Reference Department

The Biomedical Reference department offers a variety of services including: help researching health and biomedical subjects, advanced literature searches, group/classroom instruction, individual instruction, scholarly communication, impact metrics, and other related topics.

Chat reference is available Monday through Friday from 10am to Noon/1pm – 3pm.  
To contact the department during off hours, or to arrange an individual appointment, email the library: medlib@southalabama.edu

Chat reference is available Monday through Friday from 10am to Noon/1pm – 3pm.  
To contact the department during off hours, or to arrange an individual appointment, email the library: medlib@southalabama.edu

Reference librarians are available to conduct instruction sessions during your class time.  This can be arranged as either in-person or virtual.  Biomedical librarians can also be contacted to serve as embedded librarians within your course.  For more information contact us at: medlib@southalabama.edu

Reference librarians can be embedded into specific classes upon request by the instructor.  To arrange for an embedded librarian in your course contact the Reference Department: medlib@southalabama.edu

For a list of currently embedded librarians go to the My Librarian page.

Each department in the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, as well as all clinical units, have a designated liaison librarian. 

You may also email the library (medlib@southalabama.edu) for further information.