Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Archive

The library has acquired the electronic backfile to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.

The double helix, the genetic code, jumping genes, the PCR technique, the human genome project, and RNA interference ... were announced, debated and distilled at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia.

From the very beginning the meetings set high standards. Herbert Gasser won a Nobel Prize in 1944, and other eminent participants included Kenneth Cole (nerve conduction), Donald Van Slyke (protein chemist) and Leonor Michaelis (Michaelis-Menten equation) . The 1933 meeting lasted one month. There were 29 scientists working in labs and giving talks.

The sales of the Symposia volumes were an important source of income for the Biological Laboratory, and, some 30 years later, saved what had become the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from bankruptcy.

The link to the archives can be found in the library's catalog or the online journal list.

Selected Reserve Books Online

A number of textbooks in the Library's Reserve collection are also available electronically. Some of these online books are electronic versions of the same edition that is available on reserve. Others are either more recent editions or earlier ones than their print counterparts.

The books are available from the E-books link on the library's home page; they are identified by "Reserve" in the Location column. Here is a quick list of the titles in the Reserve collection that are also available online:

Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Basic Histology: Text & Atlas
Basic Neurochemistry
Biochemistry
Cell - A Molecular Approach
Clinical Neuroanatomy
DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
Developmental Biology
DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Family Medicine: Principles & Practice
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult
Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Human Molecular Genetics 2
Hurst's The Heart
Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Medical Epidemiology
Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy
Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Molecular Cell Biology
Review of General Psychiatry
Review of Medical Physiology
Rudolph's Pediatrics
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
Williams Hematology
Williams Obstetrics (AccessMedicine)

BMJ Point of Care

The Library now has a trial subscription to BMJ Point of Care, a new clinical resource brought to you jointly by the BMJ Group and Epocrates.

BMJ Point of Care is designed specifically to deliver diagnosis and treatment guidance in the clinical setting. It provides:

* Comprehensive disease monographs that include competing diagnoses, treatment approaches, tests to order, and guidelines
* Treatment details organized by patient group
* Embedded links to BMJ Clinical Evidence
* Information on over 3,300 drugs and 400 alternative medicines, with a comprehensive drug interaction checking tool
* Up-to-date, detailed formulary information for top national and regional healthcare insurance plans
* Fully referenced with links to Pubmed abstracts
* A useful pill identifier tool plus hundreds of helpful medical tables and calculators.

The trial will end at the end of 2008. Try it and send an email to askref@aecom.yu.edu to tell us what you think.