New Archives Exhibit! Medical School Admission Tickets

used by Samuel Worcester Butler from 1848-1850

Micromedex - the new, web-based version is also available off-campus!

PEPID Online has over 2000 Medical Topics, 5000 Drugs including prescription, OTC and herbal medications, over 250 lab units and calculators, a Drug Interaction Generator which can cross reference up to 50 drugs, herbal remedies and OTC medications. Institutional and Personal Notes lets you add a note anywhere as a quick reminder or an important protocol. Our subscription is for the next fiscal year and is only to the Clinical Rotations Companion (CRC), Pediatrics module and the Laboratory Manuals. Please send any comments you might have about this product to David Stewart (dstewart@wfubmc.edu).

Requires a username and password for access; please contact the Reference Desk at 3-7100

DynaMed - clinically organized summaries of nearly 1,800 topics, updated daily from review of the research literature. Also available for PDA download.

Visual Histology Video Atlas - 26 streaming videos supplementing Visual Histology Atlas; videos cover topics such as the use of the light microscope, epithelial tissue, the eye, and the circulatory system

We have changed our subscription for the Cochrane databases from OVID to Wiley InterScience. This should provide better linking from PubMed and other databases. For more information about the Cochrane Library, contact Janine Tillett at 716-3879.

New Exhibit! - North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing - From 1923 to 1974 NCBH operated a nursing school; this online exhibit shares pieces of the Nursing School collection including photographs, a scrapbook, and the history of the school.

The Library will be undergoing renovations over the next couple of weeks. We regret any inconvenience. We will be open during our regular hours...

The Carpenter Library has added a new linking tool to PubMed. Click here for more details!

More Medical Schools Requiring PDAs - from the Washington Post

Now Available: Footprints Over Time: A Building History of WFUBMC featuring historical photographs and more!

The Carpenter Library Newsletter for spring has been published. Topics covered include pediatric health information, Natural Standard database, new electronic textbooks, and Librarian House Calls.

Consumer Health: Evaluating Internet Health Information - a short (16 min) tutorial from the National Library of Medicine

Library Receives Latest Edition of Faculty Salaries Reference Book - The Library has just received the most recent (2004/05) edition of the AAMC "Report on Medical School Faculty salaries". Ask for it at the reference desk.

The Natural Standard database providing evidence-based info about complementary & alternative therapies is now available.

New e-textbook - Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 8th Edition. Access through the e-texts page or through this direct link.

Five new online textbooks are now available through the e-texts page:

• International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain

RSS Feeds for JAMA and Archives titles - get the current Table of Contents (with links) or three most recent issues, if you prefer. Scroll down the page for "What is RSS" and related information.

Ten Myths About Copyright Explained

Our trial access to Scopus will be going away soon.

Two Classes tomorrow: Resources for Nurses at 10 a.m., Mastering Electronic Journals at 1:30 p.m. To register, please call the Reference Desk at 713-7100.

PsycInfo is now full-text!