Libraries and Related Services

Our Mission

Our mission is to help medical professionals, students, and patients become independent problem solvers who have state-of-the-art information tools and know how to use them to address health care challenges.

The Libraries form an integrated information management center. The libraries hold more than 40,000 serial volumes, subscribe to approximately 700 journals, and house more than 8,000 books, specializing in the clinical medical sciences and nursing. Among the libraries' strengths are electronic literature searching, online cataloging, collection management, library instruction, and research consultation.

Some services are only available to Brown University Health employees. Please email [email protected] for information.

Brown University Health staff: Please visit the Libraries Intranet site (Brown University Health network access is required) for access to further information and clinical resources. 

Brown University Health Library 

Brown University Health libraries are open to Brown University Health employees, Brown faculty, residents, and medical students.

Aldrich Building, Rhode Island Hospital (main campus)
Phone: 401-444-4671
Email: [email protected] 
Fax: 401-444-8260

Hours:
24-hour badge access, 7 days a week

Our Services

Our services include book circulation, interlibrary loan and online database searches. Interlibrary loan and online database searches are only available to Brown University Health employees: 

• Library Catalog
  Libraries' print collection holdings can be located in the library catalog.
   
• PubMed 
  Medline Database—provides access to references and abstracts from 4,600 biomedical journals 
   
• MEDLINEplus Health Information 
  Health topics, drug information, medical encyclopedia, dictionary, directories, news and other resources 
   
• ClinicalTrials.gov 
  Clinical research studies for new drugs and treatments 
  (A service of the National Institutes of Health developed by the National Library of Medicine)

Email [email protected] for more information about libraries and our services.