Resources + Services for CAC
Weill Cornell Medical Library
library.weill.cornell.edu
Basics
Circulation Desk – Open seven days a week. Stop by
with your current Center Alumni Council membership card
to register for Library borrowing privileges, check out a
wireless laptop, or receive help with creating a print and
photocopy account. CAC members may borrow up to five
items at a time.
Information Desk – Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm.
Information specialists perform free mediated searches
and answer reference questions.
TripSaver – We can provide PDFs from our print and
electronic collections to registered CAC members for a fee
of $5 per item.
Tri-Cat Catalog – Our online catalog lists not only our print
holdings but also has direct links to electronic books and
journals. Please be sure to limit your searching to “Weill
Cornell Medical College”.
Services
Classes – Free classes are offered each semester, such
as PubMed Searching and EndNote Basics.
Request a consultation – Our Education & Outreach
department provides customized orientations, library tours,
help with literature searching, and clinical and community
outreach services.
SCISSORS – A suite of services for researchers: get help
with formulating questions, setting up search alerts,
literature reviews, planning for meeting presentations or
grant proposals, complying with NIH Public Access Policy,
manuscript preparation, and journal selection.
Remote access
Due to licensing restrictions, CAC members cannot
connect from off campus to the Libraryʼs electronic
resources, with the exception of those marked “Free”.
Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011
In-person visits
Hours
• Mon-Fri – 7am-midnight
• Sat – 9am-8pm
• Sun – noon-midnight
See website for holiday closings and late hours.
Computers and Wireless
• Desktops – All computers are fully networked
and have Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and
Excel. Computers located downstairs in the
Computer Room also have EndNote and SAS.
• Wireless networks – Bring your own laptop and
connect to WMC Guest Services.
• Laptop check-out – Check out a wireless laptop
from the Circulation Desk for use while in the
Library.
Printing and Photocopying (PPMS)
To pay for printing and photocopying, set up a
PPMS account – $1.00/color, $0.10/black and
white.
Library Etiquette
• Cell phone conversations are limited to the
Library Commons (main room just inside
Library entrance).
• Food and drinks limited to the Commons. Drinks
in spill-proof mugs are allowed throughout the
Library. You can purchase a Library spill-proof
mug at the Circulation Desk for $5.
Contact
Circulation Desk
(212) 746-6050
circulationdesk@med.cornell.edu
Information Desk
(212) 746-6055
infodesk@med.cornell.edu
Education & Outreach
(212) 746-3794
libeducation@med.cornell.edu
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Electronic Resources
GET IT button
The Library offers access to a wide variety of databases
for your research and clinical information needs. Connect
to PubMed and other popular tools under the Top
Databases label on the left side of our home page.
Browse other databases through our e-Resources page.
All resources, unless labeled “Free,” must be accessed
while on campus.
Click on the GET IT
button in many of our
databases to connect to
full text, see our print holdings, or request an
interlibrary-loan.
Popular databases
EndNote Web and RefWorks, both web-based
products, are free of charge for all members of the
WCMC community; users must be inside the
network to activate their account. EndNote is a
client-based application and must be purchased by
the individual user.
Bibliographic management
tools
• PubMed – premier clinical literature database; links to a
host of biomolecular resources from NCBI.
• UpToDate – point of care tool, containing the
equivalent of 40,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed
text which provide specific, practical recommendations
for diagnosis and treatment.
• Web of Knowledge – family of science databases: BIOSIS, CABI, Web of Science (WoS), Journal Citation
Reports (JCR) and others. WoS allows you to track who is citing whom, while JCR shows you journal impact
factors.
Other databases
• Cochrane Library – consists chiefly of six databases, retrieving high-quality, evidence-based documents.
• Faculty of 1000 – identifies biomedical papers that are “must reads” or “highly recommended.”
• MD Consult – full-text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug
information, patient handouts, and CME materials.
• MICROMEDEX – in-depth drug information, including PDR, POISINDEX and Lab Advisor.
• Ovid – suite of databases, including EMBASE, MEDLINE, and HAPI.
• PubsHub – details on journal impact factors, acceptance rates, publication turnaround times; also offers
details on 2,000+ conferences.
• RePORT – reports, data and analyses of NIH research, including expenditures and research results.
• SciFinder Scholar – gives you both chemical substance information and related chemistry literature; allows
you to draw and search by chemical structure.
E-Books
Over 12,000 titles, including the Current Protocols series,
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and Harrisonʼs.
Run a quick search by selecting e-Books in the search
toolbar or use the advanced search on the e-Books page.
E-Journals
Over 9,500 titles. Link to these journals from Tri-Cat, the e-Journals page, or by using our GET IT
button within a database.
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