The IRCCS San Raffaele library operates in support of clinical and scientific activities and specializes in scientific documentation of biomedical-health fields.

The library participates in resource sharing consortia such as the Organization of Scientific Libraries promoted by the Ministry of Health (Bibliosan), the National Periodicals Catalogue (ACNP) and online Document Delivery systems such as the NILDE circuit.

The library cooperates, making its resources available, with other libraries under agreements for reciprocity and free services.

Library services include:

• Finding articles published in journals not available locally,
• bibliographic advice for the purpose of optimizing the search for materials (in catalogs, databases, electronic journals, websites, etc.),
• Reproduction of print and electronic materials in the library.

Through the library, some of the most important journals in the medical/health field and others specific to the rehabilitation field are available for reference and access. The library provides consultation and access to about 7,000 electronic scientific periodicals:

• ELSEVIER ScienceDirect
• JAMA and the Archives Journals
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• British Medical Journal
• BMJ Journals online
• COMPLETE CINAHL
• Blackwell – Wiley
• Sage
• ASM: American Society of Microbiology
• Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
• Oxford University press
• Nature
• Taylor & Francis
• The Scientific Thought Editor

Users may stay in the library to consult printed and/or electronic manuals and periodicals, conduct bibliographic research, query databases, and, more generally, take advantage of all other services provided by the library.

The library provides its users with tools and resources such as “traditional” databases for bibliographic reference retrieval, image databases, and services that work to support scientific evaluation and clinical decision-making:

• PubMed via Bibliosan (Through this interface it is possible to query PubMed and link with the system for fulltext retrieval of scientific articles set up by BIBLIOSAN. After performing a literature search in PubMed and coming to the page with the data for the article of interest, a “FIND FULL TEXT by BIBLIOSAN” button appears. A Click on this button allows you to retrieve the full text of the article of interest (when access rights allow)

• Proquest Databases (Coronavirus Research Database; Biological Science Database; British Nursing Database; Health Research Premium collection; PIVOT – “Connecting funding and Research Expertise”)
• Essential Science Indicators
• InCites Benchmarking & Analytics
• Scopus
• Journal Citation Reports (impact factors from 1997 to the present of journals surveyed by both the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index are available)
• Web of Science (the following databases are searchable, with coverage over the past 20 years: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index).
• BMJ BESTPRACTICE and MARTINDALE.
• Cochrane Library
• EMBASE: Europe’s largest database of scientific bibliography addressed to pharmacology and medical sciences in general.
• Faculty Opinions (formerly Faculty 1000 until 2019): Bibliographic database where leading biomedical experts help scientists discover, discuss, and publish research
• BROWZINE: how to see in a single interface the list of journals subscribed centrally by BIBLIOSAN, also grouped by disciplines and subdisciplines. Each user can customize his or her Browzine to display only the journals that interest him or her, save articles to read in a personal area as well as receive alerts via e-mail (or via app) about new articles published there.
• IO: Retrieve full text of scientific article by DOI or PMID

Also available are:

• More than 1,000 print volumes from the clinical, rehabilitation and research fields
• Tools for electronic bibliographic citation management (RefWorks, EndNote Web, Sciwheel)

Resources can be accessed remotely, either within the company’s network computers or from home with prior authorization.

Are you outside San Raffaele SpA facilities and already registered for the Bibliosan service?

http://www.bibliosan.it/frame_accesso_remoto3.html

Are you located outside San Raffale S.p.A. facilities and have not yet registered for the Bibliosan service?

https://bibliosan.cbim.it/request_account/

Having trouble retrieving login or registration credentials? Contact + 39 06 5225 3795 or send an e-mail to:

biblioteca.pisana@sanraffaele.it

The IRCCS San Raffaele Library allows consultation of periodicals in print format and access to online information from remote locations

The Library offers a range of services to both other libraries and external users, which are exemplified in the free mutual exchange of documentation.

Services to other libraries

The library provides copies of articles from its periodicals to outside libraries whose holdings can be consulted through any of the major national catalogs such as ACNP, MAI, SBN.

ACNP: http://acnp.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/cnr/fp.html

NEVER: http://www.aib.it/aib/opac/mai2.htm3

SBN: http://www.sbn.it/opacsbn/opac/iccu/free.jsp

In contrast, the library’s holdings made available for the purpose of reciprocal and free exchange are included in both the National Periodicals Catalogue (ACNP)

Services to external users

To expand its reach, in addition to interlibrary exchange, St. Raphael’s library also has a reference service by external users. External users can submit the request through their reference library.

How to request an article

Articles not available in full-text among the subscriptions can be requested from the library in the following ways:

• Use the NILDE form (for libraries registered in NILDE).
• Send e-mail containing bibliographic references of articles to biblioteca.pisana@sanraffaele.it