- Document Delivery: You may request reprints of library materials or interlibrary loans of material not available from in-house collections.
- Research and Reference: Our Reference Staff is available to do research and mediated literature searches — just ask!
- Archival Access: For historic or archival research projects, contact library staff.
Library Resources
The Health Sciences Library serves the healthcare professionals of California Pacific Medical Center.
How to Use Library Resources
Books
Online Full Text Books: We have about 100 full text books online, accessible anytime, anywhere. No username and password needed within our hospital network.
All Books: see our Book Catalog
Journals
Online Full Text Journals: The library has made available thousands of online full text journals. No username and password needed within our hospital network.
Use: Our
Journals database to search for and access these journal titles.
OR
Use: PubMed
and click on the Full Text icon to obtain the printable online full text articles
purchased and made available to you from our various vendors (OVID, Ebsco, etc.).
Audio/Video
NEJM teaching procedural videos: Videos in Clinical Medicine
Topic Search
Search the biomedical literature with Medline via PubMed or OVID, and UpToDate's collection of over 1,000 topic reviews. PubMed will link you to full text articles provided by Ovid, Ebsco, and other vendors.
Search the nursing literature with PubMed and CINAHL with (partial) full text from Ebsco.
Search the health management literature with PubMed and EBSCO Health Business Elite.
Search for cancer information summaries with NCI's Cancer Database.
Search for clinical calculators via UpToDate.
Search for Complementary & Integrative Medicine.
Patient/Consumer Materials
Use: Health Information Library, Medline Plus, UpToDate, and California Pacific Medical Center Patient Education materials
E-Learning Resources
E-Learning Resources and Tools reviewed by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) E-Learning Committee lists publicly available tools for use in internal medicine residency education.
Online Tutorials
- PubMed Tutorial
- My NCBI Help
- Ebsco and Ovid Help – click on "Help" while in Ovid or Ebsco for interactive tutorials.