At all times, information has been one of the key factors determining the development of medicine.
The library’s activities are carried out in the following areas:
- formation and storage of information resources;
- meeting the library, bibliographic and information needs of library users;
- automation of library and bibliographic processes, implementation of new information technologies;
- improving the information culture of users.
Approximately 18,500,000 books are available to the institute’s staff, residents, graduate students, and trainees . The majority of the book collection consists of textbooks, teaching aids, monographs, and scientific and medical literature.
Periodicals are subscribed every six months for a total of over 50,214,85 soms . These include magazines and newspapers from domestic and Russian print media.
The library’s reading room provides Internet access for use by the electronic library collection, which brings together full-text resources that provide library users with information, including: textbooks, teaching aids, manuals, guidelines, clinical protocols, clinical guidelines, author’s abstracts, and monographs.
The library has publicly accessible collections of: dissertations of Doctors of Medical Sciences and Candidates of Medical Sciences; abstracts of candidate and doctoral dissertations; methodological recommendations; collections.
The reading room is equipped with Internet access for using the electronic library.
Programs and databases:
Hinari – Providing developing countries with access to health research.
The Hinari programme , created by WHO in collaboration with leading publishers, provides access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality independent evidence that informs health decisions.
Research4Life is a global, non-profit initiative that provides institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with free or subsidized online access to peer-reviewed scientific publications, databases, and other information resources.
Links :
- http://www.who.int/hinari/ru
- The Russian version of the Cochrane Library is available at:
https://www.cochrane.org/ru/evidence - Cochrane Library:
https://www.cochrane.org/ru/evidence - research4life.org is the official website of the Research4Life program.
Welcome to the library for new knowledge!
Library hours:
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Lunch from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Days off: Saturday and Sunday. 4th floor, room 417.
Lead librarian: Rahisa Arakeevna Arstanbekova .
