With Brenda as emcee, the Library hosted the official grand opening on October 27. President Gregory Eastwood, Vice President for Public and Governmental Affairs Ron Young, and Library Director Laurie Thompson all gave short welcoming speeches, followed by a reception in honor of former Alumni Affairs Director Ed Clark. Yuling Chen, an intern from Syracuse University, has joined the HIC staff to further develop the HIC Patient Education database. This database points University Hospital nurses and other UH personnel to important patient education resources held in various departments on campus. Links to Ovid , Health Reference Center , MDConsult , or ProQuest require searching by author, topic, or journal name to retrieve full text.
Some titles are available from multiple sources.
In most cases only four or five years are online. Searching the journal title retrieves the holdings of the print journal, and where appropriate, offers a link to the electronic version. The Library purchases the e-journal subscription separately. The publisher allows free access to the e-journal on the World Wide Web. The Library is actively seeking to expand its electronic journal collection.