E-Book News

More ebooks for your online pleasure

The LSUHSC Libraries have recently purchased over 70 health sciences books in multiple subject areas of medicine, nursing, and allied health through the Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library. R2 is available on campus and remotely through WAM. Please use our library Electronic Resources R2 page for access: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/r2library.html. Searches can be performed on our entire R2 collection, a subject collection or an individual book. You may also browse a book from beginning to end or use the Table of Contents to help navigate your way. To see all currently purchased titles, please click “View all Titles.” To see books in a particular subject, click the subject menu tabs at the top or the subject “books” in the center. Dentistry and public health titles are included under the subject of medicine, and dental hygiene titles are included under the subject of allied health. You can also register for a free account which will allow you to customize your R2 Library by bookmarking chapters, saving images, assigning course links, and more.

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eBooks for your smartphone

STAT!Ref, an online book provider of over 80 medical, dental and nursing textbooks, is now optimized for mobile devices. Simply access the link from your phone or PDA’s browser and you will be automatically redirected to the mobile site.

You must be able to access to the internet on your mobile device to use STAT!Ref mobile.

Links
STAT!Ref on campus: http://online.statref.com/Search.aspx?grpalias=StFH&mobile=true
STAT!Ref off campus: http://0-online.statref.com.innopac.lsuhsc.edu/Search.aspx?grpalias=StFH&mobile=true

More info from STAT!Ref.com.

E-Links are Working On-Campus

The Electronic Links in the catalog, INNOPAC, are working on-campus only. We are still working on off-campus access

E-Links in Catalog Not Working

Most of the E-Journal & E-Book Links in the catalog are still not working today. We are working with our support team to get the links working again. We hope to have them back up by mid-day today.

INNOPAC down

The libraries’ online catalog will be down for the next 2 hours for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Latest Cancer Data Online

The American Cancer Society has announced the release of Cancer Facts & Figures 2008. Annual editions back to 2000 can be found online at their website.

Resource Guide Updated

The Core Materials for Medicine Resource Guide has been updated. This guide includes e-books and other e-resources.

Batty for Anatomy

Is a cadaver your best friend this semester? Then you must be one of the many students taking Anatomy. There’s good news for you lab rats though — the library has several online atlases of anatomy available that you can use in the lab, through your laptop!

Color atlas and textbook of human anatomy. Vol.3 – Nervous System and Sensory Organs
by W. Kahle, M. Frotscher

Pocket atlas of human anatomy by H. Feneis & W. Dauber

Want more? Thieme ElectronicBook Library has oodles of atlases available.

No bones about it, these online anatomy books rule!

Summer semester is in full swing, and for some of you that means anatomy class. Before you start hacking away those cadavers, consider hacking of a different kind: using an e-book in the lab, direct from your laptop, to identify that fatty tissue.

Whoa! You mean I don’t even have to open a book???
Thieme ElectronicBook Library has over 20 atlases of the human body, including Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy, Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol.3, & The Human Body.

AccessMedicine, AccessSurgery & AccessEmergency Medicine are also good resources. Though no specific anatomy books are in here, a keyword search for any body part can give you lots of results from a ton of different e-books.

Computers are lame. Giving me the print edition
Not into the e-book thing? Good news — you can browse our extensive anatomy section of the library by going to the 4th floor books & looking for the call number QS 4 ot QS 17.

E-books galore!

We have over 400 books available online here at the library. That’s 400 books you can access any time, any place. Today, let’s take a look at all the books available from Stat!Ref.

And boy, there sure are there a ton of them!

Underage Drinking — a call to action from the Surgeon General

Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among America’s youth. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action To Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking is a new report from the Office of the Surgeon General that focuses national attention on this enduring problem and offers hopeful new possibilities for prevention and intervention.

The full text of this report is available online for free from the NCBI bookshelf.

5 classes to be offered in April

In conjunction with Medical Information Day 2007, the Isch?â?® Library will be offering 5 unique classes in April.

We will be offering the following classes from 12 noon to 1 p.m. on the following days:

  • Advanced Googling on Tuesday, April 17th
  • General Library Systems on Wednesday, April 18th
  • Navigating E-Journals on Monday, April 23rd
  • Exploring EMBASE.com on Tuesday, April 24th
  • Excavating E-Books on Wednesday, April 25th.
  • New Additions to AccessMedicine

    New e-books from AccessMedicine:

    Poisoning & Drug Overdose, 5th Edition
    Written by the staff, faculty, and associates of the California Poison Control System, one of the country?óÔé¼Ôäós most respected poison control systems.

    Current Rheumatology Diagnosis & Treatment , 2nd Edition
    Authoritative and clinically focused quick-reference guide for the entire range of rheumatology disorders.
    Plus, did you know…