The Library of Science and Medicine (LSM) houses the primary print research collections for the following disciplines: behavioral science, biological science, earth and geological science, engineering, medical science, pharmaceutical science. Research collections serving other disciplines such as agricultural biotechnology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics are held in separate branch libraries. LSM also serves as a depository library for government documents dealing with science, contains a U.S. patent collection and patent search facility, and maintains a large map collection. In 2001 LSM owned over 259,000 monographs, 210,600 bound periodical volumes, approximately 478,000 government documents, 792,000 microform items, thousands of maps, and held subscriptions to over 2600 serials. Thousands of science journals are also accessible online at LSM (and university-wide), and the number continues to grow. Online journal resources in the sciences include major publisher packages such as ScienceDirect, the American Chemical Society journal collection, the American Physical Society collection, the BioOne collection, and many others. Literature searching across the full spectrum of the sciences is supported by access to dozens of databases including Biosis Previews for the life sciences, GeoRef for earth science and geology, IEEE Xplore for engineering, INSPEC for physics, Medline for medicine, PsycInfo for behavioral science, SciFinder Scholar for chemistry, Web of Science for interdisciplinary studies, and numerous others.

Howard Dess