The NIH Library provides the HHS Digital Library to give HHS staff at participating agencies access to thousands of research resources, expert librarians, and training — all in one place.
To access the HHS Digital Library, staff must log in with an HHS PIV card.
Participating Agencies
ACF, ACL, AHRQ, ASPR, HRSA, IHS, IOS, PSC/FOH, and SAMHSA, as well as the following OS offices: ASPE, OASH, OCR, OGA, OGC, OIG, and OMHA.
Personalized Research Support from Your Agency's Librarian
Each participating agency has a dedicated Biomedical Librarian who can help with:
- In-depth literature searches and summarized, filtered reports of findings
- Large-scale bibliographic database searches (e.g., for systematic reviews, consensus development, or evidence-based intervention reviews)
- Literature review support for grants and policy analyses
- Current awareness services — saved searches and alerts to automatically deliver new research on topics relevant to your work
- Answering simple or complex reference questions
- Editing and publication support for manuscripts and reports
- Special projects (e.g., subject-based webpages, journal supplements, writing guidance documents)
- Training on library resources
Contact your agency's librarian to get started. Find your agency's librarian here.
Resources Available Through the HHS Digital Library
Journals
Over 10,000 online journals spanning biomedical, clinical, public health, health services research, health economics, and social and behavioral sciences — including JAMA, NEJM, Lancet, Nature, Science, Health Affairs, Harvard Business Review, and many more.
eBooks
Over 90,000 eBooks across biomedical, clinical, public health, social, behavioral, and computer science disciplines.
Reference Databases
Over 20 databases offering comprehensive coverage across healthcare and related fields. Highlights include:
- AccessMedicine – 100 core medical textbooks plus drug database
- AccessPharmacy – core pharmaceutical texts plus a drug and supplements database
- Business Source Premier – business literature including marketing, management, finance, and economics, with full-text access to the Harvard Business Review
- Cochrane Library – evidence-based healthcare and health promotion intervention reviews
- Embase – comprehensive biomedical literature database with 46M+ abstracts from 8,500+ journals, including a complete copy of MEDLINE plus 2,900 additional titles
- MediRegs Compliance Suite – federal and state regulatory information for healthcare and life sciences
- ProQuest US Major Dailies – same-day access to the Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post
- Scopus – peer-reviewed literature across social sciences, economics, and biomedical sciences, covering 28,000+ journals
- Web of Science – multidisciplinary coverage across 22,000 high-impact science journals, conference proceedings, and books
EndNote
Enterprise-wide access to both the desktop and web editions of EndNote — a widely used tool for managing citations, bibliographies, and references for papers and research projects.
Training & Instructional Support
Online and one-on-one training is available to help staff make the most of library resources. Topics include:
- Introduction to the HHS Digital Library
- PubMed basic and advanced searching
- EndNote for managing citations and creating bibliographies
- Literature reviews (9-part series covering multiple review types)
- Writing and publishing (3-part series)
- Statistics and epidemiology refresher (5-part series)
- AI literacy and best practices for writing prompts
Document Delivery & Interlibrary Loan
Need something not immediately available on the library website? Staff can request journal articles, reports, book chapters, dissertations, patents, or other scholarly materials. Most requests are fulfilled within one business day.
Book Borrowing
Staff can request print books, which will be mailed directly to them. Turnaround time varies based on availability.