AccessMedicine  
Current; McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com provides online access to medical textbooks, such as Harrison's Online; Hurst's The Heart; Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics; Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery; the Lange Educational Library, and the Lange Self-Assessment Tool for National Boards Review. The textbooks are updated daily and may be searched by disease, test or drug for results in print, audio or video formats. AccessMedicine can be accessed using a PDA, iPod and MP3.

ACP Medicine Online  
A Publication of the American College of Physicians.

Clinical Pharmacology  
Current; Clinical Pharmacology is the primary drug information and medication management resource of the majority of the country’s largest retail pharmacy chains and consultant pharmacy corporations, many U.S. pharmacy and medical schools, over 700 hospitals, well-known health information websites, and by hundreds-of-thousands of healthcare professionals and consumers worldwide. Written by pharmacists who have been formally trained in drug information, Clinical Pharmacology provides up-to-date, peer-reviewed, clinically-relevant information on all U.S. prescription drugs, as well as off-label uses and dosage, herbal supplements, nutritional and over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. This resource includes monographs, overviews of dozens of therapeutic drug classes, and advanced searching capabilities. Clinical Pharmacology also includes drug interactions reports, IV compatibility reports, product identification, an enhanced product comparison utility, and patient education such as OBRA-compliant Drug Information Handouts, written in English or Spanish and specific to each dosage form for educating patients on medication safety.

CREDO Reference  
Current; CREDO Reference is the world's largest online reference service, offering access to 169 electronic reference books on most subjects, including dictionaries, biographical sources, quotations, medicine, literature, music, technology, and many other interdiscipinary sources. Click here for a list of the publications included.

ebrary  
ebrary offers simultaneous multi-user access for over 60,000 titles by over 200 leading academic and professional publishers. Concentrations include Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Humanities, Life and Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. You will need to do an initial download of the ebrary reader---look on the home page for instructions. In addition, you may create a personal account. Copyright guidelines apply; printing more than 10%-15% of any book, online or print, is a copyright violation. ebrary allows you to print up to 40 pages from a book.

eMedicine
part of an ongoing project by Medicine, Inc. to produce freely accessible, online textbooks written by physicians for the use of other physicians and the public. [This resource is publicly available.]

Endotext.org
This site covers the broad area of clinical endocrinology, emphasizing clinical endocrine practice, including the most current information on the manifestations of endocrine disease, diagnosis and treatment. Editors include Leslie J. De Groot, MD, Brown Medical School, Professor of Medicine. [This resource is publicly available.]

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine  
Current; online version of the noted medical text.

Knovel Library  
Current; Knovel's "flagship" books are the Plastics Design Library Series, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, ChemEssentials, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, and a host of titles in mechanics & mechanical engineering featuring Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers along with the ASME Boiler and Pressure vessel codes. Knovel's toxicology offerings are quite comprehensive with 21 books. Popular books being the Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, and, Patty's Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene. Knovel has recently partnered with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to make available the many important books in the Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines Series. Lastly, Knovel has many of the important DoD Military Handbooks, including a fully interactive version of MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures.

MD Consult  
Current; access to the full text of medical textbooks, medical journals, clinical guidelines, drug information, CME and more.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - 17th.ed., 1999
(18th edition will be available in April 2006) [This resource is publicly available.]

Merck Manual of Geriatrics - 3rd.ed.,2005
[This resource is publicly available.]

National Academies Press
Over 3,000 scientific books online dealing with all subjects, produced by different branches of the National Academies of Science. [This resource is publicly available.] [This resource is publicly available.]

Pan American Health Organization Electronic Collection  
Covers public health issues. Listed books preceded by an "s" are available to Brown users. These books also can be accessed by title or subject searching on JOSIAH.

PsychiatryOnline  
Current; PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®,the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world, and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Resources include DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. Also included are journals, textbooks, self-assessment tools for study, board certification, and clinical & research news.

Red Book Online  
2008 edition; Red Book® Online provides access to essential pediatric infectious disease and immunization information from the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, including the complete text of the Red Book®, the complete visual library of over 2,000 images, vaccine status information, infectious disease news, and important updates.

Reference Universe  
Current, Reference Universe indexes authoritative reference works in the Brown Library, through deep exploration of specialized, subject encyclopedias. This database contains links to over 6000 works, and includes:

Complete back-of-the-book indexes
Article titles
Articles and indexes in ebooks
Links to online reviews
Links to ebooks

These are all linked to Josiah, the Brown Library Catalog. Use Reference Universe to identify the authoritative article to begin research, whether it's on our Library shelves or in online resources.