LIBRARY COLLECTION
The Library collects books from the medical, pharmaceutical, dentistry, nursing and health sciences field, as well as from cognate sciences fields, i.e. chemistry, biology, physics, psychology etc.
The collection of the Library comprises the resources of the Main Library, the Library of the Faculty of Pharmacy and the resources located at the clinics and various departments.
Most of Library collection (print & online) can be searched using multisearch tool EDS (Ebsco Discovery Service).
At present our collection amounts to (as of 31.12.2021) 439.136 units, including:
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books |
230.956 |
vol. |
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journals |
103.397 |
vol. |
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special collections |
104.783 |
units |
Currently there are 166 journal titles coming in, including 21 foreign and 145 Polish titles subscribed by the Library and acquired by gifts and exchange.
The Library is a member of the following consortia:
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EBSCO
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Elsevier
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Springer
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Wiley
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Your Journals@Ovid
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SCOPUS
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BMJ
The Library provides access to about 27 000 e-journals and users have access also to 213 000 e-books.
LIBRARY USERS & SPACE
As os 31.12.2021 there were 9.249 Main Library users. All users can use computer workstations with access to the Internet; in the Library wireless access to the Internet is also provided.
Three reading rooms are available to Library visitors: Reading Room 1, Reading Room 2 and Scientific Information Reading Room. There is free access to their collections.
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LIBRARY'S TEACHING AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES
The Main Library conducts the subjects delivered via e-learning to MUG students at the undergraduate and doctoral levels, including:
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the obligatory classes for all the first-year students - the aim of these courses is to familiarise students with the Library regulations and the rules of using its collections and services, mostly the ways of searching for and ordering the literature,
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the obligatory and facultative classes for undergraduate and doctoral students thereby improving their medical scientific information literacy competencies
EU-FOUNDED PROJECTS
- PPM - Polska Platforma Medyczna: a knowledge and research potential platform (01.11.2017-)
- PBC - Pomeranian Digital Library (29.06.2009-)