I am sorry, but this site is only supported in an strict HTML compliant browser. The site may continue to function, but may not display properly.

If you are using Internet Explorer 6 or lower, we recommend you update your browser to Intenet Explorer 11+ or try a compliant browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.

FAQ, Frequently Asked Questions

Use EZproxy. All current University faculty, students and staff can connect to the University Network from off campus. See Remote Access for fuller instructions.

In a word, no. The license agreements and contracts the library signs with publishers or vendors restrict access to current University of Utah students, staff and faculty. However, not all resources are restricted to the University community. There are several electronic resources on our web site which are freely accessible, such as our Library Catalog and PubMed MEDLINE from the National Library of Medicine.

Yes! We offer workshops for faculty, staff, students and others in database searching, full text databases, consumer and business resources, Internet resources, HTML, reprint file management, and presentation software. We can also meet with you one-on-one for a consultation. To register or for more information, please visit the Consultations and Workshops page.

To find professional journal literature, by subject, keywords or authors, consider using databases such as

  • PubMed MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. PubMed "provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources." Take the PubMed Tutorial.
  • CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, covers over 1200 professional journals in nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, and health sciences librarianship, with coverage as far back as 1982. In addition, CINAHL offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software in nursing, audiovisuals, and book chapters. CINAHL also contains complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. CINAHL with Headings contains CINAHL-specific headings. EBSCO and Cinahl Information Systems recommend using the Cinahl Thesaurus that is supplied with the database in order to get the most accurate and targeted search results. This database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.
  • See the Medical & Health Sciences Databases, A to Z page for a full listing databases that index professional literature.

- Find full text journals by title with eJournals
- Find article full text with CitationLinker (Copy & paste PubMed's PMID or publisher's DOI number into relevant box.)
The Library Catalog can tell you what journals (volumes and years) are available (online or in-print) at libraries on campus, which Eccles Health Sciences Library, Marriott Library and James E. Faust Law Library.

The Library Catalog is a discovery tool to find items available from the University of Utah libraries.

With this search and discovery tool you can search all University of Utah Libraries:

  • J. Willard Marriott Library
  • James E. Faust Law Library
  • Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
  • Emma Ray Riggs McKay Music Library
  • Harold and Kaye Dunn Orthopaedic Library
  • Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library
  • John and Toni Bloomberg Ophthalmology Library

Features include:

  • Find books, journals, digital content and more using one search interface
  • Access e-books and e-journals with one click
  • Save items in a personal e-Shelf or export them to EndNote
  • Narrow your results by availability, collection, resource type, topic, publication date, language, author, and classification
  • Get suggestions for different searches or strategies if you don't find what you need
  • Use Google/Amazon-like features including: Did You Mean? (Spell-Check), Find More Like This, & Book Covers

Boolean Operators:

Use the following operators to require or exclude keywords in your search:

Keyword Action
AND Finds only records containing all of the specified words or phrases. septic AND shock finds records with both the word septic and the word shock.
OR Finds records containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. septic OR shock finds records containing either septic or shock. The found records could contain both, but do not have to.
NOT Excludes records containing the specified word or phrase. septic NOT shock finds records with septic but not containing shock.

See Renewals.

Use our ILLiad service - you will need to be affiliated with the University of Utah. Journal articles, books, chapters and audiovisuals not at Eccles Library can be requested. Arrival time is dependant on delivery mode (fax, U.S. mail, electronic) and availablity at other libraries. See Interlibrary Loans for more information.

Interlibrary loans are subsidized by the Eccles Health Sciences Library. Fees may be assessed for large projects including systematic reviews. Before ordering 50 or more documents, requesters are asked to contact the interlibrary loan office by phone (801) 581-5282 or via email (ehsl-ill@lists.utah.edu). See our Fees page for a list of charges.

Copiers are located on the main level. Self-service copying is 8 cents per page. (Requires UCard / UPrint Anywhere)


Can't find an answer?
Search our FAQ
Get live help


Provide Feedback On Our Site

Please select at least one checkbox and, if a problem, a detailed comment describing the issue.

Found it!

Report an issue

Found it, but it was incomplete

Page, file, image, is missing, used to be there..., etc.

Page, file, image, Web form, behaving oddly, broken, etc.

None of the above. For non-Web related issues; please contact library services