Biomedical

Library users may have recently encountered a reCaptcha error in Google Scholar resulting from a Google block on traffic from the library’s proxy server. This problem is being experienced by other libraries as well; however, Google has been unresponsive to requests to correct the issue. We have temporarily removed the… Read More

Vanderbilt’s libraries are following university protocols, CDC guidelines, and recommendations from the international library community in the safe handling of library materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. All circulating materials and items in Special Collections are quarantined for at least 72 hours before they can be re-used. Your health and safety is the library’s… Read More

Vanderbilt Special Collections and University Archives is documenting and archiving the responses of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center students, staff, faculty, and administration to the COVID-19 pandemic to preserve this window of time for future historians, researchers and others. Chris Ryland, curator of History of Medicine Collections and… Read More

At the end of last semester the library extended item due dates to September 4th. If you have graduated or are not on campus, you have some options to return these items: Book Drop: If you are in Nashville, you may return items to a campus book drop. Shipping Items:… Read More

The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center will re-open on Wednesday, August 5th. HOURS: Monday through Friday, 7:30 am – 6:00 pm  ACCESS Badge access is restricted to students, staff, and faculty from VUSM (MD), VUSM (non-MD), VUSM Basic Sciences, VUSN, and VUMC only. All entrants… Read More

Vanderbilt’s libraries never ramped down during the stay-at-home order. Indeed, they have been busier than ever, remotely providing resources and services.  Over the last few months, Vanderbilt has purchased hundreds of e-books and made connections to tens of thousands of new resources in every field. On May 26, a small… Read More

The new PubMed interface will become the default on Monday, May 18, 2020. The Vanderbilt Libraries E-Resources Team is diligently moving all links to journal subscriptions to the new version. We anticipate all links to be moved and active on by Monday. Please email us if you encounter any… Read More

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its ever-increasing burden on the health care system, many health sciences students are being removed from their clinical rotations. In lieu of these valuable experiences, students are returning to the classroom in need of higher-level clinical textbooks. Heather Laferriere, health sciences informationist at the… Read More

If you’re a Vanderbilt student, 2020 graduate or faculty or staff member, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries invite you to document your experience of the COVID-19 pandemic for historians and future generations. Keep reading…… Read More

HathiTrust has created the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS), which will allow Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff online reading access to materials that Vanderbilt Libraries own in print during this period of remote teaching, learning, and research. Access is available until further notice.  Users need to login and… Read More