Biomedical Scientists

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This guide provides an awareness of key library- and data-related resources and services for you as biomedical faculty at UVA.

Research@HSL	Expert assistance with biomedical literature search and data discovery, organizing and managing your research project and bibliography, creating presentations and posters, and disseminating and sharing your research.
Data@HSL	Data consultation services and biomedical data and statistics training opportunities. Get expert consultations by appointment on statistical software such as R, python, Stata, SAS, and SPSS
PHS @ the Library	Free, virtual service to address introductory statistics and research methods questions.
UVa Bioinformatics Core	Provides expert bioinformatics consulting and data analysis solution for both grant-funded and chargeback-based projects on management and analysis of large-scale biological datasets produced by high-throughput genomics experiments.
Computing and Spaces	Use our academic or Health System network computers. Reserve group study rooms, collaborate in our multipurpose area or find a quiet study in our ID-access 24-7 area.
Find Expert Assistance	Request an Information or Data Consultation Contact your Library Liaison Can't Find a Book, or Article? Request it via ILL

Selected Resources to Find Books, Articles, and Protocols

Find Print and Online Books

Virgo UVA’s Library Catalog - search for print or online books at any of UVA's libraries (choose Limit by Resource Type Books after searching)

Find Article Citations and Preprints

Search full-text articles by collection

PubMed Central (PMC) (collection of publications resulting from NIH funding)
Europe PMC (worldwide collection of life science publications and preprints and repository for many international funders)

Search full-text articles by publisher

Find Protocols and Other Resources

Off-Grounds Access

U VA Anywhere: Provides an off-Grounds connection via VPN software to library resources (databases, e-journals, e-books etc) that normally require you to be on Grounds to use them.
Interlibrary Loan: request copies of books or journal articles UVA doesn't own (UVA-only; login required)

Free Expert Consultations

Research @ HSL - Expert assistance with biomedical literature search and data discovery, organizing and managing your research project and bibliography, creating presentations and posters, and disseminating and sharing your research.
Data @ HSL - Data consultation services and biomedical data and statistics training opportunities. Get expert consultations by appointment on statistical software such as R, python, Stata, SAS, and SPSS
PHS @ the Library - Free consultation service to address introductory statistics and research methods questions.
UVA Research Computing - help with cutting-edge computational resources and issues around optimization, parallelization, workflow, etc.

Software at UVA

Online Learning

Online courses through UVA's subscription to LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
E-books through O'Reilly