Tool of the Week: Harrison's Online

Harrison's Online is the full-text online version of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. While the print edition of Harrison's is published every few years, the online edition is updated with new chapters as they become ready. Himmelfarb Library continues to purchase print copies of this widely used text, and provides access to the online version with its updated content.

In anticipation of the publication of the 18th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine this summer, new chapters have been added to the online edition:

• Chapter 4: Screening and Prevention of Disease
• Chapter 6: Women's Health
• Chapter e6: Neoplasia During Pregnancy
• Chapter e7: Atlas of Rashes Associated with Fever
• Chapter e23: Infectious Complications of Burns
• Chapter e24: Infectious Complications of Bite
• Chapter e25: Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Infections

Harrison's Online provides access to an important medicine textbook. Harrison's Online is also integrated into the broader AccessMedicine platform which provides access to more than seventy additional full-text books including Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (Brunton, 12th ed.) and Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli, 7th ed.). In addition to full-text books, Harrison's Online provides access to:

• Multimedia videos and animations of procedures
• Q&A resources to support studying
• Drug information
• Diagnostic test information
• Differential diagnosis tool
• Practice guidelines
• Quick answers
• Case files
• Patient education modules
• Clerkship study tool