The Tufts
Health Sciences Library is located in the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications at 145 Harrison Street, approximately
two blocks from New England Law | Boston.
- 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. New England Law community will not have access
to MEDLINE at Tufts; do preliminary searching at New England.
- Search online, full-text sources, in WESTLAW (e.g. AMA-jnls)
and LEXIS (News library; ASAPII); Highwire
- 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 New England Law
identification , and bring money to xerox the materials you
need. A tufts copy card is available for faculty members. Please
call Meagan Peterson, 617-422-7282. 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
circulation desk.
- 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.
|
