The Ohio Department of Health is now providing a web-based tool, the Ohio Hospital Compare that measures how well hospitals follow scientifically backed recommendations for care in areas such as heart attack, stroke, infection prevention, patient safety, and more. See the Business Courier article for more information about this new web-based tool.
Category Archives: HSL News
Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
(Volume 1-18, 4th edition) is now available as streaming videos on the Health Sciences Library website and is available for 40 concurrent users.
To access Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination from off campus you will need to use the SSL VPN (Virtual Private Network), which is easy to set up and use. Click here for information about how to set up the SSL VPN.
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Information Resources
- University of Cincinnati Emergency Services http://www.uc.edu/pubsafety/emergency_services/
University Health Services: http://www.uc.edu/uhs/
- The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Environmental Health and Toxicology Swine Flu web page links to many individual sites about H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu): http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/swineflu.html
Veterans Day Observance
A reminder that UC Libraries will be closed Wednesday, November 11 for Veterans’ Day with the exception of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, which will be open 9am to 5pm.
Portraits in Civil War Medicine
Brutal images of Civil War battle aftermath illustrate what soldiers on both sides of the conflict faced. However, the role of the healthcare professional on the battlefield is often overlooked. Those who tended to the wounded, sick, and dead made use of the tools and techniques available in a heroic effort to save as many men as possible and aid the Union or Confederate causes. A new exhibit on display in the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions hopes to give a voice to the overlooked healthcare professionals of the Civil War. Continue reading
Searching for Archival Collections?
Archives and Rare Books Library Stacks
Are you thinking about doing some archival research this fall? If so, both the Archives and Rare Books Library and the Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions have a new way for you to find archival collections at the University of Cincinnati and across Ohio: Encoded Archival Description, or EAD. The OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository available at http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/, allows you to search archival collections across the State of Ohio, including those at the University of Cincinnati.
Notable Government Documents for 2008
All are on display in Langsam Library- stop by for a look!
Recommended by the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table. Continue reading
Celebrating the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library
The University of Cincinnati reached a milestone this summer with the opening of the splendid Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library. This library is situated in the midst of a soaring, light-filled space that joins the new Center for Academic and Research Excellence (CARE)/Crawley Building with the existing Medical Sciences Building on UC’s Academic Health Center campus.
The library is named for Donald C. Harrison, M.D., Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs from 1986-2002, whose vision and generosity brought this project to fruition. His professional experience includes 23 years at Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford University Hospital where he was chief of cardiology and the William G. Irwin Professor for 20 years. When the UC Board of Trustees named the library for Dr. Harrison, he said, “The library is a critical component of the education, research, and clinical care mission of the Academic Health Center. It provides a service that is absolutely essential. It lies in the heart of our new building and, in many ways, acts like the lifeline for UC’s up-and-coming physicians, scientists, and health professionals.”
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Students study in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library |
The new Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library is designed to meet the research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Allied Health Sciences, and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. It also serves health sciences professionals of affiliated institutions, including University Hospital and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, as well as national and international scholars and researchers.
The library encompasses 44,872 square feet with a 90-seat computer lab, electronic classroom, and comfortable study spaces. Its collections include over 200,000 print volumes on site, over 600 online databases, 60,000 electronic journals, and 392,000 e-books. It is home to the Center for the History of the Health Professions. The library’s Web site is www.libraries.uc.edu/hsl.