Libraries

 

Public Health Libraries

Matthew Wilcox, EPH Librarian

The Yale School of Public Health is one of the few accredited schools of public health with its own separate library. The Public Health Library has extensive collections in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, environmental health, international health, chronic disease epidemiology, emerging infectious diseases, and microbiology. The collection includes over 28,000 monographs, 350 current and bound journal subscriptions and a rapidly expanding array of electronic resources. Special collections include publications from the World Health Organization, and the National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics for Connecticut and United States Census materials. The historical collection includes EPH theses and community projects and early public health materials. In the fall and spring semesters, the library also has an extensive reserve reading collection.

Throughout the year the EPH library offers classes in using electronic resources to EPH students covering such databases as Medline, Health Star, and others. Classes on the Internet and World Wide Web are also offered.

The EPH Library is part of the Yale Library System and is linked to other libraries on campus by Orbis, the University's online catalog. Students in the department also have privileges that include Eli Express, interlibrary loan services, and access to the collections in Yale libraries. The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Seeley Mudd Library, Government Document Library, Forestry and Environmental Sciences Library, Lillian Goldman Library at Yale Law School, and Social Sciences Library have important print and electronic resources in their collections that address the multidisciplinary information needs of the students in public health.

The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, located in the School of Medicine, has extensive retrospective and current holdings of journals and manuals in biomedical research. The library subscribes to over 2600 serial titles. Its sophisticated computer technologies allow students access to subsets of Medline from the National Library of Medicine. Interlibrary loans from libraries throughout the country are arranged through this library.

The Sterling Memorial Library

The Sterling Memorial Library, located on the main campus, is the third largest library in the country. In addition to its many volumes, it carries over 300 foreign newspapers and microtext materials and approximately 130 domestic newspapers.

The Seeley G. Mudd Library

The Seeley G. Mudd Library, near the main campus, houses the Documents Center and contains the comprehensive depository collection of US Government Publications at Yale. It also contains the depository United Nations collection as well as Canadian Government (from 1968), Food & Agricultural Organization and European Community publications.

Other Science Libraries

For links and information about other Yale science libraries, go to the Yale University Science Libraries site.