We
would like to introduce you to the variety of resources that are available
to UAMS
faculty, staff,
and students. Each month, the Library will ‘show case’ a
different resource and offer a demonstration during one of the “Friday@Noon” sessions.
Featured Resource of the Month: Online Textbooks
Go to www.library.uams.edu and
select ‘Electronic Reference
Sources’ from the left toolbar on the Library homepage. The following
resources are included:
- STAT!Ref – Find fast, reliable answers to clinical
questions. STAT!Ref quickly cross references 70,000 pages of medical
text from numerous
publishers. Developed by physicians, STAT!Ref is a powerful search
tool that delivers relevancy ranked results instantly
- MD
Consult – 40
textbooks to choose from. Includes drug information, patient handouts,
practice guidelines, and CME modules.
To access these
books, open the ‘Generic Edition’ of the database and
then choose ‘Books’ from the left MD Consult
toolbar.
- Harrison’s Principle’s of Internal Medicine
ONLINE – on-campus
only. The complete text, illustrations and expanded features from
the 15th edition of Harrison’s are available, including additional
references, an easy drug look-up database, links to MEDLINE™® abstracts,
and important information from emerging fields.
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- Books@Ovid – 12 online books which include: Washington
Manual of Medical Therapeutics, Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive
Textbook of Psychiatry, 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, and a
few more. To
search Books@Ovid, select ‘Ovid Database Searching’ from
the top of the Library homepage, then choose ‘Without Password’ and
select “Books@Ovid” from the list of databases.
- PubMed – 20
online books which include: Cancer Medicine, The Cell, Essentials
of Glycobiology, Developmental Biology, and
more. These free
books are searchable and available to everyone. Logon to http://pubmed.gov and
select “Books” on the top toolbar.
(follow instructions in the description to access
Books@Ovid and PubMed Books)
The Friday@Noon demonstration for Reference Textbooks
will be held in ED III, room G226 at noon on Friday, May 9.
For more information about these workshops, please
contact Abby Holt at 686-6748 holtabby@uams.edu or
Sharon Keel at 686-6735 keelsharone@uams.edu.
To find out information about any of our resources,
please contact the Reference Department at: 686-6734 or email: libraryinformationservices@uams.edu. 
Abby Holt, MLS
Campus Outreach Liaison
Sharon Keel,
Reference Assistant
  
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