Library Services and Resources for Staff
Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Administration, Clinical Staff and Affliates.
Ask A Librarian
This is a free service for Seton Medical Center/Seton Coastside staff. Questions are answered and requests for information (articles, books and multimedia) are filled for patrons, Monday-Friday during normal business hours. Please click here to go to the form. Librarian: 650-991-6315.
Collection Resources
Call the library to obtain information about our lending and reference policies and procedures.
There is a wide array of print and online medical journals, books, reference materials, and multimedia available in the Library and through dual-mode access. Materials not available in this Library can be borrowed through interlibrary loan from other local libraries or through regional and national cooperative networks. A reasonable amount of library material can be photocopied in the Library free of charge.
Current Awareness Service
Is it difficult to find the time to keep up on the current literature? Would you like to browse the literature outside your specialty? A current table-of-contents of our print journal subscriptions is available through the Health Sciences Library. Call the Library for more information at: 650-991-6700.
HouseCalls: Internet Tutoring Service
An award-winning, free personal 1:1 or small group instruction service for authorized staff. This service is designed to teach patrons how to use online and onsite library resources. Presentations for individual departments are available upon request. Category 1 CME credit is available. Call the Library for an appointment at: 650-991-6315.
Literature Searches and Reference Services
The Library team will honor simple or complex research/literature review requests on first come, first serve basis. We also provide traditional reference services and can help you locate answers to factual questions and much more! Research requests, clinical and non-clinical questions are answered for authorized staff. Call us at 650-991-6700.
Multimedia Educational Resources
JAMA Multimedia Index Page includes video supplements, JAMA interactive, audio commentaries, and video reports CME, and "Author in the Room" teleconferences.
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) videos in clinical medicine. This series of teaching videos is intended to help students, trainees, and younger physicians to learn procedural techniques from experienced colleagues. The journal's ultimate goal is to provide effective clinical instruction and improved patient care.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. Public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public are welcome to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.
PubMed® Online Training is a web-guide of "quick tours" that shows you how to search PubMed. The question and answer approach addresses common questions about searching PubMed.
Safety Leaders TMIT Briefing Center provides rapid access to very important information shared by leaders in the quality and patient safety movement. Streaming video clips of interviews and presentations are provided for easy viewing and access. The briefings will be updated on a periodic basis and the full library will grow over time.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Patient Safety News is a televised series for health care personnel, carried on satellite broadcast networks aimed at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. It features information on new drugs, biologics and medical devices, on FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and on ways to protect patients when using medical products.