Services for Alumni

The primary mission of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine is to train primary care physicians to work in South Carolina. The library supports this mission by providing extensive services to both current and former students. 

Borrowing Privileges

School of Medicine Alumni can retain their circulation privileges as long as they are employed within the state of South Carolina as a medical professional. To obtain more information please email us at asklib@uscmed.sc.edu.

Reference Services

Information requests are accepted by email via Ask a Librarian, by chat, or by telephone at (803) 216-3200. They should come directly from the person requesting the service whenever possible. Experience has proven that direct communication between the requestor and the librarian gives the most efficient and satisfactory results.

Information services offered include those in the following categories:

  • Answers to factual questions where no interpretation of information is required.
  • Assistance in accessing electronic journals and textbooks.
  • Instruction in the use of health sciences indexes, abstracting services, and bibliographies.
  • Assistance in verification of citations for bibliographies and for interlibrary loan requests.
  • Orientation tours for individuals and groups; class presentations.
  • Computerized bibliographic search services.
  • Instruction in use of databases and various software programs.

Computerized Bibliographic Search Service

The School of Medicine Library will provide bibliographic searches in the numerous databases to which it has access, with the primary ones being MEDLINE, Web of Science (Science Citation Index), and PsycINFO.

NOTE: Mediated searches performed by a librarian on MEDLINE and other databases on our network are provided to School of Medicine alumni at the cost of $25 per search.

Databases

Carolina Alumni Association members have access to online research databases through a partnership between the Carolina Alumni Association and the University Libraries.