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PRMU Scientific Library

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About us

  • How to enroll in the library?
  • Information about departments
  • Library History
  • Rights and obligations of the reader

How do I enroll in the library?

The registration is carried out in the department of digital library services. You must have a passport and a campus card with you (if available).
Additionally:
  • when students are reinstated (after academic leave or expel) or transferred from another university – a certificate from the dean's office about admission to classes;
  • students of the Faculty of Additional Professional Education (FAPE) – a card for the member of a course.
To access the PRMU Digital Library, external users can sign up remotely by filling out an online form.

Address: Meditsinskaya str. 3a, office 5.
Phone: 422-13-33 (ext. 3803, 3807).
E-mail: lib@pimunn.net.
  • Delivery desk of scientific literature

  • Delivery desk for educational literature №1

  • Delivery desk for educational literature №2

  • Hall of Information Resources

  • Acquisition and Cataloging Department

  • Department of Scientific Information

  • Department of Electronic Resources

  • Reading Room with the delivery desk of fiction

About the Scientific Library of PRMU

The Scientific Library was founded on June 14, 1932. The primary collection was formed from publications of departments and books donated by the library of Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky and rich private collections of doctors of the city.
The first director was V.A. Druzhkina. A great contribution to the development of the library was made by highly qualified directors E.A. Chugunova, T.F. Kotova, N.G. Krayushkina. Since 2018, the library has been headed by Gayane Yurikovna Semina, who has a great work experience in this particular library: from librarian to director.
The library provides information support for the educational process and research activities of the University. The staff and students can use the Digital Library of PRMU, which includes full-text collections of the medical literature, including the foreign one. Virtual services are being introduced and they allow you to provide the necessary documents remotely and promptly.
Comfortable conditions have been created for servicing, holding mass events, and independent work of users. Unique multimedia presentations and reviews on the history of medicine are being developed, guided tours of the library collections are being conducted. Training sessions help to navigate the flow of professional information, to choose the best ways to work with it. The library is an open platform focused on the future of Russian medical science.
Over its long history, the Library has moved more than once, priorities in maintenance and staffing have changed. Only the employees remained unchanged. Like 90 years ago, these are intelligent and responsive women who are always ready to help their beloved readers!

Rights and obligations

The reader has the right:

to receive printed publications fr om the library collection for temporary use, as well as to have an access to digital publications of the University subscription resources using an individual login and password; to use the personal account of the PRMU digital library to clarify the literature taken and the terms of its return; to extend the period of use of printed documents if necessary and for good reasons; to get an advice in finding the necessary documents, as well as online by means of the virtual help service; to receive copies of documents using the digital document delivery service; to use documents, personal computers and office equipment in the reading room and the information resources hall.

The reader is obliged:

when visiting the Library, to present a campus card or a passport; to pass the re-registration annually presenting all the documents that the reader has; when leaving the University (academic leave, expel, dismissal, exit visa processing), to return to the Library the documents that the reader has and to sign the departure clearance; upon receipt of the documents, to examine them and, if any defects are found, to inform the library employee about it immediately (the reader who used them last is responsible for damaging the documents); not to confuse books with the books of other readers (the bar code of the book is unique, the reader is responsible for the books recorded in his personal account); to return the documents received from the library collection within the prescribed time limits (in case of the delay of the return period, to reimburse the amount of money to the library for using the document beyond the established time lim it in the amount determined by the price list; in case of loss or damage of the document, which led to the loss of its consumer properties, to replace it with an identical one or with a document recognized by the library as equivalent to the lost or damaged one; to use library equipment, furniture, computers, office equipment carefully. to keep public order, ethical standards of behavior and silence in the library premises (to turn off or switch the mobile phone to the silent mode).

It is strictly forbidden:

to use someone else's campus card;
to make notes, tear out or earmark pages in printed publications received from the library collection;
to spoil or tear off the bar code of the book;
to take out of the library premises the documents received from the collection of the reading room.

To help scientific work

  • Preparation of a dissertation and a list of references
  • Acceptance of dissertations
  • Scientific Citation Index

For early-career researchers embarking on dissertation work, a host of questions always arises concerning methodology, formatting rules, and defense procedures. However, obtaining clear answers to these questions is often not straightforward.

The recommended reading lists have been compiled by the bibliographers of the Scientific and Bibliographic Department to provide effective assistance to postgraduate (PhD) students and doctoral (ScD) candidates in formatting their scientific works, particularly dissertations.

In accordance with Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 842 dated September 24, 2013, "On the Procedure for Awarding Academic Degrees" (Part III, Clause 27) and "Regulations on the Internal Electronic Library System of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 'PIMU' of the Ministry of Health of Russia" No. 224 dated December 26, 2016 (Clause 4.3), degree applicants are required to submit the following final versions to the PIMU Research Library no later than 3 months before the defense date for a Doctor of Sciences (ScD) dissertation and no later than 2 months before the defense date for a Candidate of Sciences (PhD) dissertation:

  • The dissertation (hardbound, 1 copy).

  • The dissertation abstract (format A5, 1 copy).

  • Electronic copies of the dissertation and abstract in PDF format.

