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The Medical College Library closed for the Christmas holidays

The Medical College Library will be closed during the Christmas holidays December 27th – 30th, 2016. Students are welcome to use the Main library at the rectorate building of the university, the library of the Faculty of Pharmacy and the electronic reading rooms at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Prof. Vl. Ivanov’s Hall at St. Marina University Hospital.
The Library team wishes you Happy Holidays!
​ Free Access to Fully Downloadable Thieme Medical Textbooks and Atlases
 
Unlimited online access to Thieme E-Book Library collection of fully downloadable medical textbooks and colour atlases is available till December 31st, 2016. The German publisher Thieme provides over 100 new and revised editions of its electronic library read online and download with direct links for each book. It includes medical textbooks and colour atlases in anatomy, surgery and neurosurgery in particular, radiology, dermatology, haematology, pathology and pathophysiology, biochemistry, imaging diagnostics, clinical psychology, etc. The trial access to Thieme eBook Library is active until December 31, 2016 and is provided by the Library of MU-Varna. Downloading atlases and textbooks is possible from all IP addresses of the Medical University - Varna.
 

​Free trial access to Thieme’s neurosurgical, otolaryngology and radiology resources Until December 11th, 2016, The Library provides a free trial access from the university network for the following Thieme e-resources:
It offers:
•       More than 57,400 pages of Thieme e-book content
•       More than 52,400 images and videos
•       A collection of 418 step-by-step illustrated procedures
•       Simultaneous search across Thieme's journals and PubMed
•       More than 39,500 pages of Thieme e-book content
•       More than 58,500 im​ages and videos
•       A continuously growing collection of step-by-step illustrated procedures
•       Simultaneous search across Thieme's journals and PubMed
Hundreds of hours of video lectures, plus a wealth of content from Thieme eRadiology and Thieme RadCases: more than 49,000 ebook pages, over 99,000 images, and over 2,500 case studies.
 The access is open until December 11th, 2016. 


​On October 10th, the new library in the Faculty of Pharmacy has opened its doors. Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30-17:00. The Library is located on the 2nd floor.

​Medical publishing presentation and resources solutions 'Beyond the medical textbook… Digital resources and solutions for instructors and students' – this is the subject of a presentation to be held tomorrow, Nov. 8th, 2016 – 3 PM, at the Library of MU-Varna. Kinga Przydryga – lecturer and Health Science Manager is a representative for Macmillan Higher Education, Thieme, Wiley and Wolters Kluwer Health publishers offering wide range of supplementary materials. Bestselling titles and the most popular digital resources like ThePoint, PrepU, LauchPad, WileyPlus and WinkingSkull will be introduced during the presentation. Professors, lecturers and students are invited.

Free Trial Access to Taylor and Francis Full Collections

Taylor & Francis present a free trial access to its full collections of journals available till June 15th 2016. The thematic collections include approx. 2689 journals in 30 subject areas such as anthropology, politics, education, security and medicine. Taylor & Francis medical collections are available only to specialized medical universities such as the Medical University of Varna.

The Medical Collections are in the following areas:

  • Allied & Public Health
  • Clinical Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  • General Medicine & Dentistry
  • Pharmaceutical Science & Toxicology

Free access is available till June 15th 2016.

Free Access to AccessPharmacy till the end of May

AccessPharmacy of the publishing house McGraw Hill is available for medical professors and students of MU-Varna till the end of May this year. Its collection of leading pharmacy textbooks contains more than 30 references that are central to pharmacy education including the complete current edition of the most comprehensive text on pharmacotherapy available today, DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. AccessPharmacy also offers texts such as the Lange Basic & Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists. .

Besides textbooks, e-books and reference books, users will find:

Quick Reference – a concise outline of common conditions and disorders for quick reference in the clinical setting.

Drug therapy cases – More than 150 drug-therapy cases with questions and care plans to aid students in critical thinking and problem analysis.

Extensive self-assessment - With more than 10,000 Q&A in basic science and pharmacotherapy, users can rate their skills, making test-taking easier

Integrated drug database – Look up dosing information, indications and adverse reactions for more than 1,000 generic and brand-name drugs – along with an herb/supplement database.

