Burlew Medical Library’s Web Site Premieres !
How to make the library’s web site work
for you
Burlew Medical Library’s web
site
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Created in response to demand: this
was the #1 identified need in the last
two library user surveys
Provides convenient, 24/7 access to
library resources and critical health
information on the WWW
Adjunct to traditional library services
http://www.burlewmedicallibrary.org
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Accessible from work or home to all
SJH/CHOC Staff
• ID = library
• Password = web
• For ease of access, bookmark this site or better
yet, make it your home page. It will also be
linked off of the SJH Intranet soon.
Library Web Site Orientation:
follow the links ( don’t forget, id=library,
password = web; also you need to use your browser’s back
button to get back to the slide show from a web site)
The Library’s home page is divided into 4 major sections:
1. Consumer Health
2. Library Resources
3. Databases
4. Web Links
Consumer Health Section
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This section is available
to the public and does
not require a password
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Patients or health
consumers can be
directed here with
confidence. Only the
most authoritative and
trusted sites are linked
here.
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Consumers can use a medical
dictionary, look up a disease
or drug, or use an interactive
health tutorial on topics such
as back pain, diabetes and
more.
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Just a few of the links in this
section are
Medline Plus
HealthFinder
NOAH (English and
Spanish)
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Library Resources: just a few of the
services and resources you can access:
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Request a literature
search online
Request and article or
book
Access the full text of
more than 450 medical,
nursing and health care
journals (under Library Resources
click on “Online Journals”)
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Consult full text books
including Harrisons’
Principles of Internal
Medicine (under Library Resources
click on “Online Books”
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You can also:
participate in Library
Fundraising efforts,
view the entire library’s
journal holdings list
(both print and
electronic), read the
library’s newsletter or
library history or find out
about library staff
Databases Section
If you would like to try your hand at your own research we have provided
access to Medline (Pubmed), the National Cancer Institutes PDQ
databases, the California Digital Library and more. We now have a
link to the nursing database, Cinahl, Ovid Medline and the Cochrane
database. For your convenience, we also have links to Medline
search tutorials
and WWW search tutorials under the Web Links section, Continuing
Education.
Expert Research and Document Delivery: If you are spending more
than 10 minutes trying to find the information you need, you should
contact the library to do the research or obtain the needed documents
for you. Our staff have specialized degrees and certifications in this
area as well as years of experience and a service-oriented attitude. We
are here to save you time and obtain the information you need.
Web Links: over 1,000 authoritative, organized
links to WWW resources in healthcare
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The broad sections include
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Medicine Links
Consumer Health Links
Medicine/Science in the News
Tools for Grants writers/Fundraising
Legislation/Law Resources
Administrator/Manager links
Nursing Links/Cultural Diversity
Reference/Search Engines
Allied Health Links
California Specific Resources
Continuing Education/Tutorials and more !!
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– We will make every effort to identify broken links and keep links
current; if you do identify a broken link please let us know.
Medicine Links: from A – Z
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Links to resources in all the
specialty areas from allergy
and immunology to
cardiology, pediatrics,
oncology and surgery
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If you need a lift or
material for a talk, follow
the links to humor
resources in medicine and
nursing
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Links to special interest
areas such as bioethics,
informatics and computing,
telemedicine and public
health/statistics
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Links to Medical
“Metasites”, large-scale
portals to everything
medical such as
Hardin Metadirectory
Biosites
Nursing and Cultural Diversity
Links : sampling
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CINAHL web links
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EthnoMed
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California Board of
Nursing
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DiversityRX
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Transcultural and
multicultural
health links
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Nursing World
Manager/Administrator Links: sampling
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Health Care Advisory
Board (user
name=juliesmith,
password=burlew)
California Healthcare
Association (for CHA
interactive id=jsmith
password=sjh8291)
Agency for Health Care
Quality Research
Health Care Professional’s
Network (sample P and P’s)
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FirstGov: the official site
for the US Government
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QI-Project-National
Aggregate Data
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Health Hippo
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OSHPD
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Conditions of Participation
Legal and Regulatory Links: sampling
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Title 22, Title 17, all Calif
Code of Regulations
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State Operations Manual
Table of Contents (HCFA)
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Code of Federal Regulations
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Official California Legislative
Page
GPO Gate at University of
California (Federal Register,
Congressional Record)
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OIG Internet Site
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THOMAS -- U.S. Congress
on the Internet
Information Delivery and the Future
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Burlew Medical
Library’s web site will
continue to grow and
improve. If you
would like to see
content or a link
added, use the email capability on the
library’s home page.
We welcome your
feedback!!
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Take advantage of
your library!!!
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We are here to serve you. We
offer timely, expert searches
of the literature, WWW and
other resources. Our
collection of 600+ journals is
strong in clinical medicine,
pediatrics and nursing. We
offer document delivery
services, current awareness
services, library instruction ,
and much more! Work
efficiently, ensure quality
patient care,and improve
decision making; the medical
library can help you in all of
these areas.