As School of Medicine Library (SOML) faculty, we share the university’s and Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV’s goals and contribute to the fulfillment of their mission in the areas of instruction, research, and service. We undertake research and produce scholarship in our areas of expertise and are partners in the scholarly enterprise of the school of medicine.
We define research as the creation of knowledge through curiosity, discovery, and synthesis to generate new concepts and methodologies that further our understanding of others and the world around us.
We encourage research that values reflection, critical inquiry, and the understanding that other ways of knowing and being are valid and important.
Research philosophy
As School of Medicine Library (SOML) faculty, we share the university’s and Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV’s goals and contribute to the fulfillment of their mission in the areas of instruction, research, and service. We undertake research and produce scholarship in our areas of expertise and are partners in the scholarly enterprise of the school of medicine.
We define research as the creation of knowledge through curiosity, discovery, and synthesis to generate new concepts and methodologies that further our understanding of others and the world around us.
We encourage research that values reflection, critical inquiry, and the understanding that other ways of knowing and being are valid and important.
Librarian consultations
Library consultations are an opportunity to engage in conversation with library faculty on topics related to research, scholarship, or partnering with the library. These meetings provide an opportunity to ask multiple questions and gain in-depth, advanced help as you learn about library resources, best practices, and methodologies to support your projects.
At UNLV, Library faculty are considered educators and are not designated to complete research tasks or assignments on behalf of faculty, staff, students, residents or fellows.
Systematic review consultations
Systematic review consultations are for seeking guidance on systematic, scoping, or related synthesis reviews. Due to the technical and time-intensive nature of evidence synthesis projects, librarian faculty have more specific goals and guidelines for these types of consults.
- The librarians’ goal is to help project teams complete a protocol
- We limit to 4 hours of consultation time per project
- Librarians will ask for more information and likely ask you to complete tasks between consults to ensure effective meetings with continued progress
We highly encourage meeting with a librarian before starting the search formation process.
Librarians do not provide PRESS reviews and do not co-author with medical student, resident & fellow, and graduate student teams
Consultation guidelines:
The guidelines below are provided to help prepare faculty, staff, students, residents and fellows for having a productive experience during their consultations.
- Be prepared for your consultation. Library faculty may request information to effectively help you with your project. As non-subject matter experts, we need to know in advance your topic, proposed research question, and studies you may have found related to your research interest.
- Be on time to your consultation. We understand that things may come up and ask that you communicate any delays with library faculty.
- Exhibit positive interprofessional conduct. Professionalism is a critical part of academic health. Working interprofessionally is important in both the academic and health care setting.
Reasons for cancellations:
- Consultee does not show after 15 minutes from the start of the meeting.
- Consultee has not provided librarian requested information at least 3 business days prior to the start of the session for research consultations.
- Library faculty observe repeated cancellations and "no shows".
- Library faculty observe poor interprofessional conduct, this may include but is not limited to repeated disregard of library faculty guidance and expertise, repeated requests to prepare prior to the consultation, exhibiting abusive language/communication or conduct, etc.
- Consultation privileges may be revoked if repeated infractions occur.
Request instruction:
- If your consultation includes 3 people or more, or is not focused on one specific project, please contact us by email to discuss requesting an instruction session.
Resource guides
Resource guides are created and managed by library employees to bring together related resources for a particular topic or group of people. They are created to help supplement curriculum content, gather tools for student learning and success, and highlight important topics of interest. Each guide is unique but all contain a mix of links to databases, books, websites, and other sources of information that can support research and lifelong learning.
Research software
Please refer to our Hardware & Software page under our Technical Services to view specialized software available in the library computer lab.
General Assistance
For all other inquiries, we provide general library assistance during regular business hours, Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. We can be reached by:
- Visiting the Service Desk on the 3rd floor of the MEB
- Phone: 702-545-2005
- Email: medlib@unlv.edu
- Chat with us
Faculty and Curricular Services
Teaching Resources
- A linked list of all the required and recommended reading for Phase I of the curriculum is found in the UME Student Guide
- Please contact the UME Librarian if there need to be updates
- Cases, videos, images for presentations, etc. can be found within our subscription resources accessed on the A-Z list of Medical Databases.
- You may need to create a separate user account to access some features.
- If you would like a physical copy of a course text to be placed on reserve at the service desk, please contact us at medlib@unlv.edu
Linking to resources
- All links placed in syllabi, course documents, and websites should be proxied.
- You can use the UNLV Libraries Proxy Link Generator to create them.
- If a proxied link is not working while you are off-campus, please try clearing your browser cache first.
If you still have problems, please reach out via medlib@unlv.edu, call our desk at 702-545-2005 or contact an individual team member for assistance.
Instruction and collaboration
Librarians are happy to schedule instruction to groups of 4+ people interested in the same topic. We ask that you contact us, at minimum, two weeks in advance of your preferred date and time.
The faculty librarians are also available and interested in deep collaboration on projects, research and embedded instruction that utilize their expertise and specialized interests.
We invite you to reach out to the librarians individually to request instruction and collaboration.
Educational software and subscriptions
Please refer to our Hardware & Software page to view specialized software available in the library computer lab.
Study aid and test preparation software is typically handled by Academic Success within the Office of Student Affairs.
If you would like to suggest a resource for teaching and/or research, please refer to our Materials Request Services.
Technology to borrow
The School of Medicine Library provides services that support the teaching, learning and research needs of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. This is made possible through support from the University Libraries and the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. The library provides both onsite technologies and lendable technologies for Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine faculty, staff, medical students, residents and fellows.
Materials Request Services
The School of Medicine Library, as part of the UNLV Libraries, provides access to thousands of electronic journals and books. However, there still may be times when the item you need is owned in print at another campus library location, or the UNLV Libraries do not own the item. To meet these needs, the library provides book paging, interlibrary loan, and document delivery services.
Paging
Requests for books held at other UNLV Libraries locations to be transferred to the School of Medicine Library (625 Shadow Lane) can be made through the catalog.
- After finding the item you wish to request, login with your ACE Account to see all request options.
- Click the blue “Request” link and choose School of Medicine Library from the “Pickup Library” menu.
- You will receive an email when the item has arrived at the School of Medicine LibraryRequested items should arrive within 2-3 business days
- You can track progress by going to “My Library Card” in the catalog
- The status will indicate that it is on hold at the School of Medicine Library once it has been received by library staff
Document Delivery
Document Delivery provides pdf scans of article and book chapters from the UNLV Libraries' collections (journals, books and other materials) to UNLV students, faculty and staff. Please see the guidelines and instructions for requesting Interlibrary Loans.
InterLibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a UNLV Libraries’ service that obtains materials from libraries around the world. Interlibrary Loan supplements the resources directly owned or licensed by the UNLV Libraries and is available only to UNLV students, faculty and staff.
ILLiad
ILL and Document Delivery requests are made through the ILLiad software system.
- All users MUST have a library account (same as your ACE account) to register and use ILLiad.
Request for rush processing of an item
Please fill out the rush cataloging request form to rush items recently purchase by the Libraries that are listed as "in process".
Suggest a purchase for the School of Medicine Library
We welcome your suggestions to purchase both print and electronic items for our collections. Your suggestion will be reviewed by a subject librarian but we cannot guarantee every request.