The recent buzz of correspondance in the South West
concerning access to full-text electronic medical journals
has prompted me to mention our electronic journals webpage
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~jmaxted/ejournal.html
Here we have been gathering a rapidly growing list of such
journals. There are restrictions imposed by the publishers
on accessing some of the titles which may only be available
on our Trust network. There are a surprising number however
that are available over the internet with little or no
restriction, either on long-term free trial or as a matter
of publishers' policy. Nor are they insignificant freebies.
If anyone else, particularly in SWRLIN, is thinking along
the same lines as us, I suggest you have a look at our
site. It could save an awful lot of work being duplicated
around the region.
Our main website at
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~jmaxted/librarypage.html
was initially intended to address the difficulties of our
own users, many of whom cannot readily gain access to our
resources during the working day. The Exeter Medical
Library website has rapidly expanded to prove an invaluable
resource to anyone seeking a quick starting point for
(primarily) UK health care information on the Internet. It
provides a host of useful resources for clinicians, nurses,
librarians and patients. It is of particular value to those
working in the South and West as it is directed to local as
well as national resources. We have purposely designed the
site to be as quick and as simple as possible as speed of
access to the resources is vital. Like Topsy though, it has
"just growed" and we are permanently having to consider
where new sites should be located.
Our latest addition is a page of freely available online
medical textbooks and colour atlases. (Mainly American,
suggestions for British material appreciated.)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~jmaxted/textbook.html
With this page we have aimed to provide a point of quick
access to textbooks that we have looked at and feel to be
of value to health care personnel, providing them with an
embryonic "virtual" Exeter Medical Library 24 hours a day.
Any suggestions, either for resources for inclusion or new
directions, from fellow health care librarians would be
welcome. I know many libraries are, like us, starting to
appreciate that placing their resources on the internet,
where they can be of value to all, has distinct advantages
over restricting them to their own Trusts intranet or even
the NHS Net. The BMA has produced a national register of
such sites, so if they do not yet know of your site, it
would be well worth informing them of it. This, in the
fullness of time, should help make life easier for the NeLH
when it gets around to mapping local resources.
Jill Maxted.
Jill Maxted (University of Exeter)
Exeter Medical Library, Postgraduate Medical Centre,
Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW. Tel. 01392 403002
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VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~jmaxted/librarypage.html
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