Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Looking for Online Books? Try The Electronic Bookshelf

The Library’s Electronic Bookshelf tracks over 300 eBooks in medicine, nursing, and related fields.

How to get there :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Find Books & AV > Electronic Bookshelf

Or in the Search Box at the top of all Affinity Intranet pages, type ANY of the following keywords : ebooks, bookshelf, online books.

Our collection of eBooks hail from a variety of sources including the following : Books@Ovid, StatRef, MDConsult, The NCBI Bookshelf, National Academies Press, and other sources.

The Electronic Bookshelf brings them all together in a single index, or catalog, so there’s no guessing which source contains the eBook you want. In most cases, the eBookshelf provides a direct link to the table of contents for the referenced eBook. All eBooks should be accessible on your desktop from any Affinity computer.

The Electronic Bookshelf is searchable by keyword, or browsable by subject and title.

Please note, the keyword search does NOT search the fulltext of each online book. We’re still working on including these in the Central Search federated search engine. Stay tuned …