Frequently Asked Questions:
UBC Library resources and UBC Affiliated Teaching Hospitals (ATHs)

 
 

Important Links

  1. Online resources licensed for Hospital Staff
  2. eHLbc Electronic Health Library of BC
    *Connect from hospital intranet to EBSCO or OVID databases
  3. Unrestricted resources
  4. Remote access for UBC students, staff & faculty:
 

  1. Do I have access to the UBC Library's Online Resources Licensed for Hospital Staff at my location?
   
Hospital staff at UBC's three affiliated teaching hospitals (ATHs) can access several Online Resources Licensed for Hospital Staff. Participating ATH sites include: If you cannot access one of the resources, or for remote access, please check with your local hospital contact.

  2. How can I get a hospital library card?
   
If you are employed by and work on site at BC Children's Hospital, BC Women's Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital, or UBC Hospital, you can apply for a hospital library card at one of the three hospital libraries: Biomedical Branch Library, Hamber Library, St. Paul's Library, and at the Woodward Library. Please check at the hospital websites for more information on using your local hospital library. If you want to take a library skills workshop, register online, space permitting.

  3. What library services (eg. borrowing, document delivery, interlibrary loans) are available with a hospital library card?
 

 

With a valid hospital library card, you can sign out books and order articles NOT held at your closest hospital library in print, or online.

Please be aware that you cannot connect to the restricted UBC Library licensed databases from home with a hospital library card (UBC faculty, staff or student cards are required to access from home). However, most of these databases are licensed for users in the library.

For a full discussion on ordering articles using the UBC Library Document Delivery Service, please see the handout Guide to UBC Library Document Delivery Service .

After you search for journals using the UBC Library Catalogue and on our Ejournals list, you can proceed with an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for items not held at one of the UBC Libraries. With your hospital library card, please submit your requests for articles NOT held at UBC Library using the online Life Sciences Libraries Interlibrary Loan Request Forms or find the article citation in PubMed and place an order via UBC eLink UBCeLink ILL request form.

Please call your local hospital library if you need assistance.

  4. I work with someone who has a UBC library card. Can I use it to access resources online?
   
If you work with someone with a UBC Library faculty card (e.g. research assistant or collaborator), you can also apply for a "Faculty authorization card." Please complete the form and take to your local hospital library, with photo identification.

Once you have a UBC Library card, you can access resources by using EZProxy/myVPN.
 
 
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