AccessPharmacy gives pharmacy students instant access to videos, games, allows users to explore leading pharmacy references, search curriculum topics, research drugs and supplements.

This database is accessible from all IP addresses of MU-Varna.

Free trial access to Cambridge Journals Online

 The Library of Medical University – Varna offers a free trial access to Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), the online publishing service for academic journals published by Cambridge University Press. The site contains research articles from over 360 Cambridge Journals from over 40 subject areas, digitized from 1770 up to the present day. Relevant subject areas include:

  • Biology
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Ecology and Conservation
  • Education
  • Environmental Studies
  • Medical Policy
  • Medicine
  • Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Nutrition
  • Plant Science
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy and Counselling
  • Social Studies
 The journals are accessible at http://journals.cambridge.org until June 15th 2016. You can find a User guide her​e​
Free Full-text Access to Springer Journals and Archive

SpringerLink is Springer's comprehensive online delivery platform, providing easy access to more than 8 million resources in the world's most complete online collection of books, journals, reference works, protocols and databases. The full-text access provided by the Library of MU-Varna via http://link.springer.com/, includes over 2700 peer-reviewed journals in science, technical and medical (STM) publishing, more than 100 000 books  since 1842, 300+ reference works and book series. Springer's eBooks on the platform include monographs, textbooks, handbooks, atlases, reference works, protocols, book series and lecture notes.
 
Springer's publications is an unparalleled resource for scientific research and SpringerLink delivers fast, accurate access to the highest quality academic research. Along the way, Springer has published the work of more than 190 Nobel laureates for Chemistry, Economics, Medicine and Physics.
 
Also available on SpringerLink are the Springer Archives with previously hard to find titles.

Free Access to ClinicalKey - a medical search engine and database tool, until March 4th

The Library of MU-Varna provides free access to ClinicalKey - a medical search engine and database tool owned by medical and scientific publishing company Elsevier that offers access to the medical library published by that company. The free access is valid until March 4th. Users of ClinicalKey are given full-text access to over 600 of Elsevier's journals, 1000 books, and 9,000 medical and procedural videos. The search provides entry to the US National Institute of Health's MEDLINE database (of journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature) as well. Users can also export citations, images and copyright information into PowerPoint presentations.

 ClinicalKey gives us:

  • Full-text books and journals
  • First Aid Guides
  • Patient's Leaflets
  • 'Gold Standard' Drugs Directory
  • ‚Green Standard'  Physiscians' Reference Books
  • Millions of high quality images
  • Practical and procedural Guidelines
  • Gouvernment  authorized Clinical Tests
  • Medline access

     

NB: For remote access to ClinicalKey   you can use your credentials for Science Direct and Scopus.

Free Access to the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals and Databases till the End of February

The Library, thanks to the Bulgarian Information Consortium, provides a month free access to the databases of The Royal Society of Chemistry, valid till the end of February. It includes RSC Gold, a fantastic scientific resource hosting all RSC online journals, databases and newly published eBooks in a package.

The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 40 peer-reviewed journals, maintains a collection of online databases and literature updating services. Its portfolio covers the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics.

Our free access includes access to three of the RSC specialized data bases such as:
MarinLit - A comprehensive database of the marine natural products literature;

The Merck Index* Online - The most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Now available online and fully searchable with over 11,500 monographs;

ChemSpider - A free database of over 34 million chemical structures, properties, and associated information.

The RSC hosts the National Chemical Database Service for the UK academic community, which is an excellent access opportunity for our researches and students as well.


​The Library of MU-Varna Provides full access to MEDLINE Complete database

The Library through the Bulgarian Information Consortium provides unlimited access to MEDLINE Complete database hosted by the publisher EBSCO Host. The annual subscription of the Medical University is paid till the end of January 2017. It provides database access through all PCs of the University network via this link: https://se​arch.ebscohost.com or through the Library website. See more.
MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 2500 journals indexed in MEDLINE.  It contains also full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo.
 
