Medical Library

Management of the Library Collections

Library Collections

The JU MC Medical Library offers both traditional and digital collections. Right now we have about 300 000 books and more than 300 journals in the printed form.

Our Library offers access to digital resources, including 42 licensed databases, over 8000 journals and more than 69 000 books, among them several hundred textbooks in Polish.

Our collections also include 6500 special items (norms, patents, audiovisual materials).

Part of our resources form reference collections of various departments and institute libraries. Location of various resources is specified in the Online Catalogue. Vast collection of textbooks for students is available at the Circulation Desk. Users can also access newest textbook editions in the Books & Journals Reading Room. Printed journals from the last five years are available in the Reading Room, while older issues can be ordered from the closed stacks. Some specialistic titles can be found at institute libraries.

Eligible users can access to our digital resources from every computer in the JU network and remotely from their own devices (see Library services available online). The e-resources search engine facilitates searching for e-books on platforms like Ibuk Libra, Access Medicine, Access Surgery, ProQuest Ebook, elibrary and ClinicalKey Student.

JU MC Medical Library owns a rich collection of Polish and foreign medical literature from the 19th century and the period between 1901 and 1945. The historical collection is being gradually catalogued and descriptions of individual items are being added to our Online Catalogue.

Theses and dissertations

Doctoral and habitation theses submitted at the JU MC are being catalogued on a continuous basis. Information about them is available via the Online Catalogue.

Full texts of doctoral theses defended at the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Health Sciences since 2004 are available (if permitted by author) on the Portal for Management of Knowledge and Scientific Potential and in the Digital Medical Library. Furthermore, chosen earlier works are digitalized and added to databases as a part of the retroconversion. Detailed information can be found in Doctoral Dissertations.

Catalogues

The Online Catalogue of the Jagiellonian University Libraries Collections offers a quick way to search library collections across the University from a single place, ideal for quickly locating a copy of a book or journal. This catalogue covers the following Medical College holdings:

  • all books published after 1998 and a variety of older books, located in the JU MC Medical Library (constantly updated),
  • all current acquisitions (since 2004) located in the JU MC Medical Library and the libraries of institutes and departments,
  • the JU MC Medical Library Reading Room Collection,
  • the Reference Collection dedicated to student use (multiple copies of items),
  • doctoral and habilitation theses submitted at the Jagiellonian University Medical College,
  • collection of medical books printed between 1900 and 1945,
  • Polish and foreign journals (updated),
  • selected eDocuments,
  • Polish and foreign eBooks accessible in the Jagiellonian University network.

 

The JU MC Medical Library Card Catalogues cover the following collections:

  • books published before 1998, located in the JU MC Medical Library,
  • books published before 2005, located in the libraries of institutes and departments.

 

NUKAT brings together the catalogues of Polish research and academic libraries. You can discover and locate their holdings in a single search.

 

KaRo is a distributed search tool designed to perform comprehensive searches in catalogues of about 250 Polish libraries of all types: research, academic, public and others. It functions as an auxiliary tool for the NUKAT catalogue.

 

In case of any questions, ask the librarian

 

Classification of Library Collections

The resources of JU MC Medical Library (including the open access book collection in the Books & Journals Reading Room) have been arranged according to the National Library of Medicine (NLM, USA) classification which is used in most medical libraries around the world. Non-medical items have been classified using the Library of Congress schedules (LC, USA).

In accordance with the applicable standards,

  • a unique call number is assigned to each book which enables users to find the required item on a shelf and in the online catalogue,
  • books on similar subjects are shelved close together to aid browsing; their call numbers start with the same code consisting of letter(s) and digit(s) (classification number).

In order to find books on a particular subject in the JU Libraries Online Catalogue, you should type the classification number you need to the “call number” box and select proper location (Medical Library or any of its institute libraries).

 

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