Library Resources Overview
The Health Sciences Library provides resources and services to staff, students and faculties of California Pacific Medical Center and the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.
Books
- Online Full Text Books: We have about 100 full text books online, accessible anytime, anywhere. No id/pw needed within our networks.
- Books: see our Book Catalog. If we don't have what you want, the library may be able to obtain it via interlibrary loan or you may request that it be added to the collection.
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Journals
- Online Full Text Journals The library has made available thousands of online full text journals. No id/pw needed within our networks.
Use: Our Journals database to search for, and access these journal titles. OR
Use: PubMed and click on the Full Text icon to obtain the printable online full text articles purchased/made available to you from our various vendors - OVID, MDConsult and EBSCO. - Journals in the Library
Use: Our Journals database to see our print holdings. Visit/contact the library for our print journals.
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Audio/Video
- New- NEJM teaching procedural videos: Videos in Clinical Medicine
- Audio-Digest series in Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Ophthalmology, and ACCEL series.
- See our Book Catalog for the many dental procedual videotapes and DVDs.
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Topic Search
- Search the biomedical & dental literature with Medline via PubMed or OVID, Clin-eGuide one click access to evidence-based summaries and full text books and journal articles from Ovid, and UpToDate's collection of over 900 topic reviews. PubMed will link you to fulltext articles provided by Ovid, MdConsult, Ebsco and other vendors.
- Search the nursing literature with PubMed and CINAHL with (partial) full text from Ebsco
- Search the health management literature with PubMed and EBSCO Health Business Elite
- Search for drug information via LexiComp (CPMC network access only)
- Search for cancer information summaries with NCI's Cancer Database
Select links & references:
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Patient/Consumer Materials
- Use: HealthWise, MedLinePlus, MdConsult, UpToDate, and California Pacific Medical Center Patient Education materials
- Health & Wellness links
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Help
Our print and electronic resources are available to the staff, faculty and students of California Pacific Medical Center and the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. These resources are available for your use directly and our Reference Staff is happy to perform research for you via mediated
research requests. Don’t hesitate to contact us by email or phone 600-3240 or in person for any support we can give you!
See also:
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick Guides:
- PubMed Basic Reference Guide

- PubMed My NCBI
169.12 Kb (last updated on October 06, 2008) - Clin-eGuide Quick Reference Card

- MDConsult Quick Reference Guide

- Lexi-Comp Quick Guide (pdf file on insidecpmc.org)
- Use Help on the products' websites for detail guides and tutorials
Online Tutorials
- PubMed
- Ovid Help - click on "Help" while in Ovid for interactive tutorials.
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