Library Guides: Collection Guidelines: Health Sciences Library: Subject Information

About this Guide

These are the guidelines by which resources are purchased for the Health Sciences Library (HSL) at the Seattle Campus. Purchase recommendations can be made via the Purchase Recommendation Form.

Collection Goals:

The Health Sciences Library is committed to providing current, authoritative and relevant information resources for the clinical care, teaching and research missions for the following University of Washington groups:

School of Dentistry
School of Medicine
School of Nursing
School of Pharmacy
School of Public Health
School of Social Work
UW Medicine
Variety of institutes and centers associated with schools and UW Medicine

Health Sciences is a broad topic that encompass bench to bedside information focused on health where the information gathered at the bench is translated into direct care of the individual, family and society at large. It is an interdisciplinary field which can include biology, chemistry and physics to nursing, medicine, sociology, psychology to public and global health. The ultimate aim is to improve the human condition from the individual level to the population level.

The Health Sciences Library follows the National Library of Medicine Classification System but will evaluate resources in these Library of Congress Classifications:

Subclass BF - Psychology
Subclass HA - Statistics
Subclass HM - Sociology
Subclass HQ - The family, marriage, women
Subclass HV - Social pathology, social and public welfare, criminology
Subclass QM - Human Anatomy
Subclass QP - Physiology
Subclass QR - Microbiology
Class R - Medicine
Subclass TA, specifically TA 164 - Bioengineering and TA 166-167 - Human Engineering