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The Health Sciences Library is a unit of The College of Community Health Sciences, a division of The University of Alabama School of Medicine, in Tuscaloosa. In 1972 a special act of the Alabama Legislature established CCHS to provide community-based medical education, with a primary care emphasis and a family practice residency training program, designed to encourage physicians to settle and practice in the rural and under served areas of Alabama. Today the focus of CCHS continues to be in seeking solutions for rural health care problems in Alabama. A major goal of CCHS is to rank among the top national academic programs in the production of primary care physicians for rural areas.The medical program of CCHS was established under the leadership of William R. Willard, M.D. The medical student undergraduate program for 3rd and 4th year medical students is organized as a clinical campus of the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UASOM). The graduate medical education component was established as a three year family practice residency program, affiliated with UASOM.
The Library first opened in 1978 on completion of the Educational Tower built adjacent to and integrated with the DCH Medical Center. The library serves to assist the CCHS in its mission and goals in health related education, research, service, and rural health. The Library recognizes and gives priority to the information needs of the School of Medicine, as well as, to the Capstone College of Nursing, the School of Social Work, College of Human Environmental Sciences and programs in rural health. Additionally, the library serves as the primary resource for health science information for the University community, Tuscaloosa and West Alabama.
The Health Sciences Library is a gateway to health related information, worldwide. This specialized collection includes books, more than 333 current journal subscriptions, some audio-visual resources and includes access to specialized databases, library catalogs, and Internet resources. The collection covers topics in clinical medicine, family practice, medical education, health care management, nursing, nutrition and other allied and consumer health material.The REFERENCE collection provides core titles in the major medical specialties; medical dictionaries; directories of physicians, hospitals, healthcare associations, medical schools and residency programs. U.S. and Alabama vital statistics are available, as well as selected statistical series published by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Also, included are drug guides, clinical treatment guidelines and standards.
ELECTRONIC ACCESS is available at five public work stations to the following resources:
- MEDLINE
- INTERNET ACCESS using NETSCAPE
- UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SYSTEM
UA LIBRARY CATALOG
INDEXES : Eric 1991-
( includes Holdings of the Health Sciences Library)Eric 1966-1990
PsycINFO 1984-
PsycINFO 1967-1983
PsycINFO BOOK CHAPTER
CINAHL 1983-
MLA 1963-
OTHER LIBRARY CATALOGS
(Does not include Lister Hill Medical Library)
The BOOK collection is arranged according to the National Library of Medicine Classification System, developed by the National Library of Medicine to organize and provide access to the unique subjects within the health sciences.The JOURNAL collection is arranged alphabetically by title, disregarding the initial article. Note that 'the' within a the title is included in the letter by letter arrangement.
SUBJECT ACCESS to the collection on the UA Library System or on Medline is provided by MeSH, the Medical Subject Headings of the National Library of Medicine. To do a subject search of the UA Library catalog for material located in the Health Sciences Library, you should use the MeSH vocabulary, e.g. SM = pregnancy.