The Library Catalog will be down for maintenance on Friday 9/2/2005 from 9am - 12pm. Please use Summit to search for hard copies, and the HealthLinks eJournals to search for electronic resources during that time.
On Monday, Sept 5, 2005, all 3 health sciences libraries will be closed in recognition of Labor Day. The Health Sciences Library (T-334) will be open on Sat & Sun, Sept 3-4, from 1 pm - 5 pm. KK Sherwood Library (Harborview) and Social Work Library will be closed. All electronic resources remain available.
Designed as a quick response medical knowledge system, Skolar MD is now available for you use until 31 Dec 2005. Try out this potential resource and please complete the short survey to provide necessary feedback.
In Nov2004, WoltersKluwer Health (publisher of Skolar MD), partnered with Cerner to provide point of care service. For more information about Skolar MD, see the 11 Aug 2005 HSL-News post.
The UW Libraries Catalog will be down for Maintenance Saturday August 27, from 7AM to 7PM PDT. Please use Summit to search during this time.
The Health Sciences Library will be closed for internal maintenance all day on 8/25/2005.
This closure does not affect any other UW Libraries or eJournal access via HealthLinks. If you have a library question you can still contact us electronically.
Access is now available to the Canary Database, Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards.
Created by the Yale University School of Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine with funding from NLM, the Canary Database is a compilation of curated, peer-reviewed research articles related to the use of animals as sentinels of human health hazards. The database includes studies of wildlife, domestic, and companion animals where either the exposure or the health effect could be considered potentially relevant to human health. For each study, curators add information about animal species, exposures, health effects, loction, and whether the study includes data providing evidence linking animal events to human health risk.
The planned downtime (Aug 22-23) for the catalog has been cancelled.
The upgrade is postponed until some additional software issues can be resolved.
No schedule is set at this time but nothing will happen before next weekend.
ProQuest databases, e.g. ABI/INFORM, Health & Medical Complete, National Newspapers, ProQuest Medical Library, and ProQuest Research Library, will be unavailable on Saturday, August 20 from 7:00 pm PDT to approximately 3:00 am PDT on Sunday, August 21 for scheduled maintenance.
The UW Libraries Catalog will be down from 5:30 pm Monday, Aug 22, 2005 through 12 noon Tuesday Aug 23, 2005 for installation of an upgrade. You should use the Summit catalog to search for materials during this time (although you will not be able to place holds or renew items from the Summit catalog).
HSL is providing trial access to Skolar MD, a knowledge system providing access to textbooks, drug information, Medline abstracts, journal articles, guidelines and patient education materials until 31 December 2005 to evaluate it for possible purchase. Please send comments.
Originally developed at Stanford University and now owned by Wolters Kluwer Health, MDSkolar searches several textbooks and handbooks such as DeVita's Cancer (6th ed), the full text of Fitzpatrick's Dermatology (6th ed), and the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. Drug information is from eFacts (Drug Facts and Comparisons and Review of Natural Products). Patient information is provided from MedFacts. Evidence-based information comes from the National Guideline Clearinghouse, Clin-eguide and Cochrane.
For details on the contents, visit the description.
Because of every low usage, the Health Sciences Libraries is dropping its subscription to the SportDiscus database as of 1 September 2005.
HSL is providing trial access to McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine, a collection of texts including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and the Lange Educational Library until 15 Aug 2005 to evaluate it for possible purchase. Get Password before proceeding to AccessMedicine. Please send comments.