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Peter W. Addiego
Health Sciences Library
The Peter W. Addiego Health Sciences Library supports
the patient care, biomedical research and graduate
medical education information needs of the medical
staff, faculty and affiliated students of Nassau
University Medical Center and the Nassau Health
Care Corporation. We serve the larger Long Island
community as an information resource for professionals
in all aspects of health care delivery.
The Health Sciences Library is one of the largest
on Long Island. The print collection covers every
discipline of the health care field and consists
of approximately 10,000 monographs and 24,000 bound
periodicals of over 1,000 journal titles. A large
collection of audio and video tapes and CD-ROM's
is available and can be accessed on-site. Specialized
collections are housed in the Pathology and Radiology
Departments. Specific journal articles and books
which are not available on-site can usually be obtained
through the interlibrary loan system of the National
Network of Libraries of Medicine.
The library provides access to many electronic resources.
MEDLINE and other medical data bases are available
from the National Library of Medicine. UpToDate
provides peer-reviewed clinical information. Infotrac's
Health Reference Center, with many full-text articles,
is also available online. In addition, staff can
access the Internet from computers in the library
and at workstations throughout the Medical Center.
Hundreds of subscription journal titles are now
available full-text through Ebsco Online, MDConsult
and Ovid. Unicorn, our integrated library system,
allows library users to search our catalog electronically
through WebCat. Library staff members provide user
education on these systems.
The Health Sciences Library is an attractive and
comfortable setting for literature research and
study. The library is open Monday to Friday, from
9 a.m. until 8:50 p.m., and is located on the first
floor of the Dynamic Care Building at the east end
of the garden courtyard.
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