In observance of Independence Day, the Library will be closed on Saturday 4 July 2009.  The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday 5 July 2009.

The complete online archive (backfile) for the Annals of Internal Medicine is now available online. Published by the American College of Physicians since 1927, the Annals of Internal Medicine is one of the country’s leading medical journals.

The archive was purchased with funds from the Medical Historical Library.

BMJ Publishing Group has released an online archive for all their journal publications. The archive includes BMJ (British Medical Journal) which began publication on October 3, 1840 as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal. See more information on the BMJ archive.

The archive includes the following journals with access from the first year of publication as noted below:

Annals of Rheumatic Diseases - 1939

Archives of Diseases in Childhood - 1926

BMJ - 1840

British Journal of Ophthalmology - 1917

British Journal of Sports Medicine - 1965

Emergency Medical Journal - 1984

Evidence Based Medicine - 2000

Evidence Based Mental Health - 1998

Evidence Based Nursing - 1998

GUT - 1960

Heart - 1939

Injury prevention - 1995

Journal of Clinical Pathology - 1947

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - 1947

Journal of Medical Ethics - 1975

Journal of Medical Genetics - 1965

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry - 1920

Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1944

Post Graduate Medical Journal - 1925

Practical Neurology (*Supplement to JNNP*)- 1920

Quality and Safety in Healthcare - 1972

Sexually Transmitted Infections - 1925

THORAX - 1946

Tobacco Control - 1992

We are pleased to announce the library has purchased the journal archives of the Endocrine Society. The Endocrine Legacy archive collection includes the published content of the four Endocrine Society journals from 1917 to 1996. These journals are:

• Endocrinology (1917 to present)
• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (1941 to present)
• Molecular Endocrinology (1987 to present)
• Endocrine Reviews (1980 to present)

The Endocrine Legacy collection was purchased with funds from the Medical Historical Library.

Gertrude van Wagenen, 1893-1978: Pioneer Reproductive Endocrinologist and Bibliophile

Gertrude van Wagenen became a member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale in 1931.  In 1935, she established a colony of rhesus monkeys at Yale for pioneering research in the then new area of reproductive endocrinology.

In the 1920s, Van Wagenen began to collect rare books, especially in anatomy, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery. A large part of her collection was donated after her death in 1978 by her brother Anthony Van Wagenen. This exhibit was prepared in honor of a visit by Anthony Van Wagenen’s descendants on June 18, 2009.

If you have a Library printing and photocopying card you should know that on July 15th, 2009, CCP Solutions, LLC. will replace Copico as the vendor that manages the Library’s public printing and photocopying operations. This change is necessary because Copico is going out of business.

CCP Solutions will honor Copico cards at printing and copying pay-stations until September 1, 2009. After that date the cards will not work in the Library. Unused balances on Copico cards will not be reimbursed by the Library, Copico, nor CCP Solutions.

Therefore we advise that you:

• Use up balances on any Copico cards you might have.
• Only purchase or add credit to a Copico card if you strictly need to.
• Do not add a large amount of credit to your current Copico card.
• Try to wait until July 15, 2009, when you can purchase a CCP Solutions print/copy card.

Contact john.gallagher@yale.edu or richard.bean@yale.edu if you have questions.

The Medical Library subscribes to QUOSA, powerful software that helps you analyze, monitor, and organize the biomedical literature, personal PDF
documents, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations. Eszter Hars, a QUOSA representative, is coming to campus next week to demonstrate this unique tool. Three identical classes will be held in the Medical Library’s computer classroom (TCC).

There’s no need to register; just drop in.  All three demonstrations are the same.

Wednesday, June 24
1:30-3:00 p.m.
3:30-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, June 25
10:00-11:30 a.m.

Contact Jan Glover (jan.glover@yale.edu) for more information.

The library now has access to Surgical Pathology Clinics. Surgical Pathology Clinics is the newest addition to the Clinics of North America Series. The publication is also available through MD Consult.

The access to the publication is covered under our existing MD Consult/eClinics license agreement.

Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection.

The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection from Henry Stewart Talks provides access to more than 1,000 specially prepared audiovisual presentations by leading world scientists. The resource is organized into a comprehensive series of talks and is regularly expanded and updated. Click here to view the series.

The subscription to Henry Stewart Talks is jointly funded by the Cushing/Whitney Medical and Kline Science Libraries.

The journal Stem Cells is now co-published by AlphaMed Press and Wiley-Blackwell. Full text of the journal from 1993 to present is accessible through Wiley InterScience, . Note that you can no longer access Stem Cells via the AlphaMed Press website.

The Library’s collection of prints and drawings is one of the best known collections of art pertaining to medical subjects. From the original bequest of Clements C. Fry in 1955, the collection continues to grow through gifts and purchase from endowments. A small selection of recent acquisitions is currently on view. Among them are Masami Teraoka AIDS Series/Geisha in Bath 2008, Sue Coe Some women on the street sold their babies to get drugs 2006, Valentine Green after Benjamin West Alexander the Great with Philip, his Physician 1772 and Jean-Baptiste Thiebault Bonaparte touchant les pestiférés c.1835.

