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| Library Access |
| Library Collection |
| Borrowing Rules |
| Online Access |
| Health Information for Patients and Their Families |
| Miscellaneous |
| Library Access |
The library is open to all Winthrop employees. It is not open to the general public.
The library's hours are posted outside the library and on this website's About page.
The copy machine is in the back left corner of the library. All members of the Winthrop staff may use the copy machine free of charge for copying library materials.
| Library Collection |
You may find this information in the library's OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) computer in the lounge area of the library, or online at library.winthrop.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/0/0/0/49.
All journals older than the current volume are found in the archives room, near the study carrels.
Because subscription prices are very high, the library subscribes to those journals that get the most use. Please note, however, that we can get for you almost any journal article that you need. Just bring, fax (663-8171), e-mail (cbennett@winthrop.org), or call the circulation desk (663-2802) with an Ovid or PubMed citation.
| Borrowing Rules |
All employees of Winthrop may borrow from the library. All you need to do is register at the circulation desk. If you are a resident or a student, please bring the papers you received from the Academic Affairs office. Please note that you must sign out when your term is over. All materials must be returned and fines paid before you may sign out from the hospital.
BOOKS: If the book is shelved toward the front of the library, it will have REF at the beginning of its call number; it is a reference book and does not circulate. All of the books in the rear of the library may be borrowed.
JOURNALS: Only hardcover journals and selected other journal titles may be borrowed.
MEDIA: All items in the computer lab may be borrowed.
Books may be taken out for 2 weeks, circulating journals and media from the computer lab for 1 week.
Reference and reserve materials, computer applications, and most journals do not circulate.
You may have 6 items out at any given time.
No. You may call the library at 663-2802 to renew an item or you may drop in. You do not need to have the book with you.
The library charges 20 cents per day for overdue books. If you are going to be away when a book is due or you know that you will need it for longer than the usual term, please call the library at 663-2802.
| Online Access |
At the library's Staff Login page, enter the username and password, which the library staff will give you. At the bottom of the page, click on "Journal Holdings." You will see an alphabetical list of all journals to which the library has print and/or online access. Before you click on a journal's link, please be sure to look in the username/password column to see if there is information that you will need once you get to the publisher's website. Also look in the "Notes" column to see if there are restrictions on access.
If a journal's link takes you to the Ovid website, click on "Continue." Then click on "Your Journals@Ovid." On the right side of that page, click on "Browse Journals." Click on "Browse Journals (A-Z) and then on the issue list of the chosen journal.
If you want access to online journals at Ovid from outside the hospital network, you need an Athens account (registration instructions). Contact Melissa Spangenberg at 663-8197 or by e-mail for more information.
If a journal's link takes you to MDConsult, log in with the username and password that the library staff will give you. You must then click on "Advanced Search" at the top of the page. On the left side of the next page, click on the "Search Within" drop-down and choose "Journals/MEDLINE" at the left of the next page. Then search for your journal article.
If a journal's link takes you to the Thomson/Gale website, click on "Health Reference Center Academic" and do your search.
Some journals are accessible only from the hospital network. Isn't there some way that I can get those journals from home? Logging in to journals is time consuming. Is tehre some way to streamline the process?Athens is authentication software that enables full-text online access to many of the library’s journals anywhere any time with only one username and password. It has two great advantages: 1. It acts in a way similar to a proxy server in that after you log in to the Athens website, your computer appears to publishers’ websites as being on the hospital network. Consequently, those journals that are currently accessed through IP—a growing number of publishers are setting up access in this way--can now be accessed from outside of the network, i.e., from a home or office computer that is not on the WUH campus. 2. It allows users to log in once at the Athens website and be able to gain access to many of our online journals that now have a multitude of logins. Currently, our users must log in to the library’s website and look for the username and password for each journal they need to access.
In order to access online Journals at Ovid from outside the hospital network, you need an Athens account (Registration Instructions). Contact Melissa Spangenberg at 663-8197 or by e-mail for more information.
The library's PubMed shortcut takes you to a special PubMed website. Use this URL--you can set it in your favorites or put a shortcut on your desktop--if you want to see articles' availability at the library: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=nyunsh_fft_ndi.
The library's UpToDate license is for in-hospital network access only.
Links to online textbooks can be found on the library website's Staff page. Please call the library at 663-2802 for the username and password. Books on CD are shelved in the computer lab.
If you go to the Medical Websites link on the library's website, you will find a long list of websites that may be of help.
| Health Information for Patients and Their Families |
While the library is for the use of Winthrop staff we do have a small collection of consumer health books in the reference section, and a long list of reliable consumer websites.
| Miscellaneous |
You can order books from Rittenhouse and get a 10% discount. You pay no tax or shipping. Order forms are available on the shelves underneath the library's movie collection. They are also accessible through the library's Information Resources page. You can also purchase--at great prices--used books from the cart near the circulation desk.
You can find Arts & Humanities books and tapes in the lounge area and in the photocopier room.
There is also a "Give a Book / Take a Book" shelf near the library entrance. You are welcome to take any of these books even if you do not have a book to leave.
For your entertainment, the library also offers a small collection of circulating movies--drama, comedy, horror, romance--whose main characters are doctors or nurses, or whose theme is medically related.
The library has the weekday New York Times, which we keep for a week. We keep the Science sections for several months.
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