Libraries

The Herbert W. Dickerman Library is a biomedical research library located in the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health. It offers reference services, interlibrary loan, database searching and use of its collection of 50,000 books and technical reports, as well as 1,000 scientific and public health journals. Through the library's homepage, faculty and students of the School of Public Health can access databases (e.g., Medline, Current Contents, HealthStar, Web of Science), over 600 electronic journals, catalogs of the Dickerman Library and other libraries, and various internet resources. The library is open 24 hours a day to faculty and matriculated students.

In addition, the Wadsworth Center provides WWW and network access to Entrez, a molecular biology database system produced by NCBI, that presents an integrated view of DNA and protein sequence data, mapping data, 3D structure data and related Medline entries.

Students also have access to the University at Albany campus libraries, which are among the top 100 research libraries in the country. The University Library and the newly opened Science Library on the uptown campus, and the Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library for Public Affairs and Policy on the Downtown Campus contain more than 1.9 million volumes, subscribe to 5,276 periodicals, and provide access to over 2.7 million microform items. The University Libraries provide access to hundreds of journals and a number of full-text databases relevant to the teaching and research needs of the University. These databases contain a wide variety of information, including references to academic journals and popular magazines, abstracts of dissertations, corporate annual reports, and complete articles from newspapers.