 
Additionally to MEDLINE Complete the publisher EBSCO Host provides access to the following data bases:
 
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. The content is updated monthly.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 

ADVANCES IN BULGARIAN SCIENCE
Promotes the achievements of modern Bulgarian science in all fields of knowledge. Published by the National Centre for Information and Documentation.

Access available at the Library. For remote access, please email: library@mu-varna.bg

Free Access to the Academic Video Online collection of Alexander Street Press 

The Library, thanks to the Bulgarian Information Consortium, provides a free access to the databases of Alexander Street Press valid until  March 11th, 2016.

The access includes the Academic Video Online super collection blending  video, audio, and text with cutting-edge online tools in disciplines like history, literature, music, health sciences, business, and engineering.

For the medical students there are some exclusive additions of video databases in the following fields:

  • Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
  • Sports Medicine and Exercise Sciences in Video Series (Volume 1 and Volume 2)
  • Digital Imaging in Video
  • Dental Education in Video      
  • Nursing Education in Video

Medical Imaging in Video gives students and practitioners a clear, direct way to observe highly technical imaging procedures before practicing them in a clinical setting. Available for the first time in one comprehensive online interface, this resource includes 125 hours of training videos covering key topics in patient diagnosis and treatment.

You can access the database through this link or the Library website  .

​​                                   Medical University – Varna provides free trial access to „Academic Onefile“


The Library through the Bulgarian Information Consortium provides a free trial access to Academic Onefile from Gale Cengage until January 7th, 2016.

Academic Onefile from Gale Cengage Learning is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals. This comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, theology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.

You can access the database through this link http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/muvarna?db=AONE or the Library website​ .

The Library Provides Free Trial Access to Taylor & Francis Medical Collections

The library provides free trial access active until November 17, 2015 to Taylor & Francis medical collections, published since 1997 in 30 major disciplines, including:
Allied & Public Health

  • Clinical Psychiatry & Neuroscience
  • General Medicine & Dentistry
  • Pharmaceutical Science & Toxicology

Link for the collections

The Library offers a free trial access from the university network for the following Thieme e-resources:

eNeurosurgery: https://eneurosurgery.thieme.com/

It offers:

  • More than 57,400 pages of Thieme e-book content
  • More than 52,400 images and videos
  • A collection of 418 step-by-step illustrated procedures
  • Simultaneous search across Thieme's journals and PubMed

eOtolaryngology: http://eotolaryngology.thieme.com

  • More than 39,500 pages of Thieme e-book content
  • More than 58,500 images and videos
  • A continuously growing collection of step-by-step illustrated procedures
  • Simultaneous search across Thieme's journals and PubMed

eRadiology/Medlantis: http://www.medlantis.org/

Medlantis provides hundreds of hours of video lectures, plus a wealth of content from Thieme eRadiology and Thieme RadCases: more than 49,000 ebook pages, over 99,000 images, and over 2,500 case studies.

The access is open until May 31st, 2015.

Dear users,

the Library provides a 1-year online access to 40 titles of newly acquired books in the fields of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy.

Books can be used only from the computer room in the Library with a password provided by us.

A list of the titles can be found here​.


Dear Users,

We would like to inform you that the free-access electronic reading rooms on the premises of the Faculty of Dental Medicine and the auditorium "Vladimir Ivanov" in the University Hospital "St. Marina" are available by contactless magnetic cards. The cards are issued from 9:30 to 16:00 at the Library in the main building of Varna Medical University.  

Free Trial Access to Taylor and Francis Full Collections

Taylor & Francis present a free trial access to its full collections of journals available till June 15th 2016. The thematic collections include approx. 2689 journals in 30 subject areas such as anthropology, politics, education, security and medicine. Taylor & Francis medical collections are available only to specialized medical universities such as the Medical University of Varna.

The Medical Collections are in the following areas:

  • Allied & Public Health
  • Clinical Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  • General Medicine & Dentistry
  • Pharmaceutical Science & Toxicology

Free access is available till June 15th 2016.

