Offsite Access

Offsite Access to Medical Library Resources

All of the Library's electronic resources are accessible from anywhere in the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. Passwords are used only in a few special cases. Identification of authorized users for ebooks, ejournals and other electronic resources is accom plished by "IP validation". This means that vendors can recognize requests that originate from computer either physically or virtually on the Yale University or Yale-New Haven Hospital network.

Any affiliate of the Yale School of Medicine, Yale Univers ity or Yale-New Haven Hospital can access a large and continuously growing collection of online resources through one or more remote access method. Remote access options and specific considerations/limitations for viewing library resources from offsite c linical locations are detailed below.

THE MEDICAL LIBRARY PROXY SERVER
The Medical Library Proxy Server works with existing Internet service to allow access to resources restricted to Yale computer network. The proxy service can provide access from the home, clinical sites around Connecticut or from any place on the planet where there is Internet access. The proxy server works with conventional modem connections as well as high speed home Internet service options like DSL and cable modems. It is also possible to utilize the proxy from other hospitals, clinics or other si tes to reach restricted Yale resources.

The computing climate at some institutions makes using the proxy server difficult or even impossible because of the way Internet access is managed or because users are not permitted to change Web browser settings. If you are unable to use the proxy server from an offsite location due to technical reasons, we would be happy to discuss the issue with that institutions IT staff.

FROM OFFSITE CLINICAL LOCATIONS
Hospitals in Waterbury
Yale's Primary Care Medicine Residency program is based at St. Mary's Hospital and Waterbury Hospital. Both hospitals have onsite health sciences library and available electronic resources. Yale affiliates (house staff, medical students and PA students) can also access Yale resources while on rotations in Waterbury by using the Medical Library Proxy Server

St. Mary's Hospital
The Finkelstein Library at St. Mary's Hospital has over 250 clinically-oriented journals and a core collection of books. If you are on the St. Mary's Hospital network, this link will take you to their electronic resources - Internal Access to St. Mary's Library Resources
You can access Yale Medical Library e-resources from St. Mary's by following the instructions on the attached sheet - Accessing Yale Library Resources from St. Mary's Hospital (Adobe Acrobat Reader required for this documen t).
Make sure you have applied for and received your proxy password before trying to access Yale resources from this or any other location configured for proxy server connectivity.

Waterbury Hospital
The Waterbury Hospital Medical Library also offers a solid collection of clinically-oriented books and journals. Additionally, they have OVID Medline along with several other databases and a small c ollection of electronic textbooks available locally.
For the convenience of Yale affiliates, computers in the library as well as several other computers frequently used by residents have a specially configured copy of the Netscape browser which is labeled "Yale Residency Program". This copy of Netscape is configured to use the Yale Medical Library proxy server. You will be prompted for your proxy login/password and will then go directly to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library's homepage.

Library staff in both these locations are happy to assist you in accessing their own resources as well as Yale-based resources.

West Haven VA Hospital
The computers network in the clinical areas of the VA West Haven do not allow you to use the Yale Medical Library Proxy Server. The VA New England Healthcare System does provide some access to electronic resources. Check with the VA Medical Library's st aff for details on what electronic resources are available on their network. Yale affiliates can use a OVID "Personal Edition" account to gain access to the subset of resources provided by OVID, a vendor for some of our databases, journals and books.

Community Health Centers
Hill Health Center and Fairhaven Community Health Center have computers available for clinicians can use to access the Medical Library through the proxy server. At Fairhaven, all computers in the charting room have a icon labeled "Yale Medical Library". Click on this to open a version of the Netscape browser configured to automatically prompt for a proxy password and go to the Library's home page.

OTHER REMOTE ACCESS OPTIONS
Yale PPP Accounts
Yale University provides reasonably priced Internet access through ITS-MED (Information Technology Services - Medicine). These PPP accounts can be used for general Internet service as well as Yale-specific applications. When connected through a Yale PPP account, you have access to all resources of the Yale Library system. There is no need to use a proxy server if you connect through a Yale PPP account.

See the ITS-MED site for more information about Remote Access PPP Accounts.

Central Campus Proxy Servers
There is also a proxy server on the central campus. The Remote Authentication Proxy Server will provide access virtually identical to what the medical library proxy server provide s. Be warned that there are a few Medical Center restricted resources (e.g., Micromedex) you may not be able to access. This service uses different software and requires NETID authentication .

Remote Access to Yale-New Haven Hospital Clinical Systems
None of the remote access methods offered by the Yale School of Medicine will allow you to reach clinical systems. Yale-New Haven Hospital's remote access solution is "MDLink". MDLink provides secure access to clinical and administrative patient data at Yale-New Haven Hospital. For more information about MDlink, call 688-2610 or E-mail the MDlink support staff at mdlink@ynhh.org.

THE YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL CLINICAL WORKSTATION
Clinical Workstations are located throughout Yale-New Haven Hospital, associated outpatient facilites and even some remote clinical sites. See this page for a list of C linical Workstation Locations. The Clinical Workstation computers are specifically configured and loaded with a set of software to access YNHH's clinical systems. The resources are presented through a set of Web pages constructed for the Clinical W orkstations.

Although the Clinical Workstation Web page is accessible from other computers within the Medical Center, not all of the links will function properly. This is especially true for computers on the Yale School of Medicine network. F or this reason, we recommend that you do NOT use these pages to access Library resources unless you are on a true Clinical Workstation. All e-books, e-journals and databases that you can access on the Clinical Workstations are available through the Cushi ng/Whitney Medical Library's Web pages.

For further information on any of the above contact:

Mark Gentry, Clinical Support Librarian
Email - mark.gentry@yale.edu
Telephone - (203) 785-2163
Office Location - Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
YML 113B (in the Morse Periodical Room)

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Yale University School of Medicine

Offsite Access to Medical Library Resources