Mobile Devices

Setting up Yale VPN on the iPhone or iPod Touch

This guide demonstrates how to set up Yale VPN on the iPhone or iPod Touch, which allows you to access licensed, web-based library resources from your device.

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Accessing UpToDate on the iPhone or iPod Touch

This tutorial demonstrates how to access UpToDate using the iPhone and iPod Touch, and how to add UpToDate to the iPhone or iPod Touch home screen.

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UCentral on the iPad

This video gives an overview and demo of UCentral, one of our premier site-licensed iPad resource.

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Using ePocrates Essentials

This video gives an overview and demo of ePocrates Essentials, which includes a popular drug database as well as a disease module and a lab test module.

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Citation and Full Text Management on the iPad - Part I

This is the first of the three videos comparing apps available on the iPad for citation and full text management. We compare 4 products available now: Mendeley, Sente, Papers, and Bookends. Whichever app you choose, it is likely that you will need both the iPad app and the desktop version (for functions not possible on the iPad), so in these videos, both the iPad apps and their desktop versions are compared.

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Citation and Full Text Management on the iPad - Part II

This video compares the various ways Mendeley, Sente, Papers, and Bookends import reference data from bibliographic databases and export data to be used in other applications.

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Citation and Full Text Management on the iPad - Part III

This video compares Mendeley, Sente, Papers, and Bookends in terms of their features for managing references and their sharing, collaboration and social features. This is the last of the three videos on citation and full text management on the iPad.

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Clinical Resources on the iPad: Stat!Ref

This tutorial demonstrates the Stat!Ref app on the iPad. Stat!Ref is a collection of electronic books and evidence-based resources for healthcare professionals. The ACP Pier database we introduced in the "Find It Fast" series of tutorials is part of the Stat!Ref collection. In addition to that, the Yale Medical Library has licensed via the Stat!Ref platform AAFP Conditions A-Z, AHFS Drug Information, DSM-IV, quite a number of books for nursing professionals, and two (Taber's and Stedman's) medical dictionaries.

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Clinical Resources on the iPad: Medscape

This tutorial demonstrates the Medscape app on the iPad. Medscape is a free app with a drug database, drug interaction checker, a diseases and conditions module and a unique "procedures and protocols" module.

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Clinical Resources on the iPad: the Micromedex Apps

This tutorial demonstrates the Micromedex apps on the iPad, which include Micromedex Drug Information, Micromedex Drug Interactions, and Micromedex IV Compatibility.

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Installing UCentral on the iPhone or iPod Touch

This video demonstrates the process of installing UCentral on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

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Installing ePocrates Essentials on the iPhone or iPod Touch

This video demonstrates how to install ePocrates Essentials on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

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