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Library Services

The library offers a wide variety of services.  We temporarily collect personal information such as your name, email, or other contact information and keep statistics on use of a service,  but once the service request is completed this information is purged from our system  All requests are kept confidential.  Our services are limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists but some of our collections can be used or accessed by anyone. 

 

Obtaining information  Information Requests and Research  Loan Services  Collections FAQ

Equipment Computers Photocopy Service

Updating Knowledge Workshops or Training Continuing Education Updating Services

Information Requests and Research 

Have our staff find you a book or journal article from our collection. We do not charge for our services.  

• Submit a book request
• Submit a Journal Article request
• Email Us! with questions.

We also will search the literature and find you a list of articles or other information on your topic. We generally are able to do your literature search the same day you send it. We are always willing to give you expert instruction on how to search the literature for yourself.

• Submit a literature search request
• Email Us! with questions.

We also provide answers to reference questions.  This includes facts, statistics, addresses, etc.  We are always willing to discuss your  information needs. 

• Email Us! with questions.

Loan Services

a.  Circulation Service

Books and audiovisual materials within our collection may be checked out by Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists for two weeks.  Reference books and journals DO NOT CIRCULATE.  Borrowed materials may be renewed, unless another patron has requested the item.  Notices will be sent for overdue items, followed by a bill for the cost of replacement if the item is not returned.  We can send the book in the inter-department mail or by courier. Just submit a book request

b.  Interlibrary Loan Service

Our library can get materials from many other libraries.  Items are normally  take from 1-7 working days.
• Submit a book request
• Submit a Journal Article request
• Email Us! with questions.

There is no charge for this service. You can also request articles from us through the Loansome Doc service.  Users may usually borrow book materials from other libraries on interlibrary loan for two weeks.  They must be returned by the due date assigned by the ILL staff.  Materials not generally available through ILL include test materials, thesis, newspaper articles, entire issues or volumes of periodicals, dissertations, audiovisual materials, computer programs and videos.  The library adheres to copyright laws for any borrowed materials.  

c. Loansome Doc Service

You can search the PUBMED database, then electronically request articles from Overlake Hospital Medical Center's Medical Library via the NLM's Loansome Doc inter-library loan program directly! This request is sent immediately to the Overlake Hospital Medical Library for processing. There is a limit of 5 articles in one journal issue.  

Here are the steps for requesting a document:

1. You must first complete a Loansome Doc Registration Form.  You will be given a UserID and password.  Please remember these. Registration and use of the service is free. 
   
2. Search PUBMED and select the article(s) you need. Click on the 'Order' button. Enter your UserID and Password. Follow any onscreen instructions and your order will then be sent to the library for processing.
   
3. When you fill in information about your order you can include special instructions or information such as how you want to receive your request: by mail, fax, library pick up, or email (if available). 
   
4. You will receive the order directly  from the library that fills it if the Overlake Hospital Medical Center Medical Library does not own the title. This speeds up your receipt of the article since it does not come to our library first.

 

Continuing Education

ACOG  or ABOG Service  

The library will provide you with articles required for the ACOG continuing education modules.  We are not members of ACOG so you need to submit your list of readings to the library for distribution.  Please Email Us! if you want to be added to this service.

Updating Services  

A.  Table of Content  and News Alerting Services

The library can access a number of table of content alerting services.  You need to set these up for yourself.  They include Email Based Services or feed based services.

1. Email based services

a) OVID 

Ovid provides an e-TOC service.  Access the OVID database.  Choose Browse Your Journals@Ovid.  Search for your favorite journal.  On the top choose "Manage e-TOC subscriptions".  Enter your email address. This will take you to the OVID e-TOC management screen.  You can add or delete journal titles to this screen.  The next time any journal on your list is published, you will be sent an alert via email that a new issue has been added to OVID.  Just follow that link, sign into OVID, and you will be taken to the new issue.

b) Science Direct (Elsevier) 

Science Direct provides access to over 1700 journals published by Elsevier. Only some of this collection will be available in full-text format. To begin this process login to Science Direct and proceed to the Journals (click on “journals” on the top menu bar.  Browse journals for which you would be interested in establishing TOC alerts. Click on My alerts on the top navigation bar.  Next, proceed through the registration process. You will be prompted to provide a password. After your username and password are confirmed, proceed to the login screen and login with your new account. On the next screen choose Journal Issues Alert.  Browse for your journal title and then click the “add” link to put the desired journals in the box on the right side of the screen. When a new issue of your journal(s) is published you will receive an e-mail message containing the table of contents and links to the articles and issue.

c) Scholars Portal Service

The Scholars Portal provides access to full text journals published by Academic Press, Elsevier Science, Kluwer (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Kluwer Law International, Kluwer/Plenum, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. The Scholar's Portal Alerts service can be used to receive tables of contents of journals by e-mail. First, you will need to register for an account to create a username and password. To begin using the Alerts service, click on the logon link on the top left of the Scholars Portal home page and log in using your username and password. To obtain tables of contents, browse the journals by title or publisher. When the issue information for a journal is displayed, you can click on New Issue Alerts: Add this Journal to create a table of contents alert. 

d) ProQuest - 

Click on the "Publications" tab. Browse for journal title and select. Click "set up alert"  from publication page.

 No registration is required; you just need to provide an email address

d) PubMed

PubMed offers a journal updating service.  This is described in the following PubMed tutorial.

 

2. Feed based services

a) What is an RRS feed?

