allied Health Databases. This database contains 200 full text journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
• Health Business Fulltext. Explore the business of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.
• Medline. The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file.

Harrison's Online. The full searchable text of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.

Health and Wellness Center. An integrated collection of general interest, health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts and/or full text formats.

MD Consult. Designed to meet the needs of practicing physicians, MD Consult includes the most trusted clinical content from over 50 publishers and organizations.

Medical Matrix. An excellent source for ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, and updated clinical medical resources on the web.

Merck Publications. Full texts of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the Merck Manual of Medical Information (home edition), and the Merck Manual of Geriatrics.

PsycInfo Plus Text (Proquest). Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.

SAMS (Scientific American Medicine). Scientific American Medicine online.

Stat-Ref. A complete medical reference library including most Little, Brown books.

While you're at the VA, don't forget these valuable resources are as close as your computer. For assistance in using them, you may contact the Librarians at the VA.

George M. Zumwalt, Chief, Learning Resources Service