The Information Behind Healing is @Your Library
An innovative health information service supporting patient care, education and research

For over forty years, our award-winning professional Library has been committed to meeting the medical and health information needs of all Seton Medical Center/Seton Coastside physicians, health care professionals, patients, their families, and the general public at large.

Clinical Decision Making Resources

BMJ Evidence Updates - a searchable database of the best evidence from the medical literature. Free registration! 

Drug Information Portal - Quick access to information for over 12,000 selected drugs.

eMedicine - Peer-reviewed, up-to-date, and searchable medical journals/online textbooks covering a variety of specialities.

Influenza, H1N1, H5N1: Evidence-Based Information Portal 

MDConsult  - Journal articles, Clinics of North America, Books, Patient Education, Drugs, and more!

Medicity - Patient face sheet, laboratory results, transcription and more. For Access: contact Marcia Shaikin in the Medical Staff Office at 650-991-6408.

National Guideline Clearinghouse - A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Mobile - Palm Powered and Pocket PC tools: PubMed, AIDSinfo, NCBI bookshelf, REMM, WISER

National Organization for Rare Disorder's (NORD) Database - In Hospital Access Only - 1,100 reports covering rare disorders.

Natural Standard® Database - In Hospital Access Only - Evidence-based alternative and complementary therapies information.

OvidSP - In Hospital Access Only - Medline, Archived Nursing Journals in Full Text, EBM Reviews (Cochrane Library), ACP Journal Club. Searches take you directly to Full Text articles in MDConsult and PubMed Central.

OvidSP - Access from Home or Office with username/password. Call the Library to obtain remote access, 650-991-6700.

PubMed - Registration to access search filters is required. Call the Library to set up your account, 650-991-6700.

R2 Library by Rittenhouse - Full text electronic books covering Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health.

  - the Internet's leading resource for EBM Practice.

UpToDate and LexiComp - Intranet Access Only.

Electronic Journals - Call 650-991-6700 to obtain remote access userids/passwords

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Annals of Internal Medicine

Archives of Internal Medicine

Critical Care Nurse

Directory of Open Access Journals 

Hirewire Press 

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology *

Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-British

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry *

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Natural Medicine Journal

New England Journal of Medicine

PubMed Central

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

Sleep

*Remote access not available.

Please Note:
These resources are exclusively offered to Seton Medical Center/Seton Coastside Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Administration, Clinical Staff and Affiliates. To obtain remote access to our proprietary databases and resources from your home and/or office, call the Library to obtain userids and passwords at 650-991-6700.