Resource Sharing between New England School of Law Library and Tufts Health Sciences Library:

A valuable resource-sharing partnership has been forged between New England School of Law's library and the library associated with Tufts medical, dental and veterinary schools. Current students, faculty and staff of each institution have on-site access to each other's collections, which in the case of Tufts means an extensive medical journal collection and a reference collection of basic works, including such things as medical dictionaries, general textbooks, and narrowly subject-specific monographs.

The Tufts Health Sciences Library is located in the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications at 145 Harrison Street, approximately two blocks from NESL. Map to the Health Sciences Library

Before you go to Tufts Health Sciences Library:

1. Search the major periodical indexes for cites to Journal articles and Law Reviews:
• Search Current Law Index and Index to Legal Periodicals. Use LEXIS/NEXIS (Lawrev library; ILP or LGLIND files), WESTLAW (ILP, LRI, CILP databases), or LegalTrac and Index to Legal Periodicals on the web.
• Search PubMed (Medline), MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine Gateway. Use LEXIS (Medline library; numerous files), WESTLAW (Medline**), or the Internet, at Consumer Health Reference Center. NESL community will not have access to MEDLINE at Tufts; do preliminary searching at New England.


2. Search online, full-text sources, in WESTLAW (e.g. AMA-jnls) and LEXIS (News library; ASAPII); Highwire
   


3. Search library catalogs to verify holdings.
• Check New England's holdings on Portia. Login as "library." Search using keywords, to see if we have bibliographies or monographs which will hep you. If you attempt a subject search, notice the format of the library of congress subjects. Some examples:
  • medical laws and legislation -- United States
  • Bioethics -- United States
  • Human experimentation in medicine -- law and legislation-- United States
  • Public Health Administration -- United States
  • Informed consent (Medical law) -- United States
• Search the Tufts Health Sciences library catalog before you go(you can select health sciences library from the drop-down menu) , bring your NESL identification , and bring money to xerox the materials you need. A tufts copy card is available for faculty members. Please call Deirdre Yelverton, ext. 282. Access is limited to onsite use. Access to any of Tufts' circulating treatises may, as always, be obtained by filling out an interlibrary loan request at the NESL circulation desk.


4. Search the Internet
• These links are resources on the Internet that may help to answer medical, ethical, and legal questions which are forcing a reassessment of medical practices and the goals of legal regulation.