Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) and Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, are providing free online access to emergency, disaster, trauma and radiation contamination resources to Japanese hospitals and healthcare institutions affected by the recent disasters. The online access is provided via the Wolters Kluwer Health Emergency Resources Portal. The initiative is in support of disaster relief efforts in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami. The access will be immediate and extend for 30 days.
Resources available through the portal include Ovid MEDLINE, LWW Total Access journal collection, LWW Emergency Medicine e-book collection, LWW Critical Care medicine e-book collection, LWW Hospital e-book collection and LWW Nursing e-book collection.
On offer are pre-set expert searches for instant access to relevant information on OvidSP, a medical information search and discovery platforms. The searches cover PTSD, disease prevention related to earthquakes, radiation contamination effects and treatment, public health responses, sanitation and vaccination.
Available for a limited time during the Japan earthquake crisis, access to the Wolters Kluwer Health Emergency Resources Portal is IP-validated through Japan for hospitals, institutional libraries and other healthcare entities in the nation supporting the disaster relief efforts.
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