The following services are available to all WSU faculty, students, and staff:

Access to extensive collections, available either onsite or electronically. Among these electronic resources are:

UMI Medical Library - funded through the Cooperative Library Project, offers indexing and full text of 112 academic level, health sciences journals with full page image from 1997 -. Nineteen of the journals have color illustrations.

PubMed- provides access, free of charge, to MEDLINE, a database of nearly 9 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. It also contains links to the full-text versions of articles at participating publishers'Web sites.

HSTAT- a free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text of documents useful to health care decision making. It includes clinical practice guidelines, quick-reference guides for clinicians, consumer brochures, and evidence reports sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR); AHCPR technology assessment reports, National Institute of Health consensus development conference and technology assessment reports; NIH Warren G. Magnuson clinical research protocols; HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Services resource documents; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment improvement protocols; and Public Health Service Preventive Services Task Force Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. It also provides a link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Guidelines Database.

ABI Inform - funded through the Cooperative Library Project, offering indexing and some full text to nearly 1,000 journals in business and economics.

Access to Griffin, the joint online public access library catalog for Washington State University and Eastern Washington University. Griffin lists the library holdings of these two universities and serves as a gateway to many of the electronic databases available to WSU students, faculty, and staff.

Interlibrary loan service for items not in the local collection, primarily using DOCLINE, the National Library of Medicine's automated interlibrary loan request and referral system which automatically routes interlibrary loan requests throughout the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, based on a profile of lending libraries. The Libraries also use OCLC's interlibrary loan subsystem, offering international access to the library collections of the more than 27,000 OCLC member libraries in 64 countries, and WLN's interlibrary network offering access to the collections of many Northwest regional libraries. When possible, the WSU Libraries use Ariel software for interlibrary loan because it allows scanned images of an article to be transmitted quickly and very accurately among libraries.

Subsidized, unmediated document delivery service for faculty, using a variety of commercial document delivery services including HIFY, a service of the University of Washington (UW) Health

Sciences Libraries and Information Center, providing transmission of articles from any of the UW collections via PDF file, fax, or U.S. Mail, normally within 1-2 working days.

                    Reference assistance, offered in person, by telephone, and by e-mail.

Library user education, designed to complement course assignments and research in health related disciplines.

Four of the eleven Washington State University Libraries have primary responsibility for serving the instructional and research needs for the health-related programs currently offered at WSU. They are:

Betty M. Anderson Library (Spokane)

The Betty M. Anderson Library is the primary library serving the Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education and the WSU College of Nursing, supporting its baccalaureate, master's, and registered-nurse-to-baccalaureate (RNB) programs in Spokane and at four outreach sites. Administratively, the library is part of the College of Nursing, but has strong cooperative ties to the other WSU libraries and consortium schools. This library is 1 of 9 Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska) resource libraries of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Staffing: 2 library faculty and 4 classified staff, along with student part-time employees

Collection: Approximately 10,000 titles; 210 current journal subscriptions, and many databases including CINAHL, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, and elements of the 1990 census (on CD ROM).

Cooperative Academic Library Services (CALS)

CALS is the primary library jointly serving the WSU branch campus and the EWU downtown Spokane programs. This partnership was formally established in January, 1993. The collection largely support research and teaching in health policy administration, speech and hearing sciences, food sciences and human nutrition, pharmacy, and the Interdisciplinary Design Institute.

Staffing: 2 library faculty (1 funded by WSU, 1 funded by EWU), 3 WSU classified staff; .50 EWU classified staff; along with student part-time employees.

Collection: Approximately 12,000 titles; 300 journal subscriptions.

Veterinary Medical/Pharmacy Library (Pullman)

This library serves the research and teaching needs of the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine and the WSU College of Pharmacy, including the Pharmacology/Toxicology Program, the DVM and PharmD programs, and the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. It also serves as a regional resource for veterinarians, pharmacists, and local health professionals. It is 1 of 9 Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska) resource libraries of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Staffing: 2 library faculty, 2.55 classified staff, along with part-time student employees.

Collection: 65,000 titles; 600 journal subscriptions. Entire collection is health-related, emphasizing veterinary and comparative medicine, laboratory animal medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology, cancer research, toxicology, some clinical medicine and basic medical research titles.

Frances Penrose Owen Science and Engineering Library (Pullman)

The Owen Library supports the instruction and research needs of the Colleges of Sciences, Agriculture and Home Economics, and Engineering and Architecture. in addition, it serves the Pullman campus nursing program, basic medical sciences (WAMI year one students for WSU and University of Idaho), scientific aspects of psychology, speech and hearing sciences, sports medicine and physiology.

Staffing: 6.5 library faculty; 10 classified staff

Collection: Substantial collection including 2,000 journal subscriptions (126 of these are medically related titles).

E. 0 Holland/New Library

This library supports the instruction and research needs of the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Business and Economics.

Public services staffing: 19 library faculty; 25 staff

Collection: Over 1,000,000 volumes

Consortial agreements

Inland Northwest Health Science Libraries (INWHSL)