Medical Library
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Coffee Lectures Fall 2024
As crisp as a cookie with your coffee: short inputs on open access, science tracking, full texts, geodata, data management and literature searches.
Support for Your Master's Thesis Fall 2024 Courses
Modullary courses in liteature search, scientific writing and open science
Academic Writing Courses Fall 2024
Now open for registration: academic writing courses fall 2024
Data Literacy Platform
Help us to build a platform for data literacy in medicine.
Group room reservations now online
Reservations for the group rooms on the 1st floor of the Medical Library can now be made online.
Quick guide for making a reservation:
- Go to the website https://raumreservation.ub.unibe.ch
- Select location "Bibliothek Medizin"
- Log in with your SLSP-account
- Click on the calendar
- Fill in and save form
Details of booked slots can be accessed by clicking on the slot in the calendar.
Note: Reservations can be made a maximum of 14 days in advance.
Service
Study Spaces
- Study Spaces.
- 44 carrels for free use (ground floor)
- 250 daily study places (ground floor)
- 5 group bunks with up to 4 persons (first floor)
- 8 group rooms with 10 to 12 places and two group rooms with 16 to 20 places. Reservations can be made via the online group room reservation.
- WIFI is available throughout the library for persons with Uni accounts. With VPN access you can also use this authorization to consult e-media from home
Infrastructure
- Digital dissecting table Anatomage Table for free use
- Rental of 36 lockers per six months CHF 20
- 72 day-lockers with a deposit of CHF 2
- Uniprint photocopier, scanner, printer in black and white or color (between CHF 0.02 and 1.40)
- Comb-binding machine
- Validation station for Unicards
- Coffee machine on first floor of Cellular Biology Centre
- Other refreshment facilities
- Reading corner with daily newspapers (Bund, BZ, NZZ)
Borrowing and Information
- The conditions of borrowing and usage are based on the University Library Bern’s user regulations.
- A user account is required for borrowing. Registration is free.
- You can order most media via the Swisscovery catalog.
- Here you will find instructions for searching and ordering.
- Most books have a loan period of 4 weeks. If no reservation is received, they are automatically renewed for four weeks.
- Persons reserving borrowed media are notified when they arrive.
- Orders are retained at the loan desk for collection for five working days following their arrival.
- You can normally extend this online via your user account.
- You can bring back our books to the counter at our library or to any other messenger library. A fee is charged for reminders issued for media not returned on time.
- The Medical Library is a collection point for messenger books.
- You can receive information about general library issues at our loan desk, online or by e-mail.
- For subject-specific questions, please contact our specialists.
- Introductory and training sessions at the Medical Library are published in our News.
- During weekend and evening opening hours, full service is not available.
Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan order form
Loan Renewal Application
Document Delivery
Collection
The constant change in the medical and health sector is a challenge to keep up-to-date with the latest developments. The Medical Library therefore offers the relevant collections in preclinical and clinical medicine as well as pharmacy.
The Medical Library is linked to various university libraries in Bern and German-speaking Switzerland via a courier service.
New
Research Support Services
Research Support Medicine and Pharmacy
The Medicine and Pharmacy portal supports your studies, research and teaching. We share news and information about subject-specific events and services offered by University of Bern's Library, along with useful tools for your scientific work.
For all information please visit the Portal Medicine and Pharmacy.
Quick Links:
Contact: support_med.ub@unibe.ch
Coffee Lectures Fall 2024
As crisp as a cookie with your coffee: short inputs on open access, science tracking, full texts, geodata, data management and literature searches.
Data Literacy Platform
Data shapes medicine and how patients are treated. A platform is being built to teach the use of data in evidence-based medicine. Help us make the platform good!
Take the short survey!
Academic Writing Courses
Fall 2024. Get you place!
Support for Your Master's Thesis Fall 2024 Courses
Module courses in literature search, scientific writing and open science in fall 2024
Find information on the courses' website or in the flyer.
Events, Workshops, Courses
Coffee Lectures Herbst 2024
As crisp as a cookie for the coffee: Coffee Lectures Fall 2024
Program (PDF) | Import dates into calendar (.ics)
Always at 13:00
- 22.10.2024: Getting Help on your Scientific Journey: Open Science and Medical Library Support and Services
- 24.10.2024: Science Tracking: How Major Scientific Publishers are Expanding their Business Model
- 30.10.2024: Navigate the Jungle: Find Full Texts Quickly
- 6.11.2024: Lost in Space? Easy and Direct Access to Geodata with GeoVITe
- 21.11.2024: BORIS Portal: What's New?
