Most UC Libraries will be closed Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day. The exception is the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library open 9am to 5pm.
Also, Langsam Library will close early Sunday, May 30 at 10pm.
Category Archives: HSL
Libraries Awarded NEH Grant to Digitize the Correspondence and Photographs of Albert B. Sabin
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have received a $314,258 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and distinguished service professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Research Foundation from 1939-1969.
The primary source documents to be digitized include 35,000 letters totaling 50,000 pages of correspondence between Sabin and political, cultural, social, and scientific leaders around the world. Also included will be 1,000 photographs documenting the events and activities worldwide that were part of Sabin’s crusade to eradicate polio.
HSL New Book List
Take a look at the new books that are now available at the Health Sciences Library!
A new book list will be posted on the HSL blog the first week of every month .
JAMAevidence Now Available
Now available, JAMAevidence is an online interactive tool designed to help students and clinicians learn the best practice of evidence-based medicine. This electronic tool provides full-text access to the content in the second edition of The User’s Guides to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination.
Bookmark these URLs or go to the Health Sciences Library home page at http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/ and click on EBM Resources and the letter J at the top of the page.
If you have any questions, please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu.
New Link to PubMed
PubMed has a new URL!
http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=ohuncilib
With this URL change comes a different but probably familiar button 
in the PubMed citation abstract view that tells you whether you can access the full text article.
So bookmark the new PubMed URL and if you have a ‘My NCBI’ account, update it to see the UC Article Linker button while logged into your account. To learn how go to update your ‘My NCBI’ account.
If you have any questions, please contact please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu
SciFinder Scholar Web Version
SciFinder Scholar has moved completely to the web version at UC for the following reasons:
Libraries Closed Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
UC Libraries will be closed Monday, January 18 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, with the exception of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, which will be open 9am-5pm. A full list of library hours is available online.
Compare Ohio Hospitals
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.
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