Information for academics

This page focuses on subject information specific to academic staff, but also points to other useful pages.

Contacts and liaison

• The Subject Librarian for Veterinary Sciences is Emma Place. The Contacts section of the Library website details other contacts and enquiry points.
• The Library Representative for Veterinary Sciences is Dr Ross Harley.
• The Langford Veterinary Sciences Library Committee meets once a term.  Minutes of the meetings are displayed in the library.
• The Subject Contact and the Subject Librarian will be pleased to meet new academic staff and arrange a session on how the Library can help.

Subject resources

• Medical Library Collection Management Policy ( Word, 58 KB)
• Medical Library Collection Management Policy (PDF, 258 KB)
• Library Collection Management Policy
• Book purchase recommendations can be made using the Book Suggestion Form (UOB access only).
• New journal / database subscription requests can be made to the Subject Librarian or the Library Representative, though you will need to suggest how we might fund a new subscription.

• The collections page details useful veterinary science collections in the libraries, and advice on using other university libraries and the British Library.
• Veterinary science quick reference tools, databases, reviews and bibliographies, and Internet links pages are available.
• Information literacy: web tutorials

See our Library collections and eResources pages for details of our more general resources & collections, including electronic journals, electronic books and databases.

Inter-library loan vouchers

• If you need an item which is not available anywhere in the library system here in print or online, you can use the Inter-library loans Service to obtain it from another library. There is a charge for this service, though you should be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this from Jennie Roberts, in the Churchill Building.

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