Using the Library

Using the Library

• Print and electronic books
• Print and electronic journals
• Articles & information on a topic -- What databases are available?
  
• What if the library doesn't have what I need? Use Interlibrary loan if you're affiliated with the University of Chicago. Or you can use a commercial document supplier.
  
• Course reserves - how to find materials for a class or how to place things on reserve
  
• Who has cited your paper? Use Science Citation Index to find out!
  
• Having trouble keeping up with the literature? Try a current awareness service like Current Contents.
  
• How to cite references
• Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine
• Manuscript and Archival Collections
• Where is the Microfilm/Microform collection at Crerar?

The University of Chicago's collections of 1.4 million volumes in pure and applied sciences and in the history of science and medicine are housed in The John Crerar Library, and Eckhart Library (Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics). Most print resources in the medical sciences locate in the John Crerar Library. The Library also provides access to a wide variety of electronic resources - journals, books, databases - that are accessible from your desktop anywhere on the University of Chicago campus or hospitals or your home computer.

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If you have any questions about resources or services available to the biomedical sciences community please contact Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian or Christa Modschiedler, Biomedical Bibliographer & Reference Librarian. You may also email the Crerar Reference Staff.

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