Message from the Director: Dana Offers Services to Vermont Clinicians Unaffliliated with UVM or Fletcher Allen

While some may say that “everything is free and available on the Internet” medical professionals know that the full-text of all published journal articles or medical textbooks is not available online – even from Google. The PubMed database is free to search but often only citations and abstracts are available for free, and ordering from [...]

EndNote How-To

One of Dana’s most-used services is assistance with EndNote. And now, thanks to librarian Angie Chapple-Sokol, a new Online Resource Guide [http://danaguides.uvm.edu/Endnote] has been created to assist patrons in their use of EndNote, the bibliographic management software that helps organize your references and produce bibliographies for the preparation of papers and grants. This guide covers [...]

New Online Resources

Indiana Pathology Images: Mycology
Dana Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new resource, the Indiana Pathology Images™ Mycology database.
From their description:
“The Indiana Pathology Images™ Mycology database, containing more than 600 photomicrographs, was developed for the purpose of providing a visual atlas that would serve as a resource for students and practitioners alike. The [...]

New Book Highlights

To your health : achieving well-being during medical school by Wolf, Thomas M., 1944- (Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] : Sage Publications, 2001)
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Publisher Description:

“How is it possible to maintain a healthy balance between your personal and academic life during medical school? Quite a challenge! This is a practical, hands-on, experiential [...]

Spotlight on: Access Science 2.0

A core reference resource in the sciences for many years has been the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. UVM Libraries also subscribes to  McGraw-Hill AccessScience 2.0 — the enhanced online version of this product.
This database provides full text access to over 8500 online articles, 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical [...]

Fletcher Allen’s Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center: An Interview with the Coordinator

For years now, the Dana Medical Library has worked collaboratively with the Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center, Fletcher Allen Hospital’s patient medical library, but we’re often asked:

What is the Frymoyer and what do they do?

The Dana Medical Library Newsletter sat down with Alan Lampson, Coordinator of Fletcher Allen’s Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center, to find [...]

Community Medical School Returns

The Community Medical School lecture series began in 1998 and was designed to provide people in the community with an opportunity to share in the medical learning experience. The program advisory committee includes: basic science and clinical faculty members from the University of Vermont College of Medicine; a medical student; and members of the College [...]

New Resources

Reaxys
University of Vermont Libraries are pleased to announce the addition of Reaxys, a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.
Reaxys provides access to the content from Beilstein, Gmelin and the Patent Chemistry database and replaces the existing CrossFire service.
Features include:

Synthesis planner to design the optimum synthesis route
Multi-step reactions [...]

Spotlight on DynaMed

DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool designed for health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. DynaMed consists of nearly 2000 clinically-relevant topic summaries created through review of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. DynaMed also includes over 800 topic summaries from AHFS Drug Information®. Licensed through UVM’s Dana Medical Library and [...]

Welcome New Residents!

Dana Medical Library staff welcomed some 55 new residents to the Library on June 17, 2009. New Fletcher Allen House Staff were greeted by librarians who introduced Library services and resources and answered residents’ questions.
While most residents did not have their FAHC badges at the time, many have since returned to the Library with new [...]