Library Access
Meharry Medical College Library and Archives occupies three floors of the S.S. Kresge Learning Resource Center, located in the heart of campus on Albion Street. Badge access is required.
Meharry Library Resources
Print Collection
The library’s main print collection is housed on the Ready Reference shelves, located on the library’s main floor. The print collection consists of clinical handbooks and guidebooks, basic and advanced sciences review and board review books, and print flash cards which focus on study of basic and advanced sciences.
Loan period is 28 days, and checkout of materials may be renewed by emailing Library Analyst III Vanessa Smith, MLIS, at vsmith@mmc.edu or by calling (615) 327-6463.
After business hours or on weekends, patrons may drop off loaned materials at the Information Desk on the library’s main floor with a note that they are returning them. Please include patron name, M number, and school.
Digital Resources
While the MMCL&A does provide print resources for loan to students and residents, librarians place a heavy focus on the provision of electronic resources which can maximize the utility and accessibility of information among its on- and off-campus users. The library provides subscribed online resources via its Digital Library to ensure its patrons always have access to its evidence-based resources for study, research, and point-of-care clinical endeavors.
The most well-known of these subscribed e-resources include:
- American Psychiatric Association’s PsychiatryOnline Premium collection of ebooks, journals and exam banks
- Elsevier’s ClinicalKey point-of-care tool and medical and dental ebook and journal collections, ScienceDirect journal collection, and Complete Anatomy licensed, 3D multimedia content
- McGraw-Hill Education’s AccessMedicine, AccessObGyn, Case Files Collection, and JAMAevidence ebook and evidence-based, interactive multimedia collections, question banks, cases, infographics, point-of-care tools, and research education content
- ProQuest’s medicine, dentistry, science, and technology ebook collections and Dissertations & Theses Global database
- SAGE Research Methods’ research education-focused Core Collection of ebooks and Foundations and Data Visualization ebook and multimedia collections and tools
- Teton Data Systems’ STAT!Ref Medical Reference medical and dental ebook collections; Decker Medicine and Decker Surgery point-of-care tools; and board review exam banks
- VisualDx’s Differential Diagnosis Builder + Derm Expert point-of-care tool
- Wiley’s Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Clinical Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers platform and Wiley Online Library dentistry collection
- Wolters Kluwer’s Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination video platform, Health Library Premium Basic Sciences, Board Review Series, and Clerkship/Rotations ebook collections, and Lexidrug for Dentistry and UpToDate point-of-care databases
- Numerous other subscription-based journal collections which provide access to tens of thousands of the most recently published full-text, peer-reviewed academic articles, all of which support Meharry’s medical, dental, public and global health, and applied computational sciences-related graduate programs and schools
Remote Access to Resources Found on the Digital Library
To gain remote access to resources found on Digital Library landing page, users must maintain a valid Meharry email account and password which allow them to access the single sign-on process Meharry requires when using all of its sites. Email accounts are issued to individuals who have a direct faculty, student, or work role with Meharry—subscription-based contracts and vendor licenses involving the library’s electronic resources restrict use to such individuals.
Remote Access Instructions
- Visit the Digital Library site at https://meharry.ovidds.com
- Click on any resource button on the righthand side of the webpage or the “Off-Campus Login” button and input Meharry credentials when prompted
- Now authenticate you are a Meharrian using your device and you will have four hours of unrestricted access to content found on the Digital Library. Some platforms found there require a personal registration and log in with a Meharry email and a chosen password, whether on or off campus (see instructions below for guidance).
PLEASE NOTE: In some instances, users who access resources from off campus already will have completed the single sign-on process, such as when signing into college-sponsored platforms such as Blackboard or Workday before visiting the library’s landing page.
- Those users automatically have four-hour access to content found on the Digital Library and do not have to sign in by either clicking a resource button or the “Off-Campus Login” button.
- Once the initial four-hour access window is up, users can click any resource button on the Digital Library to engage in the single sign-on process again by inputting their Meharry username and password and then authenticating as a Meharrian using personal device(s).
- Others who must sign into a Meharry-issued laptop before using it also already have participated in Meharry’s single sign-on process and, thus, do not need to use the “Off-Campus Login” button to access most subscribed content found on the Digital Library.
- For specifics regarding a particular vendor’s required registration and sign-in for some of the individualized resources found on the Digital Library’s landing page, contact Reference Librarian Julia Drew Rather at jrather@mmc.edu or call (615) 327-6465 with questions.