Masami Teraoka, Japanese (active in U.S.A.) b. 1936

AIDS Series/Geisha in Bath 2008
Polychrome woodblock print

Purchased through the John F. Fulton Fund 2008

The Medical Historical Library houses one of the world’s finest historical medical collections. The collection contains over 130,000 books, bound manuscripts, journals and pamphlets. This includes 325 incunabula, which are books printed between 1450 and 1500, a wonderful Renaissance, Arabic and Persian manuscript collection along with hundreds of bound manuscripts from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

The Cushing/Whitney Historical Library also houses the Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings that spans five centuries, an additional 2500 portrait engravings and over 2000 original photographs. We have an artifact collection that includes over 1,000 medical and scientific instruments and the Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures containing several thousands items.

The Preservation Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library began in August 2005 to establish a program that will preserve and conserve these collections. The exhibit, which will be on view from June to July, illustrates issues of preservation and solutions that can be achieved to safeguard this priceless collection.

Photos by John Curtis, Yale Medicine.

We pleased to announce that the library has a subscription to Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). The Journal of Visualized Experiments is a peer reviewed, MEDLINE (PubMed) indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format.

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Memorial Day Hours:

Saturday, May 23 10:00a.m. - 10:00p.m.

Sunday, May 24 9:30a.m. - 2:00a.m.
Monday, May 25 10:00a.m. - 2:00a.m.

Tuesday, May 26 Resume Normal Hours

Only Circulation Services will be available on Memorial Day.
Reference, Document Delivery, Historical Library services, etc. will resume on Tuesday, May 26.

Ask a Librarian

The School of Nursing has a proud tradition, rooted at its most basic level in service to mankind.

“Our aim is not just care of the sick, but better health for all. . . . We care for the sick and for the well; the young and the old; those without voices and those with competing voices. We are in the hospital and in the home. Some of us come armed with remarkable technology, yet we all believe the best treatment we offer is housed in our senses and our being. We midwife both life and death and are privileged with the intimacy. We both educate and learn from each other. We are clinicians, researchers and scholars. We are as diverse as all humanity, yet singularly we are, in our purest, most distilled level, nurses.”

The exhibit is on view at the lobby outside the Medical Library through July 27.

Now you can also text the medical library to contact a librarian for help with a research question, use of library resources, remote access, or any library question.

Text us at 66746 and start your message with ymedlib For example: ymedlib What are the hours on Saturdays?

Whenever you see AskLive@Med highlighted on the medical library homepage in one of the featured boxes or in the upper right corner of our homepage, we are available to either text or chat.

This service is in beta, so hours vary. Currently the hours are:

Monday
9:00am-11:00am

Tuesday
3:00pm-5:00pm
Wednesday
9:30am-11:30am
Thursday
9:00am-11:00am and 3:00pm-5:00pm

Friday
9:30am-11:30am

Hours are also listed on the Ask-a-Librarian page.

Need help outside of AskLive hours?

If you submit a question other than the posted AskLive@Med hours, be sure you add your email address so we are able to contact you. You can also use the email form on the Ask-a-Librarian page.

These miniature prints with pen and ink and the series of larger monotype prints in black & white (with a little red) are Oi Fortin’s latest work. This year, her work was accepted in the International Miniature Print Competition at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. The abstract artist Piet Mondrian wrote that “beauty in art is created not by the objects of representation but by the relationship of line and color.” Oi believes that beauty is also created by the relationship between the work and the viewer.

Information Resources on H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

On view in The Cushing Rotunda, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, April 23-May 28, 2009.

You are invited to a tour of the exhibit: Thursday, April 30 at 12 noon.
(RSVP florence.gillich@yale.edu or 203 737-1192)

In 1928, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them, a portfolio of forty posters for exhibition and use in public lectures, was distributed throughout the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the People’s Commissariat on Health. “The Soviet government is waging a relentless battle against venereal diseases” the first poster of the series announced. “Participation in this battle is everyone’s duty….”

The exhibit, prepared by Alexander Kazberouk, Yale College Class of 2010, and Curator Susan Wheeler, displays a selection of posters from this recent acquisition to the library’s collections and explains how the posters were used for public education. An on-site computer is available to view the entire set of posters with an English translation.

Use the Medical Library’s instant messaging service to contact a librarian for help with a research question, use of library resources, remote access, or any library question. Whenever you see AskLive@Med highlighted on the medical library homepage in one of the featured boxes or in the upper right corner of our homepage, click to get live, immediate, online assistance.

This service is in beta, so hours vary. Currently the hours are:

Monday
9:00am-11:00am

Tuesday
3:00pm-5:00pm and 8:00pm-10:00pm

Wednesday
9:30am-11:30am and 7:00pm-8:30pm

Thursday
9:00am-11:00am and 3:00pm-5:00pm

Friday
9:30am-11:30am

Hours are also listed on the Ask-a-Librarian page.

Need help outside of AskLive hours?

If you submit a question other than the posted AskLive@Med hours, be sure you add your email address so we are able to contact you. You can also use the email form on the Ask-a-Librarian page.