No. 59, April 22, 1997
Health Reference Center- Academic
Now Available on Health
Sciences Library Homepage
The Health Reference
Center-Academic on InfoTrac SearchBank is a multi-source database which
covers all aspects of health, medicine, fitness, nutrition, and related
topics. This database provides access to full text and images to some of the
most respected nursing and allied health journals; consumer health magazines;
newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference
books.
Some special features of the Health Reference Center
-Academic include the following:
Full text from 500
current pamphlets and 1800 topical overviews.
Abstracts from
a selected list of professional journals.
Full text
health-related articles from more than 3,000 magazines and newspapers.
Full text information from the latest editions of 6 reference books
including:
The Complete Directory for People with Chronic
Illness
The People+s Books of Medical Tests
The Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide
USP-DI Volume II: Advice for Patient, Drug Information in Lay Language
Full text from 40+ academic nursing and allied health journals*
which includes 4 back years plus the current year.
Access
to the Health Reference Center for HSC personnel is available either by
logging on to the Library+s Homepage and clicking on the -Health Reference
Center+ or by using the URL (http://www.searchbank.com/searchbank/hscsyr). No
username or password is required. Use of InfoTrac is restricted to students,
faculty and staff of the Upstate Medical University, therefore it is available
only from the HSC edu (139.127.xxx.xxx) domain. If you attempt to connect
from a computer outside of our domain, i.e.(a commercial vendor) you will be
rejected. You can contract IMT+s HELP desk to secure off campus access to our
domain number (464-4115).
The Health Reference Center
interface includes all graphics, photographs, and tables as they appear in
print. Articles can be selected and printed from your browser or emailed or
saved directly to your hard drive for later printing.
*
Over 20 of these titles are new to the Health Sciences Library
holdings.
For further information, please call the
Reference Department at 464-4581.
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