Submission Address: Nizhny Novgorod, Meditsinskaya St., 3A (Department of Scientific Information, Room 15).
Operating Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Monday-Friday, except the last Friday of each month).
Phone: +7 (831) 465-47-02, 422-13-33 ext. 3822 (Information Resources Hall).

For non-resident applicants: Printed copies of the dissertation and abstract must be submitted in person or via courier delivery service (to: 603104, Nizhny Novgorod, Meditsinskaya St. 3A, Research Library, Room 15). Prior contact is mandatory with the Head of the Department of Scientific Information, Elena Alexandrovna Lokteva, by phone: +7 (831) 422-13-33 ext. 3823.

Electronic copies (PDF) of the dissertation and abstract should be sent via email to: lib@pimunn.net (with the subject line: "To the Department of Scientific Information").

Upon submission and verification of all specified documents, the applicant will receive a confirmation certificate to be presented to the PIMU Dissertation Council.

A citation index is a universally accepted measure in the scientific world for assessing the significance of the work of a researcher or research team. It is also a bibliographic database that indexes references listed in the bibliographies of scientific publications and provides quantitative metrics based on these citations (such as total citation count, Hirsch index, etc.). The value of a citation index is determined by the number of citations a publication or an author receives in other sources.

The Hirsch index (h-index) is a scientometric indicator proposed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch from the University of California, San Diego. The h-index is a quantitative measure of a scientist's productivity and citation impact, based on the number of their publications and the citations those publications receive. The index is calculated based on the distribution of citations for a given researcher's work.
A scientist has an index *h* if *h* of their Np papers have at least *h* citations each, and the other (Np – h) papers have no more than *h* citations each.

The Impact Factor (IF) is a numerical indicator of a scientific journal's importance. It is calculated as the ratio of the number of citations in a given year to articles published in that journal during the two preceding years, to the total number of "citable items" (articles, reviews, etc.) published in that journal during the same two-year period. Thus, the Impact Factor measures the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited.

The Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) is a national information and analytical system that accumulates over 2 million publications by Russian authors, as well as information on citations of these publications from more than 3,000 Russian journals. It is designed not only to provide prompt access to current bibliographic information for scientific research but also serves as a powerful tool for evaluating the performance and effectiveness of research organizations, individual scientists, the quality of scientific journals, etc.
Access to RSCI is free via the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru.

On the global scientific information market, two major international citation indexes are represented:

  • Web of Science by Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics)

  • Scopus by Elsevier

Web of Science (http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl) – developed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, USA), owned by Thomson Reuters. It includes six thematic indexes. It provides researchers and specialists with information across all fields of knowledge from 8,700 authoritative scientific journals, 12,000 conference proceedings held annually, and over 4,400 websites.

Web of Science includes:

  • Science Citation Index Expanded (Natural Sciences database) – coverage from 1988 to present; covers natural sciences, indexes over 8,700 journals.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index – coverage from 1988 to present; covers social sciences, indexes over 3,200 journals.

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index – coverage from 1988 to present; indexes over 1,800 journals.

Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) – is the world's largest unified abstract and citation database, indexing over 25,000 titles of scientific, technical, and medical journals from approximately 7,000 international publishers. The daily updated Scopus database includes records dating back to the first volume, first issue of leading scientific publishers' journals.

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  • Contact phone numbers
Address:
Nizhny Novgorod, Meditsinskaya str. 3a
Delivery desk for educational literature No. 2 (servicing FIME students): Gagarin Ave.70 I

Call or Text Us:
Director: Semina Gayane Yurikovna, (831) 422-13-90, (831) 465-47-02, lib@pimunn.net
Delivery desk for educational literature No. 2 (servicing FIME students): tel. 465-06-53

Working hours:
Monday - Friday: 10.00-18.00
Saturday: subscription of educational literature No. 1 (BFC)
Sunday: day off.
Division Employee Telephone (code 8-831)
Director
Semina Gayana Yurikovna
422-13-90, 422-13-33, доб. 3800
Deputy Director for Information Technology
Bon Julia Vladimirovna
422-13-33 доб. 3803
Deputy Director for Library Work
Pylunina Irina Evgenievna
422-13-33 доб. 3808
Head of the Acquisition and Cataloging Department
Shishkina Julia Pavlovna
465-47-02, 422-13-33, доб. 3802
Head of the Scientific Information Department
Lokteva Elena Alexandrovna
422-13-33 доб. 3823
Заведующий сектором библиографического обучения
Druzhinina Anastasia Igorevna
422-13-33 доб. 3804
Head of the Scientific literature department
Ermolaeva Nadezhda Albertovna
422-13-33 доб. 3825
Head of the Department of Educational Literature
Bolotova Olga Vladimirovna
422-13-33 доб. 3805
Delivery desk of scientific literature (Meditsinskaya str., 3a)
422-13-33 доб. 3826
Delivery desk for educational literature №1 (Gagarin ave., 70)
422-13-33 доб. 3809
Delivery desk for educational literature №2 (Gagarin ave., 70)
422-13-33 доб. 3824
Hall of Information Resources
422-13-33 доб. 3822
Reading Room with the delivery desk of fiction
422-13-33 доб. 3806

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