Lister Hill Letter
Newsletter of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at UAB

May/June 1999

LHL Offers New Electronic Resource: STAT!Ref

A new addition on the Library's home page is the link to STAT!Ref.  The Medical Reference Complete Library included in this new resource provides access to the latest editions of 31 texts covering these topics: Cardiology, Critical Care, Drug Reference, Emergency, General and Internal Medicine, General Reference, Surgical, Gastroenterology, Geriatric, Immunology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Physiology, Psychiatry, Toxicology, and Urology.  As a plus, Mosby's GenRx, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, Handbook of Adverse Drug Interactions, and USP Volumes I and II are kept current with integrated supplemental updates.

Either natural language or Boolean searching can be done on selected texts, or on all texts simultaneously.  All of the text words, including image captions and tables, are searchable.  The powerful search engine uses a thesaurus (finds both cardiac and heart when the word heart is entered); stemming (finds variations of the word); and presents a word list of 20 possibilities when a search has requested a word that does not appear in the text.  An excellent User Help is available for contextual help and can also be printed.

Netscape or Internet Explorer can be used to access STAT!Ref from the UAB domain (any campus computer or those users with the campus ISP.)  If you wish to use STAT!Ref outside of the UAB domain you MUST use Internet Explorer to reach the library's homepage and then select the WinFRAME option to reach STAT!Ref.  When prompted for ID and password enter your OVID ID and password.  Once on the STAT!Ref homepage just click on the STAT!Ref Med. Reference line on the opening screen to begin searching.  If you haven't used this comprehensive reference source yet -- now is time to do it!