Oxford Medicine Online has a new look with increased functionality, you can read a guide to what’s new on the OxMed website. Within this resource we currently subscribe to:
- Oxford Handbook of Neurology
- Oxford Handbook of Cardiology
- Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine
- Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice
- Oxford Handbook of Oncology
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
- Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology
- Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills
- Oxford Handbook of General Practice
- Oxford Handbook of Paediatrics
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
- Oxford Textbook of Medicine
You can sign-up in under a minute to create your own profile which allows you to save searches alongside your favourite books or individual chapters and will alert you to any changes to your favourite resources. You can still print and download material to pdf as well as save it online. If staff want to use the content in their lectures images, diagrams and charts can be downloaded to PowerPoint slides.
You can also attend a virtual training session to gain an overview of the content and to chat to the company staff. The timetable for seminars within Europe is available online. The next online event related to medical resources is on July 19th 2012 at 11am
Accessing the material electronically means you are always up to date. As an example the version of the Oxford Handbook of Medicine that was published in paper format in 2010 was updated online in spring of 2012 with the following, ‘all 121 chapters in the infection section reviewed and comprehensively updated by the contributors and editors, and key developments added to 11 chapters from other sections. 26 chapters have been reviewed and confirmed as being up-to-date. New topics include E. coli 0104:H4, multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria responses to the threat of pandemic influenza, and emerging infectious diseases.’ Source Warrell, D., Cox, T., & Firth, J. (n.d.). Oxford Textbook of Medicine. . Retrieved 2 Jul. 2012, from
http://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780199204854.001.1/med-9780199204854
If you think the Library should purchase full text access to a title that isn’t listed above just fill out the book suggestion form that we have online or contact your relevant College Librarian.
Categories: Library
Tags: database update, ebooks, life sciences
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