RRS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.  RRS feeds provide a title, headline and sometimes an abstract or a snapshot of selected content of sources or websites to which the user has subscribed.  The RSS or XML icon is evident on a site which allows a feed. To read a feed you must first subscribe to it using an Feed reader or a feed service on the Web

b) Feed readers

 A good site that lists feed readers is the RSS Compendium - RSS Readers website  or RSSfeeds.com.

The 3 most common browsers (Google, Mozilla, or Internet Explorer) all offer feeds.  I personally use Google.  To use Google you need a Google account.

1. Go to Google and click on more and then click on Reader.  Log into your Google account (if you have one) or click Create An account.  click on the "Add subscription" table located on the upper left frame.  Type the RSS feed url into the box and click add.  Google provides several tutorial type pages on RRS which incude http://www.wikihow.com/Add-RSS-Feeds-to-Your-Google-Personalized-Homepage.

c) Web based feeds

There are several programs or services which convert RRS feeds into feeds that can be displayed on a personal web page.  Here is a list of just a few of these.

d) Journal Table of Contents Feeds

Journal Table of Contents Service

OVID Table of Content Service

Proquest Table of Content Service

Journal Table of Contents Service -- Journal Table of Contents Service is a free commercially based service which requires registration.  It allows you to search through the table of contents of over 13,000 journals, select and save journal titles to view future TOCs; and then export these to your RSS feed reader.

OVID Table of Content Service -  Read the OVID tutorial on how to subscribe to a feed.

Proquest Table of Content Service - Click on the "Publications" tab. Browse for journal title and select. Click on the RRS icon if it is available.

e) Popular Medical and Health News Feeds

Medscape | New York Times Health News | Reuters Health News| Pubcrawler  

f) Popular Journal and Journal Publisher's Feeds

BMJ | JAMA | NEJM

 

B. Database Search Updating Services

To help keep you up to date with new developments in your field, the Medical Library can provide you with an updated bibliography each month, on the topic(s) of your choice.  For those who want to do this themselves, here are a few resources to try:

My NCBI (Pubmed)	Medfetch	OVID
ProQuest	AMEDEO service	Scholars Portal Service

 

a.  NCBI (PubMed)

My NCBI, offered through PubMed, provides users with a personalized online "storage space" for searches.  These search statements are stored and updated periodically. You need to first register for the service.  Read more about NCBI.

b. Medfetch

MedFetch is a web based software program for querying the world's greatest medical databases. As new information is added, MedFetch scans the database according to your search terms. Once you set up an Automated Medline Query (AMQ), any NEW citation that is added to the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE which matches your search terms, will be e-mailed directly to you.To use this service, you will need to Register  and set up your Automated Medline Queries according to the instructions given at this site. Any matches in the last 30 days are e-mailed to you. From then on, the search is run over and over again. You do not receive duplicates.

c.  OVID

You can create AutoAlerts in OVID to periodically receive the results of saved searches. To create an AutoAlert, undertake a search on any topic. When the search results appear, click on Save Search History and activate the radio button for AutoAlert (SDI) Service. The first time you create an alert you will need to register your details with OvidSP. To do this click on Create a new Personal account and enter your details in the boxes provided. Create your alert by selecting AutoAlert from the drop down menu, choose a name for your search, enter your email address and then select the format and schedule of your alert. Finally click on the Save search button to create your alert.If you wish to get immediate search results from your new alert before the first automatic update, you can manually run it from the Saved Searches page. When running it manually, select a date range override, rather than the Latest Update option, to ensure best results.

d. Proquest

Perform your search.  Click the Set up Alert button.  No registration is required; you just need to provide an email address.  You will be presented with various options which include how often you wish to have this search run.  

e. Amedeo Service  

AMEDEO.com  provides a free weekly email of discipline-specific citation lists, as well as a personal web page with abstracts and a 12-24 month literature overview. To get the most from AMEDEO, register, select a medical area and favorite medical journals and submit the request form to receive the weekly emails. 

f. Scholars Portal  

The Scholars Portal provides access to 3,193 full text journals published by Academic Press, Elsevier Science, Kluwer (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Kluwer Law International, Kluwer/Plenum, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. The Scholar's Portal Alerts service can be used to receive the results of saved searches .Prior to using the Alerts service, you will need to register for an account to create a username and password. To begin using the Alerts service, click on the logon link on the top left of the Scholars Portal home page and log in using your username and password.  To periodically receive the results of a saved search, search on a topic of your choice and when the results appear click on the Save Search option.

C. Up To Date  

Up To Date  provides up to date medical information on over 7000 topics.  It includes a drug database as well as links to Medline abstracts, illustrations and texts. You must be within the Overlake Hospital to gain access.  An Up-To-Date Tutorial is available here.   Find the most important new medical findings since the last release.  Search for drug interactions using Lexi-Interact Online.

Workshops or Training

From time to time the Library will provide workshops for groups  or individual training.  Please  Email Us to set up an appointment.  Information and ways to access it are constantly changing.  Please feel free to ask how to do something at any time.

We also provide links to a wide variety of database tutorials.. 

Computers

For your convenience there are two public access workstations available in the library for literature searching. These computers have Word, Access, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.

Photocopy Service

A photocopy machine is available in the library for copying of library materials at no charge. All users are encouraged to do their own photocopying. The library staff has first priority to the photocopier. We adhere to the  Copyright Compliance Law when photocopying.  If the library sends you a photocopy you may keep it.  

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