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LIBRARY
The Osher Research Center Library places considerable importance
on the development of resources pertaining to the principal modalities
of complementary medicine. These include but are not limited to
monographs, journals, CD-ROM databases, print and visual media,
and web consortia. In addition, we maintain relationships with a
worldwide network of researchers, commercial vendors, and librarians
working in the field.
The Research Center Library houses a paper collection of some
30,000 journal articles dating from 1830. This collection is regularly updated.
While the range of topics collected is wide, there are clearly identifiable
strengths:
- controlled clinical trials: methodology
and design
- placebo response: clinical and experimental studies,
theory
- adverse effects of complementary therapies and
botanicals
- randomized controlled trials in acupuncture, homeopathy,
chiropractic & spinal manipulation
- significant papers focusing on botanical medicine,
psychical research, dietary supplements, unconventional cancer
treatments, cognitive-behavioral therapies
- history and mechanism of ethnomedical systems
- indigenous and folk medicine
- spirituality and medicine
The Research Center Library is aggressively collecting monographs
and currently houses over 2,500 volumes in both English and Chinese. In addition,
Research Center faculty have access to all Harvard University libraries, the
largest academic collection in the world containing 12 million volumes. The
Research Center’s collection focuses on these areas:
- Homeopathy
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (includes Dr. Kaptchuk's
personal collection of journals and rare medical books in Chinese
plus modern additions)
- Acupuncture
- Herbal and Botanical Medicine
- Chiropractic
- Mind/Body
- Nutritional Medicine
- Philosophy of the science of medicine
- General reference works on alternative and complementary
therapies and research
- Government reports and proceedings.
The Research Center Library holds current or past issues of the
following serials that are focused on complementary therapies:
- Advances - The Journal of Mind-Body Health quarterly:
John E. Fetzer Institute Inc.
- Advances In Therapy quarterly: Health Communications Inc.
- Alternative and Complementary Therapies bimonthly: Mary Ann
Liebert, Inc.
- Alternative Medicine Review bimonthly: Thorne Research, Inc.
- Alternative Therapies in Clinical Practice bimonthly: Prime
National Publishing Corp.
- Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine bimonthly: Innovision
Communications
- British Homoeopathic Journal quarterly: Faculty of Homoeopathy,
Glasgow University
- Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine
quarterly: Caochang, Xiyuan
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine quarterly: Churchill Livingstone
- Cortlandt Forum monthly: Cortlandt Group Inc.
- FACT. Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies quarterly:
University of Exeter
- Forum bi-monthly: Harvard Risk Management, Cambridge, MA
- Frontier Perspectives semi-annual: Center for Frontier Sciences
at Temple University
- Healthdata Management monthly: Faulkner and Gray Inc.
- HerbalGram monthly: American Botanical Council and the Herb
Research Foundation
- HerbClip irregular distribution: American Botanical Council
- Hippocrates - Health & Medicine for Physicians monthly:
Time Publishing Ventures, Inc.
- Integrative Medicine quarterly: Elsevier, Inc.
- Integrator bi-monthly newsletter: John Weeks, publisher
- IONS Noetic Science Review quarterly: Institute of Noetic
Sciences
- Journal of Alternative & Complementary monthly: Mary Ann
Liebert, Inc.
- Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Research
on Paradigm, Practice, and Policy monthly: Reasonhold Limited
- Journal of Naturopathic Medicine semi-annual: American Association
of Naturopathic Physicians
- Journal of Nutraceuticals, Functional and Medical Foods quarterly:
The Pharmaceutical Products Press
- Massage Therapy quarterly: American Massage Therapy Association
- Mind/Body Medicine 1998; quarterly: Decker Periodicals
- Natural Pharmacy monthly: Liebert Publishing Group, Inc.
- The Choice quarterly: The Committee for Freedom of Choice
in Medicine, Inc.
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