Biomedical

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

The Vanderbilt University Libraries are signing numerous licenses with academic publishers who are promoting open access journals. Currently there are more than 1000 journals available across all disciplines to publish in. These transformative agreements are different from the traditional publishing models because they promote open access which also produces more… Read More

Rachel Walden has been a valuable member of the EBL team since 2015 and has all the skills, knowledge and vision to lead this unit.  She has an impressive record of performance, research and service that shows her potential for professional growth and promotion. She is highly engaged with the… Read More

McGraw-Hill has released a new mobile app for AccessAnesthesiology, AccessMedicine, AccessPharmacy, and AccessSurgery. The app features content from across all Vanderbilt subscribed Access databases. Users can search and favorite books, cases, images, and videos. Other important features include access to review questions and the ability to view content offline. To… Read More

We are delighted to announce the recent acquisition of several resources: AccessAnesthesiology Key anesthesiology textbooks, guidelines, procedural videos, case studies, and review questions. AccessSurgery Key surgery textbooks, guidelines, procedural videos, images, case studies, and 3,000 ABSITE-style review questions. ClinicalKey Student Collection of textbooks, images, and videos covering… Read More

The EBL Literature Review Search Services requests have grown tremendously over the last few years. We are extremely delighted to assist and grateful for the opportunities to be your research partners. Due to the demand and complexity, we are asking all future requests for literature searches (systematic reviews, scoping reviews,… Read More

The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center will begin its Summer Hours on Sunday, May 21st. Sunday: 12:00p – 6:00p Monday: 7:30a – 8:00p Tuesday: 7:30a – 8:00p Wednesday: 7:30a – 8:00p Thursday: 7:30a – 8:00p Friday: 7:30a – 6:00p Saturday: 12:00p – 6:00p Fall 2023… Read More

Philip Walker, director of the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, has been invited to serve on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. The term begins immediately and ends in August 2026. Before his official appointment to the… Read More

The Eskind Biomedical Library is moving from Ovid Embase to Elsevier Embase. The Elsevier platform offers more search options such as the drug search, medical device search, PICO search, and more as well as a faster search speed. Please visit the Biomedical Library Training & Citation Management: Resource Tutorials… Read More