Free Access to AccessPharmacy till the end of May

AccessPharmacy of the publishing house McGraw Hill is available for medical professors and students of MU-Varna till the end of May this year. Its collection of leading pharmacy textbooks contains more than 30 references that are central to pharmacy education including the complete current edition of the most comprehensive text on pharmacotherapy available today, DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. AccessPharmacy also offers texts such as the Lange Basic & Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists. .

Besides textbooks, e-books and reference books, users will find:

Quick Reference – a concise outline of common conditions and disorders for quick reference in the clinical setting.

Drug therapy cases – More than 150 drug-therapy cases with questions and care plans to aid students in critical thinking and problem analysis.

Extensive self-assessment - With more than 10,000 Q&A in basic science and pharmacotherapy, users can rate their skills, making test-taking easier

Integrated drug database – Look up dosing information, indications and adverse reactions for more than 1,000 generic and brand-name drugs – along with an herb/supplement database.

AccessPharmacy gives pharmacy students instant access to videos, games, allows users to explore leading pharmacy references, search curriculum topics, research drugs and supplements.

This database is accessible from all IP addresses of MU-Varna.

Free trial access to Cambridge Journals Online

 The Library of Medical University – Varna offers a free trial access to Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), the online publishing service for academic journals published by Cambridge University Press. The site contains research articles from over 360 Cambridge Journals from over 40 subject areas, digitized from 1770 up to the present day. Relevant subject areas include:

  • Biology
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Ecology and Conservation
  • Education
  • Environmental Studies
  • Medical Policy
  • Medicine
  • Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Nutrition
  • Plant Science
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy and Counselling
  • Social Studies
 The journals are accessible at http://journals.cambridge.org until June 15th 2016. You can find a User guide her​e​
Free Full-text Access to Springer Journals and Archive

SpringerLink is Springer's comprehensive online delivery platform, providing easy access to more than 8 million resources in the world's most complete online collection of books, journals, reference works, protocols and databases. The full-text access provided by the Library of MU-Varna via http://link.springer.com/, includes over 2700 peer-reviewed journals in science, technical and medical (STM) publishing, more than 100 000 books  since 1842, 300+ reference works and book series. Springer's eBooks on the platform include monographs, textbooks, handbooks, atlases, reference works, protocols, book series and lecture notes.
 
Springer's publications is an unparalleled resource for scientific research and SpringerLink delivers fast, accurate access to the highest quality academic research. Along the way, Springer has published the work of more than 190 Nobel laureates for Chemistry, Economics, Medicine and Physics.
 
Also available on SpringerLink are the Springer Archives with previously hard to find titles.

Free Access to ClinicalKey - a medical search engine and database tool, until March 4th

The Library of MU-Varna provides free access to ClinicalKey - a medical search engine and database tool owned by medical and scientific publishing company Elsevier that offers access to the medical library published by that company. The free access is valid until March 4th. Users of ClinicalKey are given full-text access to over 600 of Elsevier's journals, 1000 books, and 9,000 medical and procedural videos. The search provides entry to the US National Institute of Health's MEDLINE database (of journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature) as well. Users can also export citations, images and copyright information into PowerPoint presentations.

 ClinicalKey gives us:

  • Full-text books and journals
  • First Aid Guides
  • Patient's Leaflets
  • 'Gold Standard' Drugs Directory
  • ‚Green Standard'  Physiscians' Reference Books
  • Millions of high quality images
  • Practical and procedural Guidelines
  • Gouvernment  authorized Clinical Tests
  • Medline access

     

NB: For remote access to ClinicalKey   you can use your credentials for Science Direct and Scopus.

Free Access to the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals and Databases till the End of February

The Library, thanks to the Bulgarian Information Consortium, provides a month free access to the databases of The Royal Society of Chemistry, valid till the end of February. It includes RSC Gold, a fantastic scientific resource hosting all RSC online journals, databases and newly published eBooks in a package.

The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 40 peer-reviewed journals, maintains a collection of online databases and literature updating services. Its portfolio covers the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics.

Our free access includes access to three of the RSC specialized data bases such as:
MarinLit - A comprehensive database of the marine natural products literature;

The Merck Index* Online - The most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Now available online and fully searchable with over 11,500 monographs;

ChemSpider - A free database of over 34 million chemical structures, properties, and associated information.

