The Health Sciences Library provides access to nearly 200 electronic textbooks. One of the most popular texts we have is the online version of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Close to 450 Harrison’s Online searches are performed each month. Harrison’s Online is provided by Access Medicine.Access Medicine offers many features that enhance the value of the e-text.
Ten things you didn’t know about Harrison’s Online:
- Searching – Autosuggest. Type in a key word or phrase for a list of possible search queries . Search suggestions come from the AccessMedicine lexicon of thousands of symptoms, disorders, and drug names.
- RSS feed. You can set up a feed for the latest updates.
- Podcasts. Have a blackberry or IPod? Get your updates via podcasts.
- Browse-ability. There is an A-Z index for those who just want to browse through the online index.
- Table of Contents search. Like the print verison, there is a Table of Contents.
- Linked References. Want to get to the full text of the references at the end of the chapter? No problem. Click on the PMID link which will lead you to PubMed.
- Download a Chapter. Need to have the information provided in a chapter at your fingertips? Download the chapter to your PDA.
- Large figures and graphs. Click of a figure or graph to display it full screen
- CME Credit – Grand Rounds. IPMA designates this feature for a maximum of .5 Category 1 credits toward the Physician’s Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
- Additional resources. Because the Library has a subscription to Harrison’s Online through Access Medicine, you have access to the following addition resources:
- A full text, interactive drug resource
- An image database which contain some animated images (real-time echocardiographs)
- Diagnosaurus – a differential diagnosis tool
- Patient Education Information
For more information about this or an other electronic textbook, contact a reference librarian at researchservices@lumc.edu or 6-9192.
