Academic Library Services
The Mercy Health – Regional Library Services is the primary provider of knowledge based information services and online resources for the Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center residency programs and Mercy Health hospitals of Northwest Ohio.
About the Libraries
Erin Baker, MLIS
BSMH Regional Library Services is located in St. Vincent Hospital, and also provides access electronically utilizing OpenAthens. The library provides state-of-the-art, knowledge-based medical information in an array of formats. The library offers access to computers and aims to provide a warm, inviting place for quiet study and reading or preparing for lectures, presentations, and tests. The library is accessible to residents 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Experienced library staff is available Monday through Friday.
Electronic and print collection
You will have access to thousands of medical journal titles and textbooks, both electronically and in print. BSMH Regional Library Services also has an excellent interlibrary loan service for obtaining additional texts and journal articles. Electronic access is offered to some of the best and most competitive medical databases and resources, such as Up-To-Date, Clinical Key and Clinical Pharmacology, Access Medicine and Surgery, JAMA, R2 Digital Books, STAT!Ref, New England Journal of Medicine, and StatDX as well as additional resources which provides resident physicians immediate access to the most up to date medical research and point-of-care needs from any web browser. Open Athens extends our reach allowing physicians to utilize the single sign-on feature for at home access to all our Virtual Library resources.
Library Staff
BSMH Regional Library Services provide dedicated library staff that support resident literature and research needs. Library staff are available for article requests, literature and IRB searches, as well as publication assistance. We encourage residents to come in to browse scholarly journals, request references, or check out books.