Access your Department of Pediatrics e-mail via a web browser.

Access ClinDesk via a web browser.

Visit the Bernard Becker Library's home page for links to most resources you will need: EUCLID, E-Catalog, full-text journals, and other useful web sites.

E-Catalog is the Library's new on-line catalog to collections in print and electronic formats including over 300 electronic journals, online books, and consumer health information.

OVID/EUCLID is the Library's Biomedical Information System providing Washington University, Barnes-Jewish, and Missouri Baptist personnel with access to databases (MEDLINE, Nursing, CancerLit, AIDSLine, and more) and over 80 full-text clinical on-line journals. Passwords are required. Classes are held every Tuesday at 2:00, Wednesday at 3:00 or by appointment. EUCLID is the local designation for the more generally known OVID database system.

Visit the EUCLID/OVID documentation site for on-line instructions for downloading, creating current awareness searches, for remote access, and more.

The Web of Science not only provides weekly updates to current biomedical literature, but indexes and links the cited references for each article. Searchers can identify key and related articles on topics by navigating forward, backward, and through scientific literature.

The Becker Library is now offering on-line access to the full-text publications of several scientific and medical publishers including Elsevier Science (ScienceDirect) and the Springer Publishing Group (Link). Visit the "services" site on the Library's new E-Catalog system for direct links.

Blackwell Publishing's Electronic Journal Navigator (EJN) provides on-line table of contents and abstracts from 571 scientific journals and the full-text of 14 biomedical journals for Washington University users. These titles represent a range of biomedical publishers including Thomson Science, Oxford University Press, Taylor and Francis, Rockefeller University Press, and Academic Press.

STAT!Ref is a unique resource as this system offers on-line full-text access to 28 basic medical textbooks including Current Diagnosis and Treatment titles, the Merck Manual, various drug information tools and the Review of Medical Physiology. This system is in development and the Library would appreciate your feedback regarding its usefulness. Send your suggestions and comments to: mercerl@msnotes.wustl.edu

The three-volume loose-leaf reference, Scientific American Medicine is now also available on the WWW. Authored by over 140 leading scholar-physicians covering 15 subspecialties of internal medicine, Scientific American Medicine is a valuable tool for obtaining current clinically-oriented information.

Health Reference Center provides bibliographic references, abstracts and full text for excerpts and articles from a variety of health publications. Material includes a medical dictionary; medical directories and reference books; consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by leading health organizations.

Library Link is an electronic mail notification service that sends a message to you when new electronic resources and services become available at the Becker Library. Receive announcements about all new electronic resources through the convenience of electronic mail. To subscribe:

1. Send an email message to: listserv@medicine.wustl.edu
2. Enter the following information into the body of the message:
   subscribe librarylink YourFirstName YourLastName
   You do not need to enter anything in the subject line.

Library staff are perhaps your greatest resource! Library staff are happy to help construct searches, locate information, answer questions, help set up current awareness searches, as well as a variety of other information services. The number for the reference desk is: 362-7085 and is open Monday through Saturday. The email address is reference@medicine.wustI.edu.

The Medical School's web site includes a variety of information for all students at the medical school. Curricular, calendar, and grade information is included here as is information about specific student organizations, activities, and publications.

ILLiad is the Library's new electronic system for requesting documents or books to be copied or borrowed for you. Requests can now be made from your desktop without having to come to the Library. Each request costs $4.00. This fall, the Library will add a feature to ILLiad which will enable us to scan your request and send it directly to your PC on your desk via the Internet. Watch for announcements.

The Beilstein Crossfire Organic Chemistry Database covers preparation and properties of organic compounds. Features include substance information, reactions, and bibliographic citations hyperlinked to the substances and reactions. Crossfire is a client/server software program that you install directly onto your computer. Beilstein software may be downloaded from the site listed above at the University of Wisconsin. Once downloaded, contact the Information Services staff to obtain the Washington University logon and password to complete the connection.

SciFinder Scholar is a desktop application enabling researchers to access the CA Plus database over the Internet. Articles may be searched and retrieved by topic with natural language questions; by specific author(s); by chemical substances by chemical name, structure, formulas, or CAS Registry Numbers; by reactions, starting from structures of interest; and by patent numbers. Search results may be refined by author name, document type, or publication year. SciFinder provides access directly to the CA Plus file that is updated on a daily basis as well as the Registry file. Like Beilstein's CrossFire, SciFinder Scholar client software must be downloaded to your desktop. Go to the site listed here for step-by-step directions.