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A-to-Z EBSCO's A-to-Z® is a locator tool listing all of a e-HLbc's core suite e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases, publisher packages, etc. The easy-to-navigate, searchable list of journals allows end users to quickly find any journal or resource, even those buried in a database. Details
Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition Full-text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system. Details
CINAHL with Fulltext CINAHL® with Full Text provides indexing for 2,818 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. All journals in this collection are selectively indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Select has been added to all customers who subscribe to CINAHL with Full Text providing cover-to-cover full text for the journals that are indexed selectively in CINAHL with Full Text.

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e-CPS *Boutique License. e-HLbc Members have the opportunity to opt-in but participation is not required.* CPhA’s online Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties or e-CPS provides health care professionals with web access to the most current Canadian drug information available. Containing thousands of Health Canada–approved drug monographs, links to Health Canada advisories, printable information for patients, searchable product images and more, e-CPS is an advanced yet user-friendly resource that is updated regularly. Details
e-Therapeutics+ *Boutique License. e-HLbc Members have the opportunity to opt-in but participation is not required.* e-Therapeutics is a comprehensive drug information resource produced by the Canadian Pharmacists Association. It includes the following: e-CPS, Therapeutic Choices, Lexi-Comp's Lexi-Interact, Patient information, New Safety Information, and a Mobile companion that offers selected drug therapy options and the mobile version of Lexi-Comp's Lexi-Interact. Details
EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews) EBMR, a definitive resource in evidence based medicine, combines 7 of the most trusted EBM resources into one databases. Search all at once or separately. Details
LWW Total Access Journal Collection Includes essential core journals to specialized resources in such areas as medicine, nursing, and life sciences. Details
Medline (Ebsco) MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 12 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Articles cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Details
Medline (Ovid) MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 12 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Articles cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Details
Medline with Full Text MEDLINE with Full Text provides access to the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database and offers the full text for more than 1,370 of those journals indexed. Articles cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Details
PsycARTICLES Full-text articles in general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research psychology, as well as psychiatry. Details
PsycINFO The PsycINFO database contains almost 2 million references to psychological literature from 1887 to present, from journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations.

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OVID Linksolver
Ovid LinkSolver

Ovid LinkSolverTM is a part of the OVID administrative package of resources offered to e-HLbc’s member libraries. It is a resource linking solution that can give you complete administrative flexibility in defining, organizing and displaying links for your end-users. For more information see http://www.linksolver.com/site/index.jsp

This service also includes an A to Z full-text title list generator. This list will help your end users navigate to full-text by browsing title by title or by subject. Currently all of the full-text titles from the databases listed above including open access collections such as PubMed Central and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals are included. See e-HLbc’s test example http://gateway.tx.ovid.com/atoz/az/index?idtok=-1060706634

If you are interested in this additional feature contact the e-HLbc Administration Centre.

EBSCO’s CustomLinks

Ebsco also offers a “CustomLinks” feature. According to EBSCO, the CustomLinks(TM) feature works by allowing links to be calculated using a customer-controlled URL template. Members can create CustomLinks to their linksolver, their own library catalog, interlibrary loan forms, Serial Solutions, document delivery service, or A to Z title list. The custom links also include a number of set profiles to licensed content as well as free open access sites such as PubMed Central, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and other free medical open access journals collections. EBSCO maintains these profiles, which aids tremendously in a member’s maintenance commitments. Quite of few of the consortium members employ this feature to provide access to journal content including a direct link to e-HLbc’s Ovid content.

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Accessing Databases & E-Journals

There are several ways to access the e-HLbc databases:

OVID offers authentication by:

  • IP authentication from your network.
  • Referring URL from your library’s website.
  • Remote access through the vendors’ gateway using an ID and password.

EBSCO offers authentication by:

  • User ID and Password : allows users to access EBSCOhost remotely.
  • IP Address: grants access to recognized computer or site IP addresses.
  • Patron ID Files: facilitates the use of library or patron card numbers (up to 20 characters) to control access to EBSCOhost.
  • Customer Patterned ID (CPID): provides library bar code number access to EBSCOhost.
  • Referring URL: provides access to EBSCOhost from a secure home page on a library’s web server. Users are identified by originating URL (the page from which they came), which eliminates the need for User IDs/Passwords.
  • Athens: is available for European customers with academic reference systems. Users are prompted for an Athens user name and password.
  • Cookies: enables EBSCOhost to write a cookie to a user’s local drive for automatic access to EBSCOhost, for up to thirty days between logins.
  • Shibboleth: available for Shibboleth members to automatically authenticate to EBSCOhost.

IP Authenticated Access

Most e-HLbc member institutions have set up access to the databases through IP authentication. This method of access does not require a user ID and password. The links for this section will will take you straight to the databases if you are on an IP identified/authenticated site.

Referring URLs

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, the BC Ministry of Health, Physiotherapy Association of BC, and the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development have set up access for their members via referring urls from their Library websites.

Referring URL Authentication is a method that offers to set up an authenticated link to EBSCOhost/OVID Gateway from a secure and/or password-protected web page. When a user clicks on the resource URL, the referring URL uses a standard HTTP Referrer command to check the URL of the page that contained the link to vendor resource. If that URL is registered in vendor resource administration module, the user will be granted access.The base EBSCOhost URL for this authentication scheme is http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=url

There are times where the referring URL is not passed, due to privacy or design of the web page. Known examples of this include:

  • URLs beginning with https://
  • Some firewall software including Norton Personal Firewall
  • Scripts that use HTTP redirect
  • Links that use JavaScript to open a new window

Remote Access (user ID and password required)

User IDs and passwords for remote access may be obtained from your institution’s library services.