The Library is at the service of research and teaching in the area of Medical Sciences, managing and disseminating bibliographic information using the most up-to-date techniques.
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By car: The Medical Library "Vincenzo Pinali" is located within the hospital area, you can reach us from via Giustiniani 2. Please note that car access inside the area is strictly regulated.
By bus: from the train and bus station you can take bus lines 6, 14 and 24, and stop at the hospital. Please note that also lines 15 and 24 reach the hospital area, even not from the railway station. Follow the signals to West Area and Radiotherapy: the Library overlooks the car park in front of the Radiotherapy Unit.
On foot: Entering from Via Giustiniani 2, follow the signals for West Area and Radiotherapy: the Library is on the left and overlooks the car park. If you come from downtown, please notice that another pedestrian entrance is available from the gate in via Vincenzo Gallucci 13. You'll find the Library on your left over the parking area.
If you are inside the Hospital of Padua, you can consult the specific map to better orient yourself and reach us; we are in the purple area (Area D), under the D4.
Bibliographic database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine. It contains more than 37 million records and also indexes journals in biological sciences, veterinary medicine, and dentistry.
SSOBiomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V. Contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexes derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is particularly important for its coverage of pharmaceutical, pharmacology and toxicology research.
SSO Auth-proxyFull-text database for sport medicine literature. It includes 665 journals indexed with abstracts and 148 international Open Access journals with full text.
Auth-proxyEvidence-based clinical information platform, provides answers to questions that may arise during daily clinical practice.
SSOFull-text database for nursing and health professions. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes mini lessons, evidence-based care sheets, educational modules for continuous learning, and research tools. It features a thesaurus that allows for effective searching and information retrieval, following the structure of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the National Library of Medicine.
Auth-proxyMultidisciplinary bibliographic database. It indexes Journals, Books, Conference proceedings and patents.
SSO Auth-proxyBibliographic research platform that includes several international and regional databases, designed to support scientific and academic research; it indexes more than 34,000 journals, as well as books, proceedings, patents, and datasets.
Auth-proxyPortal containing over 18,000 peer-reviewed videos of laboratory methods and scientific concepts indexed in PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, ChemAbstracts, SciFinder, Scopus, and AGRICOLA
SSO Auth-proxyPhysiotherapy evidence database offers all physiotherapists easy access to high-quality research. Over 53,000 randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and guidelines relevant to physiotherapy are described.
Database containing information related to bibliometric indices of scientific journals included in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
SSO Auth-proxyThe collection includes 800 images of historical and ancient documents from the libraries of the School of Medicine at the University of Padua. The collection includes 800 images of historical and ancient documents from the libraries of the School of Medicine at the University of Padua.
his archive of images relates to the material marks left over the centuries by various owners on the books that are now part of the library's collection. The library was established in 1875 with the funds donated by the clinician Vincenzo Pinali (1802–1875).