Database Review

STAT!Ref is a web based collection of electronic textbooks available through NYCOM Medical Library Medical Databases. Currently, STATRef includes 18 medical textbooks.

Searching the StatRef

1. Select the relevant textbook or hold down the CTRL key and click on the desired titles.
2. Put in a word or phrase.
3. Select the Boolean operator which you want to connect the word(s).
4. Use the Precision feature to tailor your search.
5. STATRef will then display a list of the chapters that contain your search word.
6. Click on the one that seems most appropriate.
7. STATRef will display the full-text of the chapter you selected, hypertext links to images and tables, and the references to that chapter.
8. Click on the appropriate subsection to view the full-text of that portion of the "book".
9. To print limited amounts of text, block the text, then copy-and-paste it to a Word document or (in Internet Explorer only) click the Print button and choose Print Selected.

Special Features

• A link to Stedman's Medical Dictionary .
• A link to the Tables of Contents for all the books included in the database.

Sage Sayings of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still

"The heart the fountain of life is the organ in the human body which imparts the attributes of life and knowledge to the blood so that it can proceed correctly with all its work."

Thruhlar Robert E. Doctor A.T. Still in the living. Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 1950.salam

Did you know..

Over 1.5 million OLDMEDLINE citations were added to PubMed on September 30th. The citations were originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1953 through 1965.

These citations can be ordered by Loansome Doc users via PubMed or the NLM Gateway, using either the OLDMEDLINE UI or the newly assigned PMID.

Date to Remember

Medical Library will be closed on February 16, 2004 observing Presidents' Day.

Website Review

PubMed Online Training (MEDLINE)

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. The learning objectives for this tutorial are to understand PubMed's scope and content; display, save, print, and order search results; use Limits, Preview/Index, History, and Clipboard features; and use other PubMed services.

Loansome Doc

Loansome Doc enables PubMed and NLM Gateway users to order documents found in MEDLINE. It is available to users in the U.S. and internationally. You can order articles from a list of citations retrieved from PubMed and the NLM Gateway by sending requests to the library for the full-text documents.

Don't forget to contact the Interlibrary Loan Dept., before placing an order or filling out the registration page .