BUSM Library Resources

The Alumni Medical Library is located on the 11th, 12th, and 13th floors of the Instructional Building and serves the Boston University Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health, the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, and Boston Medical Center. The dual-purpose, 220-seat L-1101 Testing Center serves as student study space when exams are not scheduled.

Medical Library holdings include extensive electronic collections comprised of 6,636 e-journals, 11,661 e-books, 337 databases, and 123 web-based Subject Guides. Print holdings include 111,633 print volumes, of which 26,209 are monographs. Additionally, Medical Campus library users have access to the University Libraries’ collections of more than 2.4 million physical volumes, 45,000 current unique serials titles, and 77,000 media titles located at the Mugar (main University), Science/Engineering, and other BU libraries.

Electronic full-text journal collections include Elsevier ScienceDirect, Wiley InterScience, Mary Ann Liebert, Springer, and Nature Publishing packages. E-book collections include McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine, McGraw-Hill AccessSurgery, STAT!Ref, Springer Medicine, Biomedical & Life Sciences collections, American Psychiatric Association Psychiatry Online Library, and OVID LWW Basic and Anatomical Sciences. Databases include MEDLINE, Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, Natural Standard, PsycINFO, AnatomyOne, and VH Dissector. Evidence-based resources include ACP Journal Club, ACP Smart Medicine, BMJ Clinical Evidence, Cochrane Library, DynaMed, and JAMA Evidence.

Journal articles and books not owned by the Alumni Medical Library may be obtained through the Interlibrary Loan Service network, which links Boston University to the National Library of Medicine and to academic and medical libraries around the United States and worldwide. The library also participates in a cooperative agreement with 17 New England university and academic medical center libraries as part of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). The Alumni Medical Library offers a BU WorldCat Local service, which allows current BU students, faculty, and staff to borrow books directly from the BLC free of charge. BUMC patrons can also request books free-of-charge from BU libraries on the Charles River Campus via an Intra-Library Request online form. And Boston University School of Medicine students and faculty have access to the Harvard Countway Library through its dual role as the Boston Medical Library.

BUMC librarians provide a broad range of educational programming, including BUSM I and II Integrated Problems, and Family Medicine Clerkship curriculum-integrated information retrieval, evaluation, and management skills classes. Librarians also provide a 2-credit GMS Introduction to Biomedical Information course, and workshops for students, faculty, and staff. The Library’s Education program emphasizes lifelong learning, information literacy, and skills specific to searching, critically evaluating, and managing information.

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Library computing staff support courses requiring technology integration, and also provide student laptop software and hardware support services. Student laptop support includes software installation, wireless printing, VPN client configuration, Windows updates, virus scanning software updates, and removal of viruses and spyware.