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BCR Teams Up with McGraw-Hill
to Offer AccessMedicine Free Trial

By Rosario Garza
Beginning June 1, BCR and McGraw-Hill are offering BCR member libraries a free trial to AccessMedicine reference service. AccessMedicine is an innovative online service that provides the complete text of authoritative medical reference tools. The AccessMedicine clinical library includes the latest editions of the following medical reference works:

  • Harrison's Online
  • Hurst's the Heart online
  • CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment online
  • Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
  • Scriver's online The Metabolic & Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease

Along with these well-known medical reference titles, users also have access to the Lange Educational Library, both the Basic Science and Clinical Medicine titles.

And more is coming. Later this year, McGraw-Hill has announced that it will add the latest editions of Williams's Obstetrics, Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology and Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology to the AccessMedicine reference service.

Several self-assessment tools are included in AccessMedicine. Subscribers can prepare for the USMLE Step 1 or Step 2 exams with the USMLEasy self-assessment questions and answers. Or users can do self-assessment (including online scoring and answers, explanations and references) using Harrison's Online. Other features of the AccessMedicine service include access to:

  • Peer-reviewed content that is updated daily.
  • Hundreds of links to related sites.
  • Up-to-date drug information.
  • Live links to primary literature via PUBMED.
  • Photos, tables, treatment algorithms, diagnostic decision trees and other decision-making tools.

AccessMedicine includes a comprehensive and custom-designed search engine that allows users to search across all content. In addition, personalization features, like e-mail content to a colleague and the ability to download content to a mobile device such as a PDA, are available.

To sign up for the free trial, visit www.bcr.org/reference/Mcgraw/AccSciFAQ.html. Pricing information is available at this same link. Or, if you prefer, contact Rosario Garza (rgarza@bcr.org) or Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR.

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