With effect from August 1, 2009, the loan quota and loan period of circulating books and bound journals and the maximum no. of renewal for the following categories of users will be increased:

[Update date: 3/8/2009]

Starting April 14, 2009, a new online form is available for all CUHK staff and students to request transferring circulating books (except reserve books and United College Library Language Collection) between the Medical Library and the campus libraries; and also from the Law Library to the Legal Resources Centre in Central.

The transfer of books between the Medical Library and any campus library and from the Law Library to the Legal Resources Center & Medical Library (For UL Law & UL Law Oversize books only) is free of charge. You may also submit request to change the pickup location of an item you have already placed hold before the Hold Pickup Notice has been sent. For details, please refer to Interbranch Book Delivery Service Home page.

[Updated: 27/4/2009]

Because of change in licence, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) will be removed from OvidSP on December 31, 2008. From January 1, 2009 onwards, an expanded version of CINAHL, CINAHL Plus, will be available in a new search interface EBSCOhost.

In addition to the original content of CINAHL, EBSCOhost’s CINAHL Plus also has the following new features:

1. Uniquely covers PreCINAHL, which is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles before they are available in CINAHL with full subject headings. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available.
2. Indexing for 3,802 important journals in nursing and allied health dating back to 1937, which has 870 titles more than that of CINAHL and two-thirds of the total are not included in MEDLINE.
3. Searchable cited references for more than 1,270 journals dating back to 1994.
4. Full-text materials include nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials, 71 of which are not available in other EBSCOhost full text databases.
5. Includes Evidence-Based Nursing Quick Lessons and 135 no. of full-text Evidence-based Care Sheets - a two-page portable document format (PDF) summaries of treatment care for many conditions and include a list of references for use at point-of-care.
6. Offers access to health care books, 385 nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, 37 standards of practice, educational software, audiovisual and book chapters.
7. Provides 360 no. of research instruments and all modules of the Continuing Education Modules.

Two training workshops of the database will be arranged in the coming E-resources Week:

1. February 4, 2009 (Wednesday) at 10:30 – 11:15 a.m.
2. February 5, 2009 (Thursday) at 3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Details will be announced later. All are welcome to join.

[Updated: 22/12/2008]

The following core databases and e-books were recently acquried to strengthen our support to scholarly research and learning of the Faculty: 

1. EMBASE Classic 1947-1973: This 27-year backfile of EMBASE indexes more than 1.8 million records from the biomedical and pharmacological literature and is drawn from 43 Excerpta Medica abstract print journals published between 1947 - 1973.  It covers approximately 3,400 international journals such as Cancer, Cardiovascular Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, as well as Adverse Reactions.

   Besides the addition of this new bibliographic database, EMBASE 1974 to 1979 is also acquired. In other words, EMBASE is now searchable from 1947 to present providing approximately 60 years of information regarding medical and drug-related subjects.

2. Ovid's E-books: A total of 164 titles of e-books selected from Doody's core list, a vigorously evaluated core list in health sciences covering 119 specialties in clinical medicine, basic sciences, nursing, allied health, and associated health professions, are now available, making the total of Ovid's e-books to 232 titles. The individual titles are available in E-books title list.

Other e-books collections that may interest you include:

1. Apabi - Chinese e-books covering medicine and hygiene 
2. Blackwell Reference Online - mainly covers humanities and social sciences, but has a few references on medicine and psychology
3. Gale Virtual Reference Library - encyclopedia work on medicine
4. NetLibrary - covers more than 45,000 titles representing a comprehensive inventory of trade, reference and STM content
5. Springer e-books - contains a great number of medical monographs and reference works

[Updated: 16/6/2008]

Medical Library has subscribed to following new electronic resources to further enhance our collection on pharmacy and pharmacology.  To access them, please go to the Databases page. 

AccessPharmacy

AccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education.  With over 23 books online mapped to the new ACPE core curriculum, AccessPharmacy provides digital access to leading resources, including:

• Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach
• Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
• Pharmacotherapy Casebook
• Basic & Clinical Pharmacology

A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy gives students the power to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks online, or search across leading pharmacy online references.

To help develop and track key skills, integrated case studies, care plans, a self-assessment module, and NAPLEX review provide critical feedback for students and teachers.

MedicinesComplete

1. Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference 

A trusted source for medicines information for over 120 years, Martindale provides synopses of treatment for more than 660 diseases and includes over 6,300 drug monographs, 149,000 preparations, 40,700 references and 14,700 manufacturers.

2. AHFS Drug Information

AHFS Drug Information includes thousands of point-by-point revisions and critical updates that goes beyond FDA-approved labeling.  It covers tens of thousands of individual drug products, monographs include: drug interactions; adverse reactions; toxicity; therapeutic perspective; specific dosage and administration information; preparations, chemistry, and stability; pharmacology and pharmacokinetics; contraindications; and more.

