Medical Science Library

The library has the richest collection of medical literature in Northeastern Bulgaria – more than 160,000 volumes of books, monographs, collections and scientific journals. Our main goal is to support the educational process and scientific activity of the university. The central library is located in the main building of the Medical University – Rectorate. The library has branches and/or electronic reading rooms in the faculties of pharmacy and dentistry, in the Medical College, and in the University Hospital “St. Marina”, as well as in the cities of Veliko Tarnovo, Sliven, Shumen. The electronic on-line catalog of the library is accessible in the university computer network and all branches of the library. The scientific collections and archives are in the fields of medicine, natural sciences, public health, dentistry, pharmacy, management and marketing in healthcare, etc. in Bulgarian and foreign languages. The electronic resources of the library support scientific databases, platforms with interactive textbooks and atlases, digital collections of textbooks and monographs. The library maintains subscription or provides temporary access to leading world databases for medical literature such as AccessMedicine, MEDLINE Complete, Springer, EBSCO Discovery Service, Oxford Journals Collection, Taylor and Francis Collections, Thieme, ClinicalKey, etc. Databases such as Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect, Scopus and InCites have licensed online access, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. They provide both bibliographic and abstract information, as well as full-text articles published in leading foreign scientific journals and collections. The databases can be used free of charge and through registered remote access from home computers and mobile devices. The library team provides bibliographic references, references for citations and Impact factor, consultations for publication in Bulgarian and foreign journals, searches and systematizes publications on a selected topic from subscribed foreign full-text databases and other specialized sources of scientific information…