Welcome from the Director
Gabe Rios
Director of Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Whether you are new to IU School of Medicine, or have been here a while… I’d like to extend a warm welcome on behalf of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library staff.
Our goal is make your time here fulfilling, productive, and successful and to provide all of our IU Medical School community ease in accessing our resources. We have a comprehensive collection of medical databases, books and journals to support your education, teaching, patient care, and research goals. Most importantly, while the library’s physical location is in Indianapolis, we have a librarian faculty member assigned to each campus, department, and scholarly concentration. Your Medical Librarian is your guide to our excellent research services and information resources.
We provide a wide range of services including:
- A comprehensive collection of databases, books and journals
- Request articles and books (at no cost per request) via interlibrary loans and document delivery
- Assistance with literature searches for grant proposals, publications, presentations, research, or educational program development
- Support for NIH Public Access compliance and creating NIH Biosketches
- Consultations for conducting systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis
- Information on scholarly communication, including information on publishing and scholarly impact
- Open workshops, customized classes (live streamed online and in-person)
- Tutorials and Help Sheets for online databases
- Customized research guides
- Assistance locating resources in our History of Medicine Collection, on the history of medical education and guidance on conducting research using primary sources
- Exposure to relevant emerging technologies including 3d printing and virtual reality in our Makerspace
- Help managing scholarly profiles through creating an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD ID)
- Support for using the electronic lab notebook (ELN) system LabArchives and developing Data Management Plans (DMPs)