A c t i o n f o r L i b r a r i e s — A u g u s t 2 0 0 5

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Edited by Brandie Baumann
McGraw-Hill Adds Emergency Medicine Online McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com now includes Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Online, a valuable addition to the knowledge base for hospital and research libraries. The database facilitates accurate diagnosis and treatment for all conditions seen in the emergency department. This powerful resource includes:

The complete text and illustrations of Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide, 6th Edition.
A full-featured search engine enhanced to deliver high-yield results for key concepts.
Hyperlinks throughout the database to detailed drug information in Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology drug database.
Daily updates on medical advances.
Reference links throughout the database to PubMed for quick access to primary literature.
Patient education from Postgraduate Medicine providing nearly 100 patient education topics on basic, but critical information that can be customized and printed out for patients.
Diagnoses are linked to search results for in-depth information and allow users to search by disease, symptom or organ system.
Free PDA downloads from the database.
The ability to e-mail content to a colleague, save searches and bookmark important information.

For more details and to sign up for a free 30-day trial, visit www.accessmedicine.com. Contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR for subscription and pricing information.

WilsonWeb Enhancements Implemented New enhancements to WilsonWeb are designed to enrich the search experience for all users. These include:

New interlibrary loan feature, using OpenURL technology.
New ability to export records directly to popular bibliographic management software EndNote and RefWorks.
New automatic citing of records using the MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association) formats.
New Searchable Help for easy location of topics.
New linking to the Journal Directory from the WilsonWeb interface automatically generating a customized list of journals for the database(s) being searched.
New three-window operation for the HTML and PDF full-text displays, permitting the viewing of search results while being able to read the full text of the article.

More information on these enhancements and more can be found at www.hwwilson.com/Documentation/WilsonWeb/enhancements/wweb_maintenance.htm. For subscription and pricing information, contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR.

OCLC FirstSearch News
New subscribers to the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) database through the OCLC FirstSearch service are eligible for a 25 percent discount on a two-year subscription when ordered by October 31. Institutions that do not have a current subscription to RIPM via any one of RIPM's publishing partners or institutions that have a current subscription to the RILM Abstracts of Music Literature database on any service as of May 1 are eligible for this discount.

The Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800-1950 database covers the history of music and musical life including contemporary information about composers, performers, critics, compositions, institutions, musical instruments and more. The database is comprised of more than 450,000 annotated citations drawn from a cumulative index to 179 volumes in the RIPM printed series and includes more than 233,000 reviews of musical performance and more than 9,600 biographical citations. Music researchers, scholars and performers get retrospective coverage of the international music literature published from the last 18th to the mid-20th centuries in both Europe and the United States.

For more information about the RIPM database, visit www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/details/RIPM.htm.

To subscribe to RIPM, contact BCR's Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org).

Since July 1, OCLC FirstSearch is no longer supporting the PAIS Archive and PAIS International databases on a per-search basis. For subscription information on alternate database options, contact BCR's Karen Graham at (kgraham@bcr.org).

ATLA Serials images are now hosted directly on OCLC services, allowing FirstSearch ATLAS subscribers direct access to the ATLAS full-text collection of more than 70 major religion and theology journals.

Users will find many new benefits, including:

Seamless and more timely access to ATLAS full text. No additional authentication is required, and libraries using proxy servers no longer need to adjust the configuration tables to allow access.
Elimination of firewall restrictions and other security issues associated with images being served on ATLA remote services.
Access to ATLAS full text images from more Web browsers/platforms. Browsers/platforms that are supported for FirstSearch also work for ATLAS images.
Ease in linking to ATLAS full text images via OpenURL.
Easier access for other FirstSearch database users who link to ATLAS full text.

Libraries do not need to make any changes to benefit from the improved authentication and service. Users will see a new full-text link, "View Full Text in GIF format (ATLA)," instead of "View Full Text on remote site (ATLA)." OCLC provides the same level of functionality that is available on ATLA remote servers.

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