AccessMedicine Helps Health Professionals

AccessMedicine is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and other health professionals with access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine.  The database includes updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and diagnostic tools.  AccessMedicine provides a comprehensive search platform and enables users to download content to a mobile device.   Available by remote access too.

UA Libraries Sponsor Book Collecting Contest

Do you love books?  Are you a book collector?  If so, you are invited to  enter the UA Libraries 2010 Book Collecting Contest.  Cash prizes will be awarded to contest winners.  Deadline for entries is March 31, 2010.  For contest rules and an entry form, consult our Web site.   Collections of contest winners will be featured in a display in Gorgas Library for six weeks after the contest ends.   Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to showcase your collection.  The entire UA community will enjoy!

More E-Books on the Way

Publishers are offering more e-books for sale.  Rodgers Library has responded by ordering major collections of science and engineering e-books from Springer and Elsevier for 2010.  As soon as Springer and Elsevier release the e-books, titles will show up in SpringerLink and ScienceDirect.  All new e-books purchased by Rodgers Library are also listed in the UA Libraries online catalog.  So access to e-books is easy and direct.   Quick links to our e-book publishers are on our Web site.     Enjoy!