Cancellation of WorldCat Local

After careful consideration, the Pumerantz Library has decided to discontinue the WorldCat Local search service that was located on our homepage. Although the single search option was well received, the results were confusing and unreliable. Currently, to search for articles go to the Electronic Resources page and select an individual database to search.  Pumerantz Library is working on a replacement to WorldCat Local.  The replacement is coming soon so stay tuned!

Resource Spotlight - Anatomy.TV

This week we focus on Anatomy.TV which provides 3D interactive anatomy of the human body. Our particular subscription covers

• Regional anatomy - head, neck, spine, etc.
• Sports & therapy functional anatomy
• Specialties areas for Dentistry & Podiatry

Anatomy.TV allows you to go through each layer of the body, from skin to bone, and examine each of those layers and rotate the animation to view it from different angles.

You are able to isolate muscles, bone, nerve and blood vessels to find more information about each isolated item. You can quiz yourself on the knowledge you gain from the anatomy studied, as well as view MRI images, movies or animation if they are available for that section.

Authorized Pumerantz Library users can use Anatomy.TV on campus and off campus by using their Proxy login.


You may contact the library's Reference and Outreach office for more details about Anatomy.TV at reference@westernu.edu or 909-469-5323.

PubMed or Medline?

As librarians we are asked the question pretty frequently.

In essence it really comes down to a few things

• Contains all articles from all of the 5400 journals in indexed by PubMed whether biomedical or not (approx. 1 million citations)
• Contains all non-indexed articles and OLDMEDLINE
• It is the free search interface for the various databases associated with the National Center for Biotechnology Institute
• Site specific tools, i.e. MyNCBI, etc.

• Is the major database component in PubMed (approx. 21 million citations) 
• Only contains fully indexed biomedical journal citations
• Is usually leased out to other database providers, i.e. OVID, EBSCO and isn't updated nearly as often as when it is used through PubMed

There is a great article about this from the National Library of Medicine located here http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html.

Search Electronic Databases webpage - Partial Outage

Good Morning WesternU Community,

We are experiencing a temporary outage with the Live Search feature of the Search Electronic Databases beta page.

The "Search for Databases by Name" is not functioning, but the "Search our Resources by Type" drop-down list is working as it should.

We thank you for your patience during this outage and encourage you to please use the manual list of Electronic Resources.

UPDATE: The "Search Electronic Databases" database is now operating again. Thank for your patience.