Publications and Scholarship

The Medical Heritage Center provides an avenue and environment for scholars to publish works on topics of historical medical significance. The Center helps secure funding for publications, conducts hands-on research, provides opportunities for guest articles to appear in Center publications, and serves as a launching pad for newly published works.

Borrow and Request Items

Materials may be renewed or held by logging in to My Library Account. Loan periods vary based on the type of materials:

Books
Faculty, staff, and graduate students: 17 week check-out period
Undergraduate students: 6 week check-out period

Reserves
Two-hour checkout period (includes reserve books, models, and bones)

Journals

The Second Blessing: Columbus Medicine and Health The Early Years

The Second Blessing Columbus Medicine and Health The Early YearsThe Second Blessing: Columbus Medicine and Health The Early Years is a book written by Medical Heritage Center scholars Charles F. Wooley and Barbara A. Van Brimmer.

This digital exhibit of the book showcases each chapter. Copies of the book are available for purchase.

Acknowledgement: This exhibit was made possible by the generous support of Julia Metzger in honor of her father, Paul Metzger, MD.

Covidence

Covidence is a systematic reviews production tool for title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. Covidence was designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process in order to make conducting reviews more efficient. It is the primary screening and data extraction tool for Cochrane authors.

Embase

With over 31 million indexed records and more than 8,500 indexed peer-reviewed journals, Embase is a highly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. All articles are indexed in depth using the Elsevier Life Science thesaurus Emtree®.
 

ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey contains content from several current Elsevier databases including MD Consult, First Consult, Procedures Consult, Clinics of North America and new content including nearly 900 eBooks*. 

The collection of journals available in ClinicalKey is growing every month, and currently includes more than 600,000 articles from more than 500 journals.

ClinicalKey also has more than 20 million MEDLINE abstracts, which are retrieved each day from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

net.TUTOR

Connect to net.TUTOR

Offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher.  Developed by Nancy O'Hanlon (User Education, OSU Libraries).