The library has subscribed to Harrison’s online for a year, which covers the complete contents of “Harrison’s principles and practice of medicine” 18th ed. It allows printing and mobile downloading in a format optimised for handheld devices such as smartphones. Also incorporated are more than 90 videos, 1000 self assessment questions and answers, plus expert […]

Congratulations to Dr Peter Baxter, Consultant Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for winning a BMA book award: medicine category. He is an editor of “Hunter’s diseases of occupations” 10th edition. This is held in the Library as a reference book at WA 400.62

Work continues with the deduplication of journal titles which are found in other Cambridge University libraries. One set will continue to be housed in one of the University libraries. The list of the journals involved is: Title Start vol End vol Retained copy MIMS magazine 1974 to 1987 UL Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of […]

Work continues as we deduplicate journal titles held in other Cambridge University libraries. A list of these can be seen here. Please email us if you have any views on this action. email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

The Library will be closingTuesday 19th to Friday 22nd July, 2011 at 19:45 This is due to staff sickness Many apologies for the inconvenience.

Deduplication We continue to deduplicate print journals and move towards electronic journal access. One copy of the print will continue to be held in one of the University libraries, but not in the Medical Library. A list of these titles can be seen here. http://tinyurl.com/medicallibrarydeduplication Cancellations Due to continued financial pressures we propose to cancel […]

More e-journal access for Local NHS Staff E-journal access for Cambridge University Health Partners* Pilot scheme launched! The scheme allows the University of Cambridge to extend to its partner NHS organisations in CUHP access to the content it already obtains on subscription from the participating publishers. A pilot scheme has been launched, ending December 2011, […]

20th – 24 December Due to adverse weather conditions the library will be shutting at 8pm on 22nd and 23rd December. Further snowfall may require earlier closure. Please phone to check that the library is open before coming in. Phone:- 01223 336750It will close at 12:30 on 24th December

As part of the Medical Library’s continued migration to e-journals more print journals, which are duplicated within Cambridge University Libraries, have been identified for possible disposal to the UK Research Reserve, (see http://www.ukrr.ac.uk/.) This will allow the Medical Library to use the space for more pressing needs. Please see the attached list, following this link […]