Services and Resources for Staff
Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Administration, Clinical Staff and Affliates.
Collection Resources
Call the library to obtain information about our lending and reference policies and procedures.
There is a wide array of print and online medical journals, books, reference materials, and multimedia available in the Library and through dual-mode access. Materials not available in this Library can be borrowed through interlibrary loan from other local libraries or through regional and national cooperative networks. A reasonable amount of library material can be photocopied in the Library free of charge.
Current Awareness Service
Is it difficult to find the time to keep up on the current literature? Would you like to browse the literature outside your specialty? A current table-of-contents of our print journal subscriptions is available through the Health Sciences Library. Call the Library for more information at: 650-991-6700.
HouseCalls: Internet Point of Care Instruction Service
A free personal one-on-one or small group instruction service for authorized staff. This service is designed to teach patrons how to use online and onsite library resources. Presentations for individual departments are available upon request. Call the Library for an appointment at: 650-991-6315.
Literature Searches and Reference Services
The Library team will honor simple or complex research/literature review requests on first come, first serve basis. We also provide traditional reference services and can help you locate answers to factual questions and much more! Research requests, clinical and non-clinical questions are answered for authorized staff. Call us at 650-991-6700.
Multimedia
A TV/VCR, DVD players, copiers and public computers are available on a first come, first serve basis. Library users may view videos, DVDs, Internet webcasts and/or interactive tutorials. Ask the Library staff for headphones for a complete audio-visual experience. The links below will direct you to web-based and interactive audio-visual educational resources.
Discovery Health Channel contains an interactive body atlas providing in-depth demonstrations of more than 240 common diseases and disorders—from prostate to breast cancer to ear infections. You'll learn about their causes and treatments.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
Healthy Roads Media is a free multimedia website. Literacy, health-literacy, illness, aging, disability and language are all issues that can pose barriers to obtaining basic health information. This site contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats.
Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour is provided by the Alzheimer's Association, contains sixteen interactive slides of illustrations, accompanied by informative text. An excellent selection of links to additional information on the brain, such as the Harvard University Whole Brain Atlas, is also available.
Inside Cancer is a multimedia guide to Cancer biology. An overview of the hallmarks of cancer, causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and pathways to cancer.
JAMA Multimedia Index Page includes video supplements, JAMA interactive, audio commentaries, and video reports CME, and "Author in the Room" teleconferences.
MayoClinic.com Health Tools: Video helps patients and health care consumers learn about diseases, conditions and medical procedures by watching a web-based video.
MedlinePlus® Health Tools is a virtual one-stop-shop that contains: Interactive Health Tutorials and Body Location/Systems maps; Health Check Tools; Easy to Read handouts; and information for Low Vision Users. Requires Flash plug in 6 or above.
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) videos in clinical medicine. This series of teaching videos is intended to help students, trainees, and younger physicians to learn procedural techniques from experienced colleagues. The journal's ultimate goal is to provide effective clinical instruction and improved patient care.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. Public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public are welcome to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.
PubMed® Online Training is a web-guide of "quick tours" that shows you how to search PubMed. The question and answer approach addresses common questions about searching PubMed.
Safety Leaders TMIT Briefing Center provides rapid access to very important information shared by leaders in the quality and patient safety movement. Streaming video clips of interviews and presentations are provided for easy viewing and access. The briefings will be updated on a periodic basis and the full library will grow over time.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contains up-to-date patient pages, news releases and online videos available free of charge. News releases are brief summaries of original research articles and editorials published in JAMA and the Archives Journals written in lay persons' terms. Videos also summarize the results and implications of studies published in JAMA. Video transcripts are available as well.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Patient Safety News is a televised series for health care personnel, carried on satellite broadcast networks aimed at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. It features information on new drugs, biologics and medical devices, on FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and on ways to protect patients when using medical products.