- 5.12.2024: Enhance the Coverage of Your PubMed Literature Search with the Embase Search Query Translation Tool
- 10.12.2024: The Latest on Financing OA Gold at the University of Bern
Join us on Zoom: http://bib.unibe.ch/scimedCL
Coffee Lectures Fall 2024
As crisp as a cookie with your coffee: short inputs on open access, science tracking, full texts, geodata, data management and literature searches.
Always at 13:00
- 22.10.2024: Getting Help on your Scientific Journey: Open Science and Medical Library Support and Services
- 24.10.2024: Science Tracking: How Major Scientific Publishers are Expanding their Business Model
- 30.10.2024: Navigate the Jungle: Find Full Texts Quickly
- 6.11.2024: Lost in Space? Easy and Direct Access to Geodata with GeoVITe
- 21.11.2024: BORIS Portal: What's New?
- 5.12.2024: Enhance the Coverage of Your PubMed Literature Search with the Embase Search Query Translation Tool
- 10.12.2024: The Latest on Financing OA Gold at the University of Bern
Join us on Zoom: http://bib.unibe.ch/scimedCL
Contacts
Head
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Michelle Schaffer
- Funktion
- Head of the medical department and coordinator for product and transformative management
- michelle.schaffer@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 49 47
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
Research Support Services Medicine and Pharmacy
- Name / Titel
- Tania Rivero
- Funktion
- Information specialist medicine, systematic review services, (systematic) literature searches, individual research consultation and courses
- tania.rivero@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 49 07
- Name / Titel
- Tanya Karrer
- Funktion
- Information specialist medicine, systematic seview services, (systematic) literature searches, individual research consultation and courses
- tanya.karrer@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 87
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Marc von Gernler
- Funktion
- Information specialist pharmacy, systematic review services, (systematic) literature searches, individual research consultation and courses
- marc.vongernler@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 91
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Kali Tal
- Funktion
- Lecturer academic writing
- kali.tal@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 33 533 32 36
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Zayne Roa Dìaz
- Funktion
- Information specialist medicine
- zayne.roadiaz@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 86
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Sampoorna Rappaz
- Funktion
- Lecturer Academic Writing
- sampoorna.rappaz@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 89
Collection management and customer services
- Name / Titel
- Michal Pavel
- Funktion
- Head of collection management, subject librarian medicine and pharmacy, customer services
- michal.pavel@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 53 99
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Lisbeth Gomard
- Funktion
- Team management media processing
- lisbeth.gomard@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 46 13
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Irène Marconi
- Funktion
- Customer services MED and ZMK, media processing for institutes and ZMK
- irene.marconi@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 49 06
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Mohamed Wa Baile
- Funktion
- Media processing e-media, customer services MED and Vetsuisse
- mohamed.wabaile@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 85
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
Customer services
- Name / Titel
- Stefan Grosjean
- Funktion
- Head of customer services and communication
- stefan.grosjean@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 46 12
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Lorena Staiger
- Funktion
- Head of digital technologies, customer services MED and Vetsuisse, media processing Vetsuisse
- lorena.staiger@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 83
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Cornelia Schranz
- Funktion
- Customer services, media processing
- cornelia.schranz@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 81
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Claudia Schumacher
- Funktion
- Customer services
- claudia.schumacher@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 82
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Eva Pfeuti
- Funktion
- Customer services, bookbinding
- eva.pfeuti@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 30 88
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Sandra Schnyder
- Funktion
- Customer services
- sandra.schnyder@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 84
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Rian Riesenmey
- Funktion
- Customer services
- rian.riesenmey@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 47 03
- Name / Titel
- Gregory Lanz
- Funktion
- Customer services
- gregory.lanz@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 94 88
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Naomi Merkofer
- Funktion
- Customer services
- naomi.merkofer@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 46 07
- Name / Titel
- Joel Sivakumaran
- Funktion
- Customer services
- joel.sivakumaran@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 46 07