Library Services

Who can apply?

  • UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences clinical/community faculty including fieldwork educators or clinical educators for Med Ed, O.T., P.T., P.A., or M.L.S. programs
  • College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines adjunct faculty
  • Human Nutrition Research Center staff and researchers
  • UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences residents and fellows
  • Altru residents
  • INBRE researchers

Please allow up to three days for processing of your application; applications subject to approval.

If Library Resources does not have access to a book or article that you need, you may request it through interlibrary loan (ILL). ILL is a free service is for faculty, staff, and students in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences and College of Nursing.

Login to Interlibrary Loan

If you experience issues with ILL functions, please contact the Interlibrary Loan department.

701.777.2606
allison.ranisate@UND.edu

Course reserves are books, audiovisuals, etc. set aside from the library collection or on loan from a personal collection per faculty request. Search for course information (i.e. "Biology" or "521"), instructor information ("smith" or "john"), or book information ("physical therapy" or "theory") to locate materials for your class.

Instructor Course Reserve Form

Professional Collaborations

Librarians provide instruction sessions that are designed to help bridge the gap between classes and the library's information resources. Working in collaboration with classroom faculty, librarians provide course-related library instruction on request. Contact your subject librarian to talk about appropriate content and activities and to schedule an instruction session.

Your subject librarian is also happy to collaborate with you on assignment design. If you are creating an assignment or activity that involves the use of library tools, consider running your plans past a librarian. A librarian can do everything from assure you that access to a particular tool will work for all of your students to work with you to craft a plan that utilizes the most appropriate tools and incorporates important strategies for use.

When should you request a literature search?

When you need to be comprehensive. A librarian can help you take your search beyond PubMed. There are many databases available and a librarian can help you decide which of these may provide appropriate information on your topic.

Any time you want help... If you are a clinician searching for patient care information, a faculty member preparing a conference presentation, or resident beginning a research study, a librarian will be happy to work with you. Librarians are experienced in structuring search strategies and understand how to leverage powerful interfaces.

How can you request a search?

Institutional Repositories (IRs) bring together all of a University's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. The UND Scholarly Commons is a great place to store your work and make it available to a global audience. The IR is an excellent vehicle for working papers, grey literature, conference papers and presentations, senior theses, and other scholarly work that doesn’t quite fit into traditional publishing workflows.

If you have materials that you would like to publish in the Scholarly Commons, contact your subject librarian or the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Chester Fritz Library. To learn more about Institutional Repositories, please visit the Digital Commons Resources page.

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are course materials that are free of cost and free of traditional copyright constraints. OERs can come in many formats - textbooks, articles, online modules, videos, etc. They are often licensed under Creative Commons, which allows for the re-use and adaptation of creative works. Learn more...

North Dakota is one of five states that have legislated funding for the development of OERs. Additionally, UND offers grants to instructors to adopt an OER in their course. UND is currently in the fourth year of its OER grant program and has saved students an estimated $6.1 million in textbook expenses! Please speak with your subject librarian if you are curious about OERS!

Librarians can answer questions about:

  • The quality of OERS
  • How to find an OER in your field
  • How to make your own OER

If you do decide to adopt an OER for your course, librarians and instructional designers from Teaching Transformation & Development Academy (TTaDA) can help you through the process.

Several research databases provided by Library Resources offer CME credits at no additional charge. Learn more about these resources and get instructions for earning credits on this research guide.

The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences is an institutional member of BioMed Central (BMC). This partnership is funded by North Dakota IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) through the generosity of Dr. Don Sens, ND INBRE Principal Investigator.

More about BMC

How does the membership work?

  • Identify an appropriate journal or use the Springer Journal Suggester to locate a relevant title for your manuscript.
  • Submit your manuscript.
  • Your manuscript will go through the peer-review process.
  • Following acceptance, utilize the UND institutional membership to reduce or eliminate the  article-processing charge.
  • Papers are published immediately and available to readers without restriction.