Available Hours
- Weekdays : 09:00 ~ 18:00 / Saturdays : 09:00 ~ 13:00
- Closed : Sundays/Holidays , University anniversary
- Address : 680, Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu (41944) / Medical Branch 1F, School of Medicine , Kyungpook National University
- Contact Information : Medical Library ☎ 053-950-6530/ 053-200-4916
Regulations
- All regulations, such as loan procedures, extensions, and handling of overdue books, are the same as those of the Central Library.
History
Originally established as the Medical University Library in 1952, the Medical Branch was renamed as the Medical Branch in September 1966 to offer full-scale academic support. The Medical Branch is located on the first floor of the Kyungpook National University College of Medicine building in Dongin-dong, Jung-gu, Daegu City. It has more than 85,000 domestic and foreign books, reference materials, serials, and dissertations in medicine and related fields, and provides useful materials for research and learning by professors, students, and staff at medical and nursing colleges.
- 1952. 10.
Opened the Medical University Library
- 1966. 09.
Old Medical University Library renamed and established as the Medical Branch
- 1995. 01.
Medical Branch separated from the hospital library
- 1995. 08.
Medical Branch converted to an open stack system
- 1996. 02.
Introduced the KUDOS system (library academic information system)
- 2000. 04.
Renovation
- 2005. 04.
Separated into the medical branch and dental branch
- 2012. 03.
Medical branch remodeling and Opened the Hangok room
Collections
| Classification | Domestic | Overseas | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | 11,285 | 9,501 | 20,786 |
| Reference materials | 1,286 | 431 | 1,717 |
| Serials | 5,223 | 36,877 | 42,100 |
| Dissertations | 12,856 | 1,554 | 14,410 |
| Archived materials | 882 | 1,645 | 2,527 |
| Etc. (CD, Designated data) | 190 | 362 | 552 |
| Total | 31,722 | 50,370 | 82,092 |
Academic DB
| No. | Title(DB) | Subject | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ACS | chemistry | 51 American Chemical Society journals |
| 2 | AMA | medicine | 10 medical journals |
| 3 | Annual Reviews | biomedical | 22 journal reviews of Biomedical Science |
| 4 | BMJ | medicine | Access BMJ online |
| 5 | BMJ Journal Collection | medicine | 24 medical journals |
| 6 | CINAHLwithFullText | nursing, health sciences | Provides original texts from 1,054 journals in nursing and health sciences |
| 7 | Cell Press | biology, medicine, agriculture | 10 journals about Cell (1995-present) |
| 8 | Clinical Key | medicine | Access to more than 1,100 medical texts, more than 600 journals, more than 2,500 surgical videos, and Medline |
| 9 | EBSCOhost | Full academic range | 5,975 journals of humanities, social science and applied science |
| 10 | Endnote | Thesis writing and bibliography management program | Online bibliography management |
| 11 | HighWire | biology, medicine, physics, social science | Access to free journals provided by the Stanford University Library |
| 12 | JCR(Journal Citation Reports) Science Edition | citation information DB | Access to more than 5,750 journals in science and technology fields |
| 13 | JSTOR | Full academic range | 672 journals in all subject areas |
| 14 | Karger | medicine | Access to more than 100 medical journals provided by the Karger Publishing House |
| 15 | LWW | medicine, nursing, health science | 130 journals about medicine, nursing and health science |
| 16 | MICROMEDEX | 약학 | Access to drug information that is approved, marketed, and researched around the world |
| 17 | Nature | natural science | 14 journals published by Nature |
| 18 | Nature Asia | natural science | Access to Nature Highlights (Korean version), papers presented by Asian researchers |
| 19 | NEJM | medicine | Online access to the New England Journal of Medicine |
| 20 | OUPCoreCollection | Full academic range | 200 Oxford University Press journals |
| 21 | PML | medicine | Access to more than 3,30 original texts and indexed abstracts in the medical field |
| 22 | PubMed | Medicine, biochemistry, biotechnology | Access to free journals from the National Library of Medicine |
| 23 | RefWorks | Thesis writing and bibliography management program | Online bibliography management |
| 24 | RSC | chemistry | 38 Royal Society of Chemistry journals |
| 25 | SagePublications | medicine, economy, management and social science | Access to original texts from 646 journals provided by the Sage Publishing House |
| 26 | Science | natural science | Access to the weekly magazine Science published by AAAS (1880~present) |
| 27 | ScienceDirect | Full academic range | Access to original texts of 2,081 types of journals (1995~present) before publication by Elsevier Publishing House |
| 28 | SciFinder | natural science | Provides previous literature and patent information in all fields of science |
| 29 | Scopus | citation information DB | Access to the world's largest abstract citation database provided by Elsevier Access to more than 21,000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine, and social sciences, and provides the latest academic literature information and citation analysis |
| 30 | SpringerArchive | natural science, engineering, economics, field of law | Access to original texts from 1,614 journals(~2014) provided by the SpringerArchive |
| 31 | Taylor & Francis | Full academic range | 1,413 Taylor & Francis journals |
| 32 | UpToDate | medicine | Access to evidence-based medicine(EBM) specialized information service |
| 33 | Web of Science | citation information DB | SCI(Science Citation Index), SSCI(Social Science Citation Index), AHCI(Arts & Humanities Citation Index) |
| 34 | Wiley Online Library | Full academic range | Access to original texts from 1,206 journals provided by the Wiley Online Library |