We’re excited to share the School of Medicine Library’s first-ever Year in Review Infographic. It showcases the library’s extensive collection and the many services we offer to support the School of Medicine community and beyond ..read more

The School of Medicine Library will not be staffed on Thursday, July 4.  24-7 access is available to all students, faculty, and staff ..read more

The University Libraries recently purchased CINAHL Ultimate, which provides access to more full text journals than CINAHL Complete.  The full-text database for nursing and allied health research is now available in the Databases page.  Click here to learn more about the database ..read more

Due to a new open access agreement between the Carolina Consortium and Springer Nature, current USC Columbia corresponding authors can publish articles in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio at no cost. * Please make sure to use your institutional email address.  Visit Springer Nature for full eligibility details as well as workflows, guides, and information on submission.  *There are a limited number of articles covered by this initiative each calendar year and publication coverage is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. I ..read more

PubMed search syntax now supports expanded use of the asterisk (*) wildcard character. Previously, a wildcard could only be used for truncation at the end of a term or phrase to search for alternate endings. With this update, wildcards can be used in the middle of a term or phrase, and multiple wildcards can be used in the same term or phrase. Refer to this NLM Technical Bulletin article for detailed examples ..read more

Joseph Hanaway, MDCM, FAAN The School of Medicine Hanaway Collection is a notable history of medicine collection  donated by Joseph Hanaway, MDCM, FAAN, a retired neurologist in St. Louis, Missouri. While at McGill University’s medical school, 1956-60, Dr. Hanaway discovered the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. He joined the student Osler Society under the Osler Librarian, Wm. Francis (Osler’s cousin), and received an introduction to the history of medicine. He began to collect books on Osler at local bookstores and continued for the next 50 years. His interests expanded to the ..read more

The Library will not be staffed on Monday, May 27, in observance of Memorial Day. 24-7 access available to all SOM students, faculty, and staff ..read more

We are pleased to announce that the SOM users now have access to JoVE Research, made available by the University Libraries.  JoVE Research includes 13 JoVE Journal titles and Encyclopedia of Experiments.  JoVE provides access to peer-reviewed videos of laboratory methods and science concepts. USC Libraries subscribes to the full Research module, which covers biology, biochemistry, engineering, environment, genetics, medicine, neuroscience and more ..read more

  Ruth Riley, Assistant Dean for Executive Affairs and Director of Library Services, has announced her retirement effective June 3, 2024. Ruth has served as the Director of Library Services since 2000 and as Assistant Dean for Executive Affairs since 2012. Ruth has shown distinguished leadership in both her roles while serving as a leader in national and regional library associations. She has served as president of the Association of Academic Health Science Libraries, chair of the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association and chair of the Partnership Among South Carolina Academi ..read more

Steven Wilson, Web & Outreach Librarian for the School of Medicine Library and Coordinator for the Center for Disability Resources Library, exhibited at the first annual "AutismConnect 2024" conference on April 23, 2024. A joint project between the Department of Disability and Special Needs and USC’s Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment (CAN) Research Center,  the conference was held at the USC Alumni Center, and featured over fifty exhibitors and hundreds of visitors from all over the Midlands.   Read more about AutismConnect 2024 Event ..read more