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Peter W. Addiego
Health Sciences Library


The Peter W. Addiego Health Sciences Library supports the patient care, biomedical research and graduate medical education information needs of the medical staff, faculty and affiliated students of Nassau University Medical Center and the Nassau Health Care Corporation. We serve the larger Long Island community as an information resource for professionals in all aspects of health care delivery.

The Health Sciences Library is one of the largest on Long Island. The print collection covers every discipline of the health care field and consists of approximately 10,000 monographs and 24,000 bound periodicals of over 1,000 journal titles. A large collection of audio and video tapes and CD-ROM's is available and can be accessed on-site. Specialized collections are housed in the Pathology and Radiology Departments. Specific journal articles and books which are not available on-site can usually be obtained through the interlibrary loan system of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.


The library provides access to many electronic resources. MEDLINE and other medical data bases are available from the National Library of Medicine. UpToDate provides peer-reviewed clinical information. Infotrac's Health Reference Center, with many full-text articles, is also available online. In addition, staff can access the Internet from computers in the library and at workstations throughout the Medical Center. Hundreds of subscription journal titles are now available full-text through Ebsco Online, MDConsult and Ovid. Unicorn, our integrated library system, allows library users to search our catalog electronically through WebCat. Library staff members provide user education on these systems.

The Health Sciences Library is an attractive and comfortable setting for literature research and study. The library is open Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. until 8:50 p.m., and is located on the first floor of the Dynamic Care Building at the east end of the garden courtyard.