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Abstract + citation + full textAccessDermatologyDxRx is a comprehensive resource for all physicians and other healthcare providers including medical students, dermatology residents, internists, oncologists, and infectious disease specialists. With thousands of images that include all of the essential information to help you with clinical decision-making, this resource covers the full scope of dermatologic conditions.
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Daily Full textMcGraw-Hill’s AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions. Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
NOTE: You need to create an individual account via MyAccess, and you must sign in every 90 days through the libraries in order to keep your account active. This individual account is required to have access to AccessMedicine off-campus.
N.B. “USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONFIRM THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON ANY OF THE ACCESSMEDICINE SITES, WlTH OTHER SOURCES. FOR EXAMPLE, AND IN PARTICULAR, USERS ARE ADVISED TO CHECK THE PRODUCT INFORMATION SHEET INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE OF EACH DRUG THEY PLAN TO ADMINISTER TO BE CERTAIN THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN ANY OF THE ACCESSMEDICINE SITES IS ACCURATE AND THAT CHANGES HAVE NOT BEEN MADE IN THE RECOMMENDED DOSE OR IN THE CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION”.
Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing Current Daily Full textAccessPharmacyTM from McGraw-Hill is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, search across leading pharmacy online references and view optimized content on a mobile device.
Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics 1996- present Monthly Full text The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society provides the worldwide scientific community with a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences. LAU Libraries subscribe to 40 journals from ACS Publications (including 5 copublished with other scientific societies).
N.B. Chemical & Engineering News, Reagent Chemicals, Division Proceedings or C&EN Online are not yet part of our subscription.
Medicine, pathology 2012–present (Fifth Series) Irregular (new fascicles published as available). Full-textAmerican Registry of Pathology (ARP) provides high-quality educational resources and reference materials for pathologists worldwide, supporting the study and practice of pathology.
Medicine, Pharmacy varies by title Full text + abstractThe American Society of Microbiology (ASM) journals provide access to up-to-date and authoritative publications in the field of basic and clinical microbiology.
Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing Current Full text + abstract + citationElsevier’s ClinicalKey is a “clinical insight engine” that provides access to Elsevier’s current medical and surgical content It is built from the ground up on Smart Content tagged from Elsevier’s proprietary EMMeT taxonomy. It allows you to share the clinically relevant answers you find. ClinicalKey provides access to 800+ books in every medical discipline; 500+ top journals; 9,000+ videos of surgical procedures and other techniques.
You need to create your personal account within LAU network, by clicking on “Register” and following the registration steps.
For off-campus access use your personal account by clicking on: https://www.clinicalkey.com
ClinicalKey replaces MDConsult
Medicine, Nursing Quarterly Full textThe Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. It is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
Collection Development Tool, Health Sciences, Medicine Full bibliographic recordDoody’s Review Service (formerly Doody’s Electronic Journal) is a collection development tool for the health sciences. Download Product Sheet (PDF)
Access available via username and password (for library staff only).
Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing 1974-present Abstract + citation + full textEmbase is a comprehensive biomedical database that focuses on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine. It provides access to bibliographic citations to more than 8,500 biomedical journal articles from over 95 countries.
Medicine Current Abstract + full textThis site provides free access to selected medical journals published in English and other languages such as French, German, and Spanish. Browsable by subject, alphabetically and by language.
Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Sciences Current Monthy Full text The JAMA Network brings JAMA together with the nine JAMA specialty journals to offer enhanced access to the research, reviews, and perspectives shaping the future of medicine. Through a variety of innovative tools, The JAMA Network provides the insights that matter most to medical research and practice.
Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing Current Monthly Citation+abstract+full text+full text linkThe LWW Total Access Collection is an expansive collection of all LWW journals available on OvidSP and that cater to your intensive medical information needs. This collection brings you just about every one of LWW’s titles, from essential core journals to specialized resources in such areas as nursing and bioscience, to help round out your knowledge base. With the Total Access Collection you get virtually all of LWW’s electronic journal content. The LWW Total Access Collection caters to those institutions with more intensive medical information needs - institutions supporting many clinicians, researchers, students and teachers, all of whom require 24/7 access to a larger collection of journals.
Access Note: Access to this collection is via the portal, Journals@OVID
MedicinemedRxiv: The Preprint Server for Health Sciences. medRxiv (pronounced “med-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
Medicine, Sciences 2007-present Weekly Full textNature Publishing Group (NPG) provides access to many of Macmillan Publisher’s online publications, including Palgrave Macmillan Journals and all NPG publications. In addition to Nature, which is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology, LAU Libraries subscribed to the following titles from NPG:
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
Medicine Current Weekly Full textNEJM is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas including allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, kidney disease, oncology, pulmonary disease, rheumatology, HIV, and infectious diseases.
Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Psychology, Health Sciences 1946 - present Daily Citation + Abstract + Full text linkMEDLINE on OvidSP offers you seamless and up-to-the-minute access to the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,500 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records.
N.B. Change the resource selected to OVID Medline
Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing 1946-present Daily Citation + Abstract + Full text linkPubMed comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Medicine, Sciences, Nursing 1993-present Full text + abstractThe only comprehensive web information source for world’s scientific, technical and medical research. ScienceDirect offers access to over 1,500 journals (full text), most from 1996 forward and some from 1993 forward. Users may navigate across 40 million records with links to 10,000 journal titles covering all fields of science. LAU Libraries have access to the Freedom Collection.
To access ScienceDirect OFF-CAMPUS:
I. You need first to register while ON-CAMPUS:
II- Once the registration is complete, you can now access ScienceDirect OFF-CAMPUS as follows:
Remote access is valid for 180 days. It will automatically be extended each time you sign in ON-CAMPUS.
For more details click here
Multidisciplinary, Medicine, Nursing 1823- present Daily Citation + Abstract + Full text linkScopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It offers access to 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, over 1200 Open Access journals, 520 conference proceedings, 315 book series, 36 million abstracts of which: 18 million records include references going back to 1996 (75% include references), 18 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823, and more. It also offers information on who cited who, when and where.
Medicine, Nursing Current Every 4 months Full textUpToDate is an electronic resource offering evidence-based, synthesized medical information. It is comprised of original topics written, reviewed, and continually updated by a faculty of physician experts.
UpToDate covers more than 7,400 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 76,000 pages of text, graphics, designed to anticipate and answer clinical questions, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 254,000 references, and a drug database.
UpToDate Anywhere is available for LAU users. In order to login to UpToDate off-campus you need to register while on campus. On the UpToDate home page, click the Register link in the upper right corner. Complete the registration form and Click Submit.
To log in to your UpToDate® online account:
1. Go to www.uptodate.com
2. On the UpToDate home page, click the Log In link in the upper right corner.
3. Enter your user name and password in the Log In box on the next page
To maintain your access to UpToDate you will need to confirm your affiliation with Lebanese American University every 90 days. To do this simply login to UpToDate from within the Lebanese American University network.
Pharmacy, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing Current Full textUpToDate® Lexidrug™ is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools that provides users with an extensive medical library. This guide is designed to help users understand and navigate all the features of the Lexidrug application. The initial home screen of the application provides users access to Lexidrug content via our global search functionality. In addition to searching our clinical databases, the blue tool bar across the top of the application allows the user to access all clinical decision support tools.
Multidisciplinary, Medicine, Nursing Current Daily Full textWiley-Blackwell is a multidisciplinary database that holds the content for most of Wiley-Blackwell’s journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies, i.e., Business and Society Review, Child Development, The Muslim World, International Affairs, and Journal of Sociolinguistics.