The library has  different opening hours during the Easter holidays. We are open each day from 9.00am until 6.00pm (no evening services). The library will be closed on Easter Monday, 13 April.

On the blog of David Rothman I found  a nice link to the Visible Human Server where you can discover the human body slice by slice (axial, sagital, coronal). It’s a nice tool to study anatomy

The Visible Human Server

Update 23 March: the library’s e-mail account is working again

There will be a transfer of the library’s e-mail account on Friday 20 March to a new mail server. During that day it will not be possible to contact us via the regular address mgas(AT)bib.kuleuven.be.
You may contact us by telephone (016/346105) or (for urgent requests) via the e-mail addresses of the individual staff members.

Ordering articles via our document delivery system (for researchers and staff) will also not be accessible on that particular day. Apologies for the inconvenience.

De campus library has temporary access to Best Practice, a new decision supporting tool for physicians. This trial from the BMJ Group is accessible until 11 March via the K.U.Leuven-network..

“Best Practice is a decision support tool that combines the latest research evidence with guidelines and expert opinion presented in a step-by-step approach, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. With Clinical Evidence content incorporated, Best Practice serves as an invaluable learning and support tool for doctors, medical students, researchers and healthcare practioners.”

The user interface is quite user-friendly – you may browse or search in the content – and you can have a look at the user guide (pdf). 

Leave your comments below or e-mail your suggestions to mgas@bib.kuleuven.be. You also might like to join our poll!

February 2 is traditionally the University’s Patron’s Day. On that day, K.U.Leuven confers honorary doctorates on persons of exceptional scientific, social or cultural merit. K.U.Leuven and UCL have decided to celebrate their Patron’s Feast together in 2009 and to jointly confer the distinctions. Four eminent persons will receive the title of doctor honoris causa from K.U.Leuven and UCL on 2 February 2009: Iranian illustrator Marjane Satrapi, Palestinian philosopher Prof Dr Sari Nusseibeh, Sudanese jurist Prof Dr Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im and Italian Jesuit Paolo Dall’Oglio. Join the ceremonies or watch it online on the same day.

The Library is traditionally closed on 2 February.

Candlemas is also known as Pancake Day in Belgium.

Pancake Day (Photo by Ben Hanbury)

Next Friday, January 23, the library will exceptionally close the doors at 4.30 pm instead of 6 pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Biomedical library wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We take a well deserved break from December 25th until January 5th.

The library will close on Wednesday the 24th of December at 1 pm.

The K.U.Leuven University Library has opened access to five new trials for E-books. While surfing on the KULeuvenNet you will have access to five major E-books platforms during the next coming weeks (until December, 19th) .

• PsycBooks
  PsycBOOKS contains full text in Portable Document Format (PDF) of scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA).  In 2006, the database offering includes about 900 titles, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002. The books are offered via OvidSP.
• NetLibrary
  This platform offers access to more than 170,000 E-books. For Medicine you will find a nice selection of more than 500 Doody’s Core Titles , a significant collection of reference books.
• MyiLibrary via Missing Link
  On this platform of E-books you will not need no password: just click on the link “miliBib-Portal starten” on the frontpage. In the category Medicine you can choose books out of 2,500 titles.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library 
  To access this website with more than 1,500 electronic reference books you will need to login with the following passwords. A collection of almost 200 medical books and encyclopaedia is also offered. After login, click on Access this database.
• Dawsonera
  On this platform Dawson offers a selection of 50 titles (out of a collection of 75,000 e-books). You need to login with one of the following passwords.

We gladly receive any feedback on these trials. After the trial period the University Library will evaluate the different platforms based on the quality of the content, the price of the product, the usability of the platform, usage statistics (in the trial period) and, of course, your feedback. Please let us know what you think of the different E-books providers by leaving a comment in this weblog or by sending an e-mail to mgas@bib.kuleuven.be.
Thanks a lot.

The Biomedical Library and the University will be closed on Monday, November 10th and Tuesday, November 11th on the occasion of Armistice Day.

Foto by Brenda Anderson