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The Dickerman Library

Submitted by ltripoli on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 17:07

The Herbert W. Dickerman Library is Wadsworth Center’s biomedical research library. The main library is located at the Empire State Plaza (ESP), with a branch at the David Axelrod Institute (DAI).

The Dickerman Library is available to all Wadsworth and Health Department staff, and to faculty and students from the Wadsworth Center Master of Science in Laboratory Sciences program. Members of the public may be admitted with permission of the Library Director. The Library offers reference services, interlibrary loan, database searching, and use of the collection of approximately 50,000 books and reports, as well as over 800 scientific and public health journals in print and over 2,500 electronic journals. Through the Library’s homepage, users have access to research databases, electronic journals, catalogs of the Dickerman Library and other libraries, and various other Internet resources.

The Dickerman Library’s homepage can be accessed by users with internal/full access at http://info.wadsworth.org/library/libhome/ or http://dickerman.wadsworth.org by users with external or limited access.

There are several databases that can be accessed via the Dickerman Library homepage, including:

  • Ovid Online - Medline, Current Contents, Evidence Based Medicine/Cochrane
    Thomson ISI
  • Web of Science -Science, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities
  • Pub Med - National Library of Medicine, 19 million citations and scientific
    publications
  • Medline - Molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data
  • IndexCat - Pre-Medline catalog of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office
    from the 17th to 20th century
  • BLAST Sequence Similarity Searching
  • Entrez - The Entrez Browser offers access to the PubMed database and to the NCBI protein and nucleotide sequence databases, the NCBI 3D structures database, and the NCBI genomes database
  • GenBank Sequence Database - the NIH genetic sequence database
  • PubChem - Chemical structure database
  • Toxicology sites from NLM - see our Internet Resources webpage, under Federal Government Resources Journal Ranking Tools
  • Eigenfactor - from the University of Washington using Thomson ISI data
  • Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - from Thomson ISI; available only on CD-Rom at the ESP Library; ask at the Reference desk

Department of Defense

Chemical Directory

Faculty of 1000

National Cancer Institute

  • PDQ (Physician Data Query) - NCI's comprehensive database of peer-reviewed information for both patients and physicians, a registry of trials, and directories of health professionals and organizations

National Agricultural Library

  • Agricola - Resources relating to all aspects of agriculture and allied fields

AAAS Specialty Databases

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, Georgetown University

  • ETHXWeb - citations and some abstracts to bioethics literature
  • GenETHX - citations and some abstracts to genetic ethics literature

NOVEL Databases (from the NYS Library)

  • Ebsco databases - including General Science Collection
  • Infotrac - Health Reference Center Academic (consumer health and medicine), Newspaper Indexes (state, national, and international, including the New York Times), Business and Company Resource Center (industry news and information)

Library Science

  • ERIC - Education Resources Information Center, supported by the U.S. Dept. of Education