In addition to the libraries at the different schools and hospitals of the university, the Central Library houses the richest collection in the area of medical, biomedical, health sciences, and basic medical sciences in the country. The library supports the research, teaching and medical services commitments of the university.

The Central Library collection includes 35000 volumes in English and Persian (Farsi), 1323 current periodical titles, 9355 theses and dissertations, and a wide selection of audio-visual aids.

The comprehensive collection of the library is backed up by the very latest developments in modern information storage handling and retrieval techniques.

The bibliographic information of the above collections is stored in five databases, which are searchable from any workstation of the library network. There is also a management serial control system which handles ordering and acquisition of current periodicals. Moreover, several large databases such as Medline, EMBase, Biological Abstracts, Science Citation Index, etc. on a networked CD-ROM system are accessible to library users wishing to locate details of the recent literature. Using its rich collection of 2846 journal titles, the library has a very active photocopy service, providing photocopies of requested articles by many universities, research institutes, hospitals, service organizations, individual physicians, and specialists from all over the country.