Collections Updates & Feedback: Health Sciences Library
Updates regarding Health Sciences Library resources
Alternative Access
Alternative Access Options for resources to which the UW Libraries does not subscribe.
Collections Requests
Purchase & Reserve Requests
Please note: Due to budget limitations and what publishers make available to libraries, the Health Sciences Library cannot purchase nor subscribe to every recommended purchase or reserve request. We will respond to your request, submitted via one of these forms, within two weeks. Please allow for processing time of your request.
Course Reserve Requests
Use these forms for required course materials whether or not the library owns the resource already.
- Course Reserve Request: Reading MaterialsFor materials all students in a course are required to read.
- Please also use this form to lend materials to the Health Sciences Library Open Reserves and get them back at the end of the quarter.
- If you require students watch an online video or movie, please complete the Streaming Media Course Reserve Request form for that item instead.
- Please also use this form to lend materials to the Health Sciences Library Open Reserves and get them back at the end of the quarter.
- Course Reserve Request: Streaming MediaFor videos all students in a course are required to watch. Read the
Purchase Requests
Use this form if the library does not own the resource AND the resource is not for course reserves. If the library does not own the resource and it is for course reserves, use a Course Reserve Request form above instead.
- Purchase RequestFor recommended resources for the Libraries' collection.
Resources Available Now
- Alternative AccessLearn how to check if the UW Libraries already provides the resource or if it is available for free on the web or through our partner libraries.
- Open Educational Resources (OER)Consider using open resources instead with this Guide to OER for the Health Sciences!
Gifts & Donations
Contact
- Email the Health Sciences Library (HSL) Collections Librarian
Contact Leslie Gascon, Collection & Research Services Librarian, regarding HSL Collections.