Billings Clinic Medical Library

Billings Clinic Medical Library provides resources and services to support patient care, clinical decision making, education, and research. Resources like ClinicalKey, UpToDate, and JAMA provide opportunities for free CME. Tools are available to create customized patient education materials on many topics in multiple languages.

Key library services, listed below, have a turn-around time of 24-48 hours. Urgent patient care requests are handled immediately within staffed hours (Monday - Friday, 8 am to 4 pm).

• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan: Electronic documents are delivered directly to your email. The library will borrow or purchase articles not owned through interlibrary loan.
• Literature Searches: Request literature search assistance for specific topics or clinical questions, and the librarian will search library databases and online for relevant articles.
• Table of Contents (TOC) Service: Receive email updates from peer-reviewed journals and access relevant articles or request full text.
• Topic Alert Searches: Request regular email updates on new research in your specialty or field of interest.
• Training in Database Searching: One-on-one or group training sessions on how to use library databases, available in person or virtually.

Where are we located?

The Library is located in the Annex Basement West where PCs, printers, and fax are available for employee use.

Online access is available

The Library collections are entirely online. Only employed Medical staff and Billings Clinic employees can access library databases, journals, books, and point of care tools at any time on a networked computer.