Description for Grant Writers
Updated: November 2025
The Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library supports the education, research, patient care, and community service missions of the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNT Health) by meeting the information needs of students, faculty, staff, and the local health sciences community. The library offers a full complement of services, including 24×7 worldwide access to scholarly bibliographic and clinical resources, borrowing privileges, use of individual and group study areas, photocopying, printing, and document delivery/interlibrary loan service. The library’s staff of 30 FTE provides expert instruction in the use of information resources and assistance, with research and patient care-related literature search assistance. All help is provided using both traditional in-person channels, along with remote methods such as virtual reference and chat services.
The library spends over 3.1 million dollars each year acquiring scholarly resources, and its collection contains over 25,000 electronic journals, nearly 28,000 print and electronic books, and 180 searchable databases in the biomedical sciences, clinical medicine, public health, and affiliated fields. All electronic resources can be accessed through the Lewis Library website at https://library.unthealth.edu and are available to UNT Health students, staff, and faculty from anywhere at any time. For those wishing to study, collaborate, and socialize in person, each of the library’s three floors is available for student and faculty use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Lewis Library manages DataSafe@UNT Health, a research data hosting service for UNT Health-affiliated faculty, staff, and students. The repository provides convenient tools that allow researchers to deposit, publish, and manage datasets. It also offers researchers key functionality, allowing them to meet funder mandates for the secure archiving and sharing of research data. UNT Health’s data repository is hosted by the Texas Digital Library and uses an open-source application called the Dataverse software, developed by Harvard University.
Lewis Library also maintains the UNT Health Scholarly Repository, known as Scholar @UNT Health, an online resource that preserves intellectual works created by UNT Health faculty, staff, and students, and enables discovery of these works by the international scientific community. You can view repository items, including student theses and dissertations, at https://unthsc-ir.tdl.org/. In addition to working on digital content creation and preservation, Lewis Library operates the University Archives, which includes rare books and other UNT Health historical artifacts. The archives offer users the opportunity to access historical material in osteopathic and physical medicine as well as items related to the founding and administration of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of North Texas Health Science Center.