New Library Website
On September 15, 2004, the Library introduced
its new website. Fast title searching for electronic journals is a
prominent feature. read more
Electronic Kiosk Now Available in the Library
Health is Wealth, an electronic touch-screen kiosk
is now located in
the consumer health area of the HAM-TMC Library. The concept for these
kiosks was developed in 2002-2003. Two kiosks were placed in public
libraries in the Houston area. read
more
New resources available to TMC Educational Access
Users:
imagesMD: http://www.images.md/ (BioMed Central)
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Serials Solutions, Inc. provides a new interface for
searching electronic journals. The new interface offers clarity and ease of
usage. When there are several sources for journal access, each is listed
under the title, including range of years available. Serials
Solutions' listing also provides a handy subject search
feature.
Check out the new Library web site at: http://www.library.tmc.edu
The kiosk contains 37 health brochures in five languages:
Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, and English, for a total of 185
brochures, on topics such as diabetes, hepatitis, HIV, and nutrition.
Brochures are accessible via touch-screen and printing of brochures
is free of charge.
The Health is Wealth kiosk is sponsored by the Jesse
H. Jones Community Health Information Service of the HAM-TMC Library and
the Asian American Health Coalition of Houston. It is funded by the Friends
of the Texas Medical Center Library, with a gift from the Burlington
Resources Foundation, and Tammy Tran, Houston Attorney. The kiosk is a
continuation of the Consumer Health Information for Asians project, which
began providing paper health information brochures in Chinese, Vietnamese,
and English in 2000.
For more information contact: Adela V. Calbillo, MLS,
Information Services Librarian, Consumer Health at the HAM-TMC Library,
713.799.7183, acalbillo@library.tmc.edu
Need to attend a Reference Manager class? Or would you like
to attend
an Advanced PubMed class? Attend one of the many free classes at the
HAM-TMC Library.
images.MD has over 50,000 medical images from more than 90
collections and 2,000 contributors, including histology, pathology,
radiographs, original artworks, graphs, and tables. Detailed references
accompany each image. Unlimited personal use of the images plus the tools
and online workspace to help you use them effectively are all part of the
product.
Digital Dissertations: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dis
sertations/gateway (ProQuest)
iDigital Dissertations provides the full text of over
450,000 dissertations at this Web site. Dissertations are available in two
formats: full PDF and TIFF images wrapped in PDF. In addition, the most
current two years of the Dissertation Abstracts database, over 225,000
citations and abstracts, is also freely available for searching.
Please direct any questions regarding these resources to
Leah Krevit, Associate Director, Collections Management, 713.799.7126, lkrevit@library.tmc.edu
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