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Contact | Collection overview | Libraries & reading rooms | Important e-resources

Contact

Linda Atkinson, Reader Services and Outreach Team Manager, Bodleian Health Care Libraries
tel: +44 (0)1865 221950
email: linda.atkinson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Jo Gardner, Desk Services and Resources Manager, Bodleian Health Care Libraries
tel: +44 (0)1865 221937
email: jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 

Juliet Ralph, Life Sciences and Medicine Librarian, Radcliffe Science Library
tel: +44 (0)1865 272853
email: juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Collection overview

Collection policy with appendix for Medicine

Libraries and reading rooms

Principal collections

Clinical medicine is primarily served by the Health Care Libraries across two sites which house collections of current material. The Health Care Libraries cater for both the University and the local NHS Staff. Specialities are as follows:

• Cairns Library, John Radcliffe Hospital
  Acute General Medicine/Surgery (all disciplines), Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Geratology, AIDS, Neurosciences, Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology and coursebooks
• Knowledge Centre, Old Road Campus Research Building
  Epidemiology, Evidence Based Healthcare, Health Policy, Public health medicine, Statistics, Diabetes, Oncology, Radiotherapy

Non-clinical medicine is primarily served by the Radcliffe Science Library. Its extensive collections in Life Sciences and Medicine date from the 19th Century, including legal deposit and purchased material of both historical and contemporary interest. It collects the legal deposit material in clinical medicine, and legal deposit and purchased material in non-clinical subjects such as Experimental Psychology, Human Anatomy and Genetics, Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology.

Since  2007 the RSL has absorbed the collections of the Hooke, Geography,  Experimental Psychology, Plant Sciences and Zoology libraries to become a combined lending and reference library.  Books supporting teaching and research can be found in the reading room on Level 2; journals on Levels 6-8. Older and less-used material is kept in the Stack or Offsite, including scientific doctoral theses submitted for degrees at Oxford University. All stock is catalogued on OLIS and Stack material can be requested online for consultation in the libraries.

Associated collections

• History of Medicine (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library)

Important e-resources

Full text databases

All major scientific full text databases are available online with a full list appearing in OxLIP+.

Databases of interest to Medicine and Health Care include Medline and PubMed, AMED, British Nursing Index, CINAHL, Embase, HMIC, PsycInfo, Web of Knowledge, the Cochrane Library, Trip, and UpToDate. 

Electronic journals

Major scientific & medical journals are available via Oxford University e-Journals.

There are more specific subject guides for various specialties on the Health Care Libraries and the Science Libraries websites providing more information about suitable e-resources, services and training.