The UNC Health Sciences Library is a six-story building within easy walking access to faculty in Health Affairs. The library has been recently renovated, with a design that encourages collaboration among the disciplines of health sciences. The library's collection includes 311,080 print titles, 3527 print periodicals (with 355 electronic full text serial titles available), 1713 full text electronic periodicals, 92 electronic monograph titles, and 1814 audiovisual programs. The University of North Carolina Literature Exchange (UNCLE), a locally mounted, networked, web-based version of MEDLINE, the major bibliographic database in the biomedical sciences and clinical medicine, is available free of charge to all members of the University health affairs community and is easily accessible from any location on or off campus. In addition, the HSL has an online system that provides information about material available at the other area institutions of higher learning. Information about other resources and databases can be obtained at the library's Internet Desk, which is staffed on a full-time basis by technical experts. The HSL is also a participant in faculty and student education related to the retrieval of electronic information and use of specific computer applications software.
Many core or shared facilities are available as services at UNC-Chapel Hill. These may be of course be used in training, including major equipment not normally found in individual laboratories. The Office of Sponsored Research at UNC maintains a detailed list of available core facilities.
Some of the current core facilities include:
- Mouse Models of Genetic Disease
- Animal Models of Human Tumors
- Cell and Molecular Physiology
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Biology
- UNC Neuroscience Center
The University of North Carolina Health Care System The UNC main hospital opened in September 1952 under the name North Carolina Memorial Hospital. In May 1989, the N.C. General Assembly created the University of North Carolina Hospitals entity as a unifying organization to govern constituent hospitals, which include North Carolina Memorial Hospital, North Carolina Clinical Cancer Center, North Carolina Neurosciences Hospital, North Carolina Women's Hospital, and North Carolina Children's Hospital. As North Carolina's only state-owned acute care facility, UNC Hospitals has trained nearly a quarter of the state's practicing physicians and continues to serve as the primary referral center for each of the 100 counties in the state. The missions of the UNC Health Care System include education, research, and patient care.
