Biomedical

After more than 27 years at the Eskind Biomedical Library, Camille Ivey will be entering retirement on January 16, 2025.   Camille joined Vanderbilt in March 1998 as a Health Information Analyst at EBL, bringing her expertise and enthusiasm to every role she’s held. Originally from Alabama, Camille… Read More

The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center will be closed January 20th to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will resume normal Spring semester hours on Tuesday, January 21st.   EBL Staff  … Read More

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., a global media company that publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed academic journals, today announced a three-year read-and-publish agreement with Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Effective from 2025 through 2027, the open access agreement is the first of its… Read More

Students, staff, and faculty from Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center are invited to our cupcake celebration for the 30th Anniversary of the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center. October 15, 2024 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EBL First Floor Lobby Selected bibliography about the… Read More

Vanderbilt’s History of Medicine Collections is observing the university’s Sesquicentennial with the continuing exhibit, "United in Purpose: 150 Years of Medicine and Nursing at Vanderbilt." Read More

In 1935, the Vanderbilt medical library acquired a unique, 840-item collection of books, pamphlets and newspaper clippings on hypnotism from the personal library of the prominent German psychiatrist Dr. Albert Moll. Offered sight unseen by a German bookseller, the multilingual collection offered a unique perspective on the history of hypnosis as well as related subjects. Read More

On behalf of the staff of the Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, welcome to all new students, staff, and faculty to Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The building contains the Eskind Biomedical Library (first floor and lower level), History of Medicine… Read More

We are thrilled to announce that our esteemed colleague, Kayce Gill, has been… Read More

Collaborations between Vanderbilt University faculty and librarians at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries highlight an important facet of the academic librarian's role: leveraging research expertise to find and organize information and evaluate its quality, accuracy and validity to bolster faculty scholarship. Read More

NERL, a consortium representing some of America’s leading research institutions, and Springer Nature, a global leader in research publishing, have agreed to a new three-year open publishing agreement. The deal provides seven NERL member institutions with read access to the entire corpus of Springer journals and permits eligible… Read More