The RSC hosts the National Chemical Database Service for the UK academic community, which is an excellent access opportunity for our researches and students as well.


​The Library of MU-Varna Provides full access to MEDLINE Complete database

The Library through the Bulgarian Information Consortium provides unlimited access to MEDLINE Complete database hosted by the publisher EBSCO Host. The annual subscription of the Medical University is paid till the end of January 2017. It provides database access through all PCs of the University network via this link: https://se​arch.ebscohost.com or through the Library website. See more.
MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 2500 journals indexed in MEDLINE.  It contains also full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo.
 
 
Additionally to MEDLINE Complete the publisher EBSCO Host provides access to the following data bases:
 
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. The content is updated monthly.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 

ADVANCES IN BULGARIAN SCIENCE
Promotes the achievements of modern Bulgarian science in all fields of knowledge. Published by the National Centre for Information and Documentation.

Access available at the Library. For remote access, please email: library@mu-varna.bg

Free Access to the Academic Video Online collection of Alexander Street Press 

The Library, thanks to the Bulgarian Information Consortium, provides a free access to the databases of Alexander Street Press valid until  March 11th, 2016.

The access includes the Academic Video Online super collection blending  video, audio, and text with cutting-edge online tools in disciplines like history, literature, music, health sciences, business, and engineering.

For the medical students there are some exclusive additions of video databases in the following fields:

  • Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
  • Sports Medicine and Exercise Sciences in Video Series (Volume 1 and Volume 2)
  • Digital Imaging in Video
  • Dental Education in Video      
  • Nursing Education in Video

Medical Imaging in Video gives students and practitioners a clear, direct way to observe highly technical imaging procedures before practicing them in a clinical setting. Available for the first time in one comprehensive online interface, this resource includes 125 hours of training videos covering key topics in patient diagnosis and treatment.

You can access the database through this link or the Library website  .

​​                                   Medical University – Varna provides free trial access to „Academic Onefile“


The Library through the Bulgarian Information Consortium provides a free trial access to Academic Onefile from Gale Cengage until January 7th, 2016.

Academic Onefile from Gale Cengage Learning is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals. This comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, theology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.

You can access the database through this link http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/muvarna?db=AONE or the Library website​ .

The Library Provides Free Trial Access to Taylor & Francis Medical Collections

The library provides free trial access active until November 17, 2015 to Taylor & Francis medical collections, published since 1997 in 30 major disciplines, including:
Allied & Public Health

  • Clinical Psychiatry & Neuroscience
  • General Medicine & Dentistry
  • Pharmaceutical Science & Toxicology

Link for the collections

The Library offers a free trial access from the university network for the following Thieme e-resources:

eNeurosurgery: https://eneurosurgery.thieme.com/

It offers:

  • More than 57,400 pages of Thieme e-book content
  • More than 52,400 images and videos
  • A collection of 418 step-by-step illustrated procedures
  • Simultaneous search across Thieme's journals and PubMed

eOtolaryngology: http://eotolaryngology.thieme.com

  • More than 39,500 pages of Thieme e-book content
  • More than 58,500 images and videos
  • A continuously growing collection of step-by-step illustrated procedures
  • Simultaneous search across Thieme's journals and PubMed

eRadiology/Medlantis: http://www.medlantis.org/

Medlantis provides hundreds of hours of video lectures, plus a wealth of content from Thieme eRadiology and Thieme RadCases: more than 49,000 ebook pages, over 99,000 images, and over 2,500 case studies.

The access is open until May 31st, 2015.

Dear users,

the Library provides a 1-year online access to 40 titles of newly acquired books in the fields of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy.

Books can be used only from the computer room in the Library with a password provided by us.

A list of the titles can be found here​.


Dear Users,

We would like to inform you that the free-access electronic reading rooms on the premises of the Faculty of Dental Medicine and the auditorium "Vladimir Ivanov" in the University Hospital "St. Marina" are available by contactless magnetic cards. The cards are issued from 9:30 to 16:00 at the Library in the main building of Varna Medical University.