Libraries
The Rutgers University Library system contains over 2,000,000 bound volumes and over 1,000,000 government documents, pamphlets, maps, and other materials. The two largest divisions are the Archibald Stevens Alexander Library in New Brunswick, which houses materials in the social sciences and humanities, and the Library of Science and Medicine, which is located on the Busch Campus in Piscataway (immediately adjacent to EOHSI, the College of Pharmacy and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) and concentrates on science, technology, medicine and psychology. The Library of Science and Medicine is also supported by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In addition, the Rutgers University Library system includes the general libraries of the undergraduate colleges in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick-Piscataway as well as such specialized collections as the libraries of agriculture and environmental science (at Cook College), the Schools of Law, the Institutes of Microbiology and Management and Labor Relations, and the Center of Alcohol Studies; branch libraries in art, chemistry, and physics; and collections in several other university divisions of instruction and research. The Alexander Library maintains a record of the holdings of the entire system and all the libraries of the system are accessible, both directly and through interlibrary loan and telephone reference service, to all members of the university community. Rutgers also just recently "opened" its 26th library, the Rutgers Digital Library, consisting entirely of online content.
In the New Brunswick area, the University subscribes to about 650 journals in the biological sciences with a complete or extensive back file on most of these. Holdings in the biological sciences are primarily in the Library of Science and Medicine which has approximately 13,000 catalogued monographs. This is exclusive of the extensive collection of scientific indexing and abstracting services and biological material in the Government Document Department.
The library of the Department of Environmental & Community Medicine contains about 600 volumes and receives many of the major periodicals in the field of preventive medicine and public health.
The George F. Smith Library on the Newark campus of UMDNJ is available as a support resource to faculty and students of the Graduate Program in Toxicology. This library currently houses more than 80,000 volumes of bound monographs, texts and periodicals, and receives more than 2,000 periodicals in the basic and clinical sciences. It also has an extensive collection of microfilms on government-sponsored research reports.
A growing interest in the use of audiovisual materials in health care education is reflected in the growth of the media library at UMDNJ-RWJMS. The media library houses the teaching collection of 1,500 audiovisual productions. This teaching collection includes self-instructional packages, audio cassettes, audiotapes, video cassettes, slides, motion pictures in several formats, filmstrips, and microfiche.
Laboratories
The laboratories of the JGPT are spread throughout the two universities and are the laboratories of the faculty members. Many of the faculty are currently housed in the EOHSI Building. Laboratory space for graduate students is set aside in the EOHSI building under the Director, but many students work in the laboratories of their mentors in other buildings. To take an online tour of EOHSI, click here.
Equipment
The equipment currently available to students and faculty provides opportunities for application of high technology to the study of problems in toxicology. Through cooperative arrangements, students may obtain use of the extensive equipment of the JGPT faculty and of other graduate programs and departments. The collegial interaction in the use of expensive and highly sophisticated equipment has been a hallmark of these Universities, and plays an important role in maintaining excellence in many programs. In addition to highly sophisticated equipment available on campus, students have the opportunity to collaborate with scientists in neighboring companies and universities who have expertise necessary for solving specific problems.
Computing Services
In room 418 of the EOHSI building, Toxicology Division, there are seven networked computers for students and faculty to use. EOHSI's Network Services Department is also available to provide help and equipment for your computing and multimedia needs.
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