Accessing Library Resources from Offsite Clinical Locations

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 accomplished by "IP validation".

Affiliates of the Yale School of Medicine, Yale University or Yale-New Haven Hospital can access online resources through one of several remote access method. Remote access options and specific considerations/limitations on using Yale Library resources from some major offsite clinical locations are described below.

The Yale-New Haven Hospital Clinical Workstations
Clinical Workstations are located throughout Yale-New Haven Hospital as well as at some remote clinical sites. The Clinical Workstation computers are specially configured with software to access YNHH's clinical systems with links to clinical systems at the top of the page. Selected links to information resources are on the Clinical Workstation's Homepage. To ensure you are using the most current links, we recommend you access e-resources from links on the Medical Library's Website even when on the Clinical Workstations. All e-books, e-journals and databases available through the Yale Library system can be accessed from any computer on the Yale-New Haven Hospital network.

USING THE PROXY SERVER OR VPN FROM OTHER LOCATIONS
The Medical Library Proxy Server and the Yale University VPN are the primary remote access options for Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital affiliates seeking access to restricted Library resources. The computing climate at some institutions makes using the proxy server or the VPN difficult or even impossible because of factors including internal network architecture and restrictions on downloading VPN software or configuring Web browser proxy settings. If you are unable to use the proxy server or VPN from an offsite location due to technical reasons, contact us and we will do our best to find a technical solution for you.

MAJOR OFFSITE CLINICAL LOCATIONS

West Haven VA Hospital
Computers in the clinical areas at the VA do not allow the configuration of proxy or VPN access and can not be used to access Yale-licensed resources. The VA Healthcare system subscribes to some electronic resources including UpToDate, Micromedex and MDConsult and these should be available from VA clinical workstations.

Access to Yale University resources is available from two computers located in the VA Medical Library. A Yale NetID is required to logon to these computers which are clearly labeled "Yale School of Medicine Research Workstation". The YSM Research Workstations do not have software for creating Word or Powerpoint but they do have viewers that will allow you to look at files created in these programs. The VA Medical Library is located on the 2nd floor Building One.

Hospitals in Waterbury
Yale's Primary Care Medicine Residency program is based at Waterbury Hospital. St. Mary's Hospital is no longer a location for the Primary Care program but Yale students sometimes do rotations at St. Mary's. Both hospitals have onsite health sciences library with helpful staffs and they offer some 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.

Waterbury Hospital
The Waterbury Hospital Medical Library offers a solid collection of clinically-oriented print books and journals. Additionally, they have OVID Medline, Micromedex along with a core collection of electronic textbooks and journals.

Selected computers in areas including the residents' room on Pomeroy 6 and in the clinic can be configured to use the Yale Medical Library proxy server. VPN access is not possible from the Waterbury Hospital network. When connecting through the proxy, always use links from the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library's home page.
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 document).

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.

Bridgeport Hospital
Currently there is no option for accessing Yale Library resources from publicly accessible computers at Bridgeport Hospital. Network security measures do not permit users to modify browser settings or install VPN software. Bridgeport's Reeves Health Sciences Library has a solid collection of print resources and electronic resources including Micromedex, OVID database, e-journals and MDConsult's FirstConsult.

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
Central Campus Proxy Server
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 provides. This service uses different software and requires university 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 YNHH clinical systems. Yale-New Haven Hospital's primary remote access solution for clinical and administrative patient data is "MDLink". Although you can access library resources through MDLink, it is easier and faster to use either the Medical Library proxy server or the Yale VPN. For more information about MDlink, call 688-2610 or E-mail the MDlink support staff at mdlink@ynhh.org. Some access is availble through the YNHH VPN service. For information on access to hospital systems, see the ITS page on YNHH software and information.

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 Reading Room)

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Yale University School of Medicine

Offsite Access to Medical Library Resources