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The
Chandler Medical Center
Library home
page contains many valuable information resources. Part of these
resources is access to the
University
of Kentucky Proxy Server, a service that allows off-campus
users access to IP-restricted products.
What is Available?
All UK Community-Based Faculty may use the University
of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center Proxy Server to access major UK
resources from off campus locations.
Major health-related resources include:
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Major health databases: MEDLINE,
HealthSTAR, CINAHL, CANCERLIT, PsycINFO, AGELINE, Biological
Abstracts and TOXLINE. (All can be accessed via SilverPlatter.)
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Electronic journals: The Medical
Center Library has an extensive list of full-text journals. An
alphabetical list of full-text journal titles can be accessed from
the E-Journals link located on the Quick Links section of the Medical Center Library home page.
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MD Consult is a full-text product that
provides access to medical reference books, medical journals, drug
information, clinical practice guidelines, patient education
information and continuing-education credit.
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Web of Science contains an electronic
back file for the past 10 years of Science Citation Index
Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities
Citation Index.
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LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe provides
nearly 5,000 publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted)
covering news, financial, medical and legal information.
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Scientific American Medicine Online (SAM
Online) is a text of internal medicine that is thoroughly
referenced to the primary literature.
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Evidence-based medicine resources: The
Cochrane Library contains systematic reviews on the effects of
health care and a large controlled-trials register.
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Consumer Health Resources, Health
Reference Center provides access to a wide variety of personal
health information sources, including the full text of many
reference books, health information pamphlets and selected full
text from many professional journals, including Journal of the
American Medical Association, Hospitals and Health Networks,
Contemporary Drug Problems, American Journal of Law and Medicine
and Nursing.
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Well-Connected is a comprehensive and
current database of patient education materials written for the
health care consumer. Each article is written and updated by
experienced medical writers and reviewed and edited by the
in-house editors and a board of physicians at Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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InfoKat: This UK Web-based catalog
contains books, journals and audiovisual materials from the UK
Library system. It also has links to other college catalogs.
Sounds great, but how do I access the Proxy Server?
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You must complete and submit a Medical Center Off-Campus Users
Proxy Registration Form at this link:
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=210&llib_id=12.
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For information on how to use the Proxy Server, go to this link:
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/page.php?lweb_id=16.
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For
any questions about the Proxy Server or any other UK Chandler Medical
Center Library program, please call Information and Education
Services at (859) 323-8285 or (859) 323-5296;
or e-mail at mclib@uky.edu.
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Comments to Mike
Richardson, Last Modified: April 25, 2008
Copyright © 2000, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center
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