Library

About

The Central Library was established in 1989. It has an area of more than 2000 square meters including a reading hall for 200 persons, book repositories, reference books and dissertations section, computer rooms, seminar and office rooms. There are more than 19373 Persian books and about 8691 English books in different fields of basic and clinical medical sciences in the library at the moment and also 3127 dissertation titles, 516 research projects, more than 759 English and Persian audio-visual sources, and 1304 electronic books. The library provides the access to the platform of the most premier international publishers and citation databases for all members. In addition, there is a Document Delivery Service (DDS) to prepare the full text of scholarly articles for the members.

Using the library catalogue online searcher; Azarsa, the members can search all university's printed collections including books and dissertation in the central library and all university's affiliated libraries. The computer rooms and wireless connection in the library provide a convenient access to the internet for users. In addition, the library holds many workshops in different subjects for academic, non-academic staff and also the students by professional lecturers.

The Central Library has been registered in the National Library and Archives of I.R. IRAN with IR-LA00004200 Number.

Head of Research Center of Physiology

Dr. Marjan Moomeni

Ph.D in

Scopus

Google Scholar

Email: Email: mmomeni386@semums.ac.ir

Membership Regulations

All university students will become members of the Central Library by completing the membership application form and submitting a photograph to the Central Library office.

Students can use their student ID cards as their library membership cards
For guest students, library membership will be activated upon presentation of a temporary student ID cards.
The validity of a student’s library membership is the same as the validity of the student’s ID cards.
To renew library membership, students must present their renewed student ID card

Lending Regulations

Postgraduate students

The loan period for postgraduate students is a maximum of 30 days. Borrowed books may be renewal for up to 30 days. Provided they have not been reserved by another library member.
Postgraduate students can borrow a maximum of seven books at the same time.

Undergraduate students

Undergraduate students may borrow books for 21 days. Renewal is subject to no reservation by other library members.
The students may borrow up to seven books at a time.
The students are not allowed to hand over the borrowed books to others.
The students are required to borrow and return books in person using their student ID card.
Textbooks are not placed on reserved.
The loan period for textbooks may be shortened according to student’s needs.

Reference books (including Dictionaries and encyclopedias), dissertations and research projects are not available for loan.

Overdue Book Penalties:

If borrowed books are not returned by the due date, the following penalties will apply:

A fine of 5,000 rails per day will be charged for each day the book is overdue.
If the total overdue period reaches 100 days, the student membership will be suspended until all outstanding obligations have been settled with the Library.

Copyright and Licensing Restrictions

All SEMUMS users must comply with the copyright and licensing restrictions governing all electronic resources that are available through SEMUMS libraries and network.

Copyright Restrictions

No copyrighted work may be copied, published, disseminated, hosted, displayed, performed or played without the written permission of the copyright holder. All students, professors, and researchers at SEMUMS must observe the rules while using other people’s works. They should also be aware of their rights regarding their own work.

Copying Parts of a Course Book for Private Educational Use

Coping parts of e.g., a course book for private educational use is permitted, but coping the entire book or printing an e-book completely is almost always prohibited. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited.

Licensing Restrictions

Licensed electronic resources are restricted to SEMUMS members for purposes of research, teaching, and private study. Commercial use of these resources is prohibited in any case. Users may not be allowed to post content or items from the licensed materials to social networking sites, pass their access to any unauthorized user, use the licensed materials for commercial purposes, sale the licensed materials, systematically download electronic resources or reproduce, host or redistribute the licensed materials in bulk based on SEMUMS licenses for electronic resources access.

Therefore, the terms and conditions of the contracts between the SEMUMS Central Library and its suppliers must be strictly observed. SEMUMS Central Library may terminate and ban the network and resource access of those users whose behavior disturbs or violates the copyright and licensing requirements.

Necessary form

Document Delivery Form

Guideline for using Document Delivery Service

Library Registration Form

Required Platform

Library catalog (Azarsa)

Electronic-Resources

Virtual Tour

New Arrivals

Working Hours:

Office: Saturday -Wednesday, 07:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Study hall Saturday -Wednesday, 07:00 AM – 4:00 PM