HSLS Update

New Content and Technology from ebrary Make Research Easy and Efficient

The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) and the University Library System (ULS) share a subscription to ebrary's Academic Complete database, which provides more than 24,000 full-text electronic books, reports and other authoritative materials from over 200 leading academic, science/technical/medical and professional publishers. This unique database is delivered via ebrary Dynamic Content Platform, featuring both the ebrary Reader for optimized online viewing, and InfoTools, for instantly linking to other digital resources within the library or on the Web, simply by selecting any word in any document.

Academic Complete covers all academic subject areas including business & economics, career & general education, computers, engineering & applied sciences, humanities, science, medicine & allied health, and social sciences. All ebrary titles will be available through PITTCat for the Health Sciences. Titles of interest to the health sciences will be identified as HSLS titles, and will contain medical subject headings (MeSH).

Ebrary’s advanced navigation and search features include the ability to:

• Search within a document, across multiple collections of full text content, or resources available on Web;
• Check a definition, explain or translate a term, access bibliographic information, or locate a place without leaving the document;
• Display the source document with associated meta-data from each individual title.

In addition, both the copy/paste and print functions automatically produce a citation, as well as adding the URL to the exact page in the document.

Additional features are available to ebrary users who wish to create their own Bookshelf, providing a dynamic archive of research that allows users to annotate a text, and to save and manage bookmarks and highlights within the document. This personal research trail can be stored online or printed.

Since there is no limit to the number of simultaneous users, there are no problems for ebrary readers regarding availability, such as when a print book is charged out or can’t be found on the shelf.

You can learn more about this product by downloading the ebrary user guide at www.ebrary.com/corp/pdf/ebrary_Patron_User_Guide.pdf

--Gosia Fort