Resource Sharing between New England Law Library and Tufts 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. New England Law 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
   • Journal of the American Medical Association - You can search JAMA for abstracts from any computer; for full text, see a Reference Librarian. Pre 1995, you may need to go to Tufts Health Sciences Library.
   
   



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 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.



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.