Health Sciences Library Guides: Reading Room: Electronic & Other Resources

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This is the best place to begin searching for books, ebooks, and media in the WCM-Q Library collection. This is the same search as the one on the homepage.

Other Search Tools

Depending on what you are searching for, it may be appropriate to use one of the following resources.

WCMC Library (NY)

Cornell University Library (Ithaca, NY)

Collection Counts

As of May 2, 2023

Type	Count
Books (Print)	3,001
eBooks	138,738
Databases	419
eJournals	91,244
Websites	534
CD-ROMs	60
DVDs	68
Digital Videos	19,102
Mobile Apps	12
Slide Collections	207
Images Collections	2

Off Campus / Electronic Access

All of the eLibrary's electronic resources are available to WCM-Q users from any location - journals, books, databases and more! Whether you are studying or doing research from home, at the clinic, or anywhere with an Internet connection, the following steps will allow you to access all of these electronic resources:

Go to the Health Sciences Library website
Find the resource you want to access
Click on the link
At this point, you will be prompted to login for off-campus access (unless it is a freely available resource which anyone can access)
Enter your campus ID* and password

For help with research or any library-related questions, contact Ask-a-Librarian

*Your campus ID is the first part of your Cornell email address (e.g. abc1234). If you have any questions about your campus ID or password, please contact the IT Helpdesk at 4492-8711 or open a ticket here.

Education City Libraries

In accordance with the Education City (EC) library lending initiative, all of EC's schools and colleges have agreed to reciprocally loan material to each other's faculty, staff and students.

Health Sciences Library's procedures to borrow from another EC library:

All requests for items belonging to another EC library must be made through ILL
An email will be sent to you once the item has been received by the library and is available for pickup.
The borrower is responsible for returning the item or requesting a renewal to the Reading Room within the allotted time period.

Please call (974) 4492-8100 if you have any questions.

**PLEASE NOTE: the WCM-Q Health Sciences Library welcomes all guests to browse our collection.

Education City libraries:

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar library

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar library

Northwestern University Qatar

Qatar National Library

Texas A&M University at Qatar library

VCU School of the Arts in Qatar library