BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE
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Journal articles contain the most up-to-date research reported in the scientific literature. The most efficient way to access this information is through database searching. MEDLINE on PubMed is an excellent starting point for searching the HIV/AIDS journal literature. PubMed contains access to over 3,900 biomedical journals. Some journals containing the most recent research findings are included in PubMed. Examples are: AIDS, AIDS Clinical Review, AIDS Care, Annals of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, International Journal of STD & AIDS, the New England Journal of Medicine and more. Retrieving journal articles may be done at the Boston University Alumni Medical Library. The Library's catalog should be consulted to determine if the Library owns the journal you would like to read. The catalog is available from computers in the library or from off-site at http://library.bu.edu. You may also order journal articles directly from the Interlibrary Loan Department (see Obtaining Articles section below). PUBMED Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to the MEDLINE database. MEDLINE is the leading source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 11 million records from more than 3,900 journals are indexed. MEDLINE dates from 1966 to the present. Searches in PubMed may be restricted to the AIDS subset. The AIDS subset contains approximately 160,000 references to journal articles published since 1980. Over 50 percent of these references have abstracts. In addition to journal articles, the subset includes citations to HIV/AIDS-related newsletters. New citations are continually added.  ADDITIONAL DATABASES FOR FINDING HIV/AIDS INFORMATION AIDSDRUGS Search for Drug Names, Trial ID Number, and Therapeutic Classes. AIDSLINE includes published literature on HIV/AIDS, including newsletters and conference abstracts. This file has been merged into MEDLINE. NLM Gateway enables you to retrieve abstracts from the Fifth through the Thirteenth International Conferences on AIDS, the Symposium on Non-Human Primate Models for AIDS, the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, and more. OBTAINING ARTICLES THROUGH THE LOANSOME DOC SERVICE Loansome Doc was developed by the National Library of Medicine and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) as a document ordering service. Loansome Doc allows PubMed users to order articles while searching.The Alumni Medical Library offers Loansome Doc service to individuals with the Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project. Service is provided Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. All participants of the Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project may receive up to five (5) articles or book chapters during the project period at no cost. Individuals requesting more than 5 articles or book chapters will be charged for each transaction. The fee for Loansome Doc service is $3 per article. Articles will be supplied to you over the Internet, by fax, or the U.S. mail. A rush fax service is available for an additional $12 per article. In order to use the Loansome Doc service, Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project participants must first set-up an account with the Alumni Medical Library. Five articles will be provided to each particiapnt at no cost. For more information on Loansome Doc or to set-up an account, contact Joe Harzbecker
at 617-638-4205 or harzbeck@bu.edu. Or, link to any of these publications for more information:
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