Mission

The library specializes in Dermatology and Venereology and related biomedical sciences and is a scientific member of the Bibliosan network of Italian biomedical research institutions.
It offers the following services:

• Reference for finding materials, querying databases and accessing resources;
• Document Delivery request and retrieval of non-subscription scientific documentation via the NILDE portal or via email;
• ECM accredited training for healthcare professionals;
• Publication consultancy;
• Bibliometric searches through the PubMed database and the clinical decision support tool BMJ Best Practice and bibliometric analyzes with Web of Science, Scopus, JCR, Scimago, InCites and Scival.

In collaboration with the Scientific Direction, the Library Staff manages the scientific documentation for the Ministry of Health for the Research projects aimed at and for the yearly report of reasearch productivity (Research Workflow).

In addition the Library collaborates with the researchers in the initial phase of manuscript submission, provides support to researches with a continuous monitoring, manages the manuscripts information by giving bureaucratic-administrative and economic information. The staff invites researchers to deposit the raw-data linked to publications eligibility for the ministerial funding and guides the researchers to use a scientific integrity analysis service to avoid falsification and plagiarism.

The Library possesses and conserves ancient material, divided into the Archival Fund and the Historical Fund. 

The historical archive