We are located in the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) at 750 Highland Avenue, Madison WI 53705, adjacent to the UW Hospital and WIMR.
See hours, map, direction, parking at
The library itself houses computer workstations (72 dual boot iMacsfor patrons with Net IDs and 17 public Windowsworkstations), laser printers, and free scanners. The library also circulates 50 dual boot MacBookAirs(3-day period) for the UW community. Be aware that laptop users must present a valid UW ID + a second photo ID. We also have digital camcorders, cameras, audio recorders, projectors and several adapters!
The library also includes a conference roomand several reservable study rooms.
More on our equipment and study roomsat
E-Resources
Services
Contact Us / Ebling Library offers access to health sciences resources including 3,600 e-journals, 4,000
e-books and 126 databases. Our collection of databases includes:
Access to our electronic resources is available to all from any computer on the UW network or UW wireless system. Patrons withactive UWNet IDscan access our electronicresources from anywhere in the world. At your fingertips are nearly all of the e-resources available across the UW-Madison campus.
To get access from a non-UW computer network location, just go to our website at
If you try to access a restricted resource, you will be asked to enter your Net ID and password.
Haven’t activated your Net ID yet? You can at:
You will need the 11-digit number on your UW ID(11th digit is the issue code). To obtain your UW ID card, contact the Photo ID Office at room 149, Union South at 608.262.3258. For more info, see or email
Reference Services
Each year our team of expert librarians answer 2,500 reference questions, performs over 300 literature searches.
Our expert staff can save you time and effort. We answer quick reference questions such as verifying a citation or finding a statistic or work with you on in-depth questions when researching a health concern, preparing a grant proposal or journal publication. We can find a few key articles on a topic or pull together an exhaustive list of relevant article for a meta-analysis or systematic review.
Instruction Services
Each year our team of expert librarians conduct over 200 instructional sessions. These sessions cover several topics of interest to our clientele including:
- Finding the best evidence in your discipline
- Power searching in specific databases (PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, etc.)
- Keeping up to date with the literature using database tools or apps
- Data management
- Public access compliance
- Citation/pdf management using a citation manager. Citation managers we support:
We are happy to meet with you individually or with groups via remote technology or in person here in the library or any where else more convenient for you.
Document Delivery Services
Article and Book Delivery Service allows you to request and obtain:
Articles from journals held in UW-Madison libraries and other institutions via pdf.
Books from other institutions delivered to the library of your choice.
For more info, see
Borrowing books and other media from another UW campus
Within the Library Catalog, you may request a book or video owned by another UW campus
and have it delivered to any UW-Madison library. For more info UW System Borrowing, see
Book delivery to addresses outside of Dane County
If your home or office lies outside of Dane County, you can get books sent to you from UW-
Madison Libraries. See the Distance Library Service website at
Our liaison librarians are at your service. See our web page at
Our contact info:
- 608.262.2020
- (General Reference email)
- (Live Chat)