3. Stockley's Drug Interactions

Stockley's Drug Interactions provides the busy healthcare professionals with quick and easy access to clinically relevant, evaluated, and evidence-based information on interactions between therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foods, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse.

[Updated: 3/12/2007]

Besides free quota for local article requests, normal article requests to overseas libraries will be subsidized with effect from September 1, 2007.  Each article within quota will be charged a flat fee of HK$60.  All requests exceeding the quota will be charged at cost.  Expensive items such as duplication of theses / dissertations, special items, etc. are not covered.  Please refer to the following table for details:

 Please apply for this service through the online system ILLiad.

[Updated: 3/9/2007]

A new Library Room Booking System is now launched to enable you to reserve the library group discussion rooms online. From now on, you are able to:

• login the system using Student/Staff/Library ID and Password
• book any discussion rooms of the University Library System one week in advance at any time and at any place
• add, update and cancel bookings
• view bookings by library and by day, week and month
• receive confirmation e-mails on successful or cancelled bookings

Holders of valid CU Link Card or Library Card are allowed to book 1 session per day per library and 2 sessions per week per library starting from Sunday to Saturday. The minimum and maximum time of each session is 30 minutes and 120 minutes respectively. Teaching staff are allowed to make recursive bookings and advanced bookings up to 90 days. Please refer to FAQs for other details of booking policies.

[Updated: 6/8/2007]

With effect from June 1, 2007,  Medical Libray has been added as one of the pick up locations for HKALL items in addtion to the University Library.  That is, users can select Medical Library at PWH to pick up and check out the HKALL items directly.   The procedures of requesting the item are much the same:

1. Search the HKALL union catalogue; or CUHK Library Union Catalogue and then click the "HKALL button" at the top menu to see if the desired item is available in other UGC libraries.
2. If the item is found, then click "request this title" to place hold on the item. 
3. Follow the on-screen instruction to select your home library and then the Pickup Location.  You may now select "Medical Library at PWH" as the Pickup Location.
4. You will receive a Hold Pickup notice after the book has been delivered to the selected library. All students will receive an email Hold Pickup Notice.

The free delivery service of HKALL items between the Medical Library and the University Library will be continued for a short period of time.

[Updated: 4/6/2007]

The Medical Library is glad to announce that the following essential electronic resources including e-journals, databases, e-books and learning resources have been available from January 2007 onwards. These will serve to strengthen the Medical Library Collection to support your learning and research needs. More are forthcoming as our continual effort to enhance the quality of the collection.

E-Journals that are accessible from their websites:

1. New England Journal of Medicine
   
2. Science
   
3. Karger Journals Online
   
4. Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection
   • Provides access to all its 1,800 journals, many of them are on Medicine and Life Sciences subjects
   
   
5. LWW Legacy Archive of E-Journals
   • Provides immediate access to the backfiles of more than 200 journals in medicine, nursing and healthcare.  The coverage of each journal span from volume 1, issue 1 to the last issue of 1999.  They have been integrated seamlessly into Journals@Ovid with links to Ovid's MEDLINE and other databases on Ovid.

Learning Resources

1. BMJ Learning
   • An innovative learning resource that allows users to choose from its 300 interactive evidence based modules with real life case scenarios to test your skills and improve your learning.  In order to plan and record your learning, you have to create your own account with username and password to login the site. Please follow these simple steps.

Databases

1. Primal Pictures
   • Accessible on Ovid, Primal Pictures provides a dynamic interactive multi-media overview of human anatomy - from head to toe! This interactive resource is comprised of more than 20 learning and teaching modules covering basic human anatomy and focusing on one or more areas of the body. Also included are a study guide, test bank, and an optional test management system to build custom quizzes for students.
   
   
2. Global Health
   • Accessible on Ovid, Global Health includes comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature as well as significant unique content particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.

E-books

1. AccessMedicine
   • Provides access to more than 40 titles of McGraw-Hill's Clinical Library which includes Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment & much more, as well as the renowned LANGE Basic Science and LANGE CURRENT Clinical Science Series.

[Updated: 27/1/2007]

AccessSurgery is Now Available!  It is the first media-rich online resource for surgical education that combines McGraw-Hill references with surgical videos and animations. Organized by key topics to reflect the Accreditation College for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) mandate for a general surgery core curriculum, it helps address two of the ACGME's core competencies of medical knowledge and practice-based learning and improvement.

Continuously evolving, AccessSURGERY delivers text updates, editor's journal reviews, and video podcasts (vodcasts) that highlight key surgical techniques from the editors of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery. This fully integrated resource also includes a comprehensive drug database updated in real-time, one-click access to related government guidelines, a differential diagnosis tool with over 100 symptoms and diseases, and detailed cancer staging tables.

[Updated: 18/12/2006]