Category: New Resource

A Charitable Offer from Lane Medical Library

Lane Medical Library wants to offer you an opportunity to be charitable and to forgive your fines and late fees at the same time. From now until January 15, 2020, you can pay off fines and fees while providing food for people in need in our community. Lane will reduce your fines in return for… Read more A Charitable Offer from Lane Medical Library

Library Holiday Hours

Happy Holidays! During Stanford University’s winter intersession from Dec 23, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020, Lane’s services will be limited. Please see this page for details of Lane holiday hours and services. Services Available on a limited basis Renew a book onlineVisit the library (limited hours)DocXpress (limited services) Services Unavailable Literature Search ServiceLending to Non-Stanford… Read more Library Holiday Hours

New PubMed is here!

When you visit PubMed you will see a blue banner inviting you to try the new PubMed. The biggest change is that your search results will be sorted by a “best match” ranking by default not by the “most recent” ranking. The best match sort uses an algorithm to quickly identify the most relevant results.… Read more New PubMed is here!

Connie and Mary Curate our Exam Preparation Resources to Benefit our Students

To assist the exam preparation of medical, physician assistant, and graduate students, Connie and Mary at Lane Library bring you free access to an extensive collection of handy resources: USMLE: UWorld USMLE QBankKaplan USMLE QBankUSMLE First AidExam Master Online PANCE: Rosh Review PANCE QBankPA Exam PrepDavis’s PA Exam ReviewExam Master OnlineComprehensive Review for PAPANCE Prep… Read more Connie and Mary Curate our Exam Preparation Resources to Benefit our Students

It’s Open Access Week! Learn more about Lane’s Agreements with OA Publishers

Happy Open Access Week! Lane Library and Stanford University provide a variety of processing fee discounts to Stanford authors who publish in several open access platforms. Visit Library Open Access Author Processing Charge Agreements for more details. Highlights of the Open Access programs Lane Library participated: BioMed Central (BMC): A 15% discount on author processing fees is… Read more It’s Open Access Week! Learn more about Lane’s Agreements with OA Publishers

John Manages the Research and Instruction Team

As the manager, John Borghi coordinates Lane’s Research and Instruction (R&I) team. The R&I team is central to the Lane’s education and outreach activities and provides wide range of research-related services to the Stanford Medicine Community. As part of Lane’s liaison program, which delegates individual librarians to specific departments within Stanford Medicine, R&I team members… Read more John Manages the Research and Instruction Team

Drew Invites You to Visit the Medical History Center

The Medical History Center is a treasure trove of historical photographs, rare books, personal papers, and other resources about the history of Stanford Medicine, and also about the history of medicine in general. You can receive one-on-one instruction in doing historical research, as well as guidance on copyright and other considerations when using historical materials… Read more Drew Invites You to Visit the Medical History Center

Leah Encourages you to Use the Document Delivery Service

Resource Management Librarian, Leah H. Anderson, encourages you to try the document delivery (DocXpress) service. It is Lane’s web-based interlibrary loan and document delivery service, which is free to eligible Stanford affiliates (excludes duplicate requests). Leah notes, “Nothing holds you back from getting the information you want! Our Document Delivery service can get PDF copies of virtually… Read more Leah Encourages you to Use the Document Delivery Service

User Poll during National Medical Librarians Month

Stop by Lane Library October 7-13 to participate in our user poll. We want to hear more about how Lane supports you as we celebrate National Medical Librarians Month. We will be asking two simple questions at the library entrance: Your affiliation (e.g. SHC resident)Your purpose of visit (e.g. Tech Bar) Data will be used for… Read more User Poll during National Medical Librarians Month

PubMed is Getting a New Look

In early 2020 the default PubMed search page will be updated to a new design. The new design will be mobile-responsive so you can easily search using a phone or tablet. Here are a few of the changes: 1. Search results will be sorted by best match by default, NOT by most recent! You have likely seen best match results in… Read more PubMed is Getting a New Look