This month we are looking at E-Books! A book available at your fingertips with no overdues or reminders. Also no risk of them being damaged by artistic children, hungry dogs and miscreant coffee cups!
These are a range of books available via Open Athens via 2 main collections:Clinicalkey and Ovid
ClinicalKey:
1000+ books published by Elsevier.
A good range of medical specialities including
Search by a topic then limit results by source (books) to locate useful chapters or book titles.
Ovid:
Almost 100 books published by Lippincott Williams and WIlkins (LWW).
Includes titles from the popular Made Incredibly Easy series.
The online collection has expanded this month to cover a futher 70 books of interest to nurses.
Take a look on this page to see at a quick glance what we have available: Ovid Books
Staff working in specific organisations also have additional collections to support them:
SECAMB –West Sussex Knowledge & Libraries have purchased a collection of ebooks for SECAmb. Login to your OpenAthens account and choose the eBook Catalogue to access the list of available titles on Dawson Books
Surrey & Borders have access to:PsycBOOKS. Search or browse the content which includes over 38,00 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other publishers.
Register for Open ATHENS and see what e-books are there for you!
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