TTUHSC Electronic Books, Theses, & Dissertations
Collections of Electronic Books, Theses, & Dissertations
Note on e-book descriptions:
- The descriptions below were for the most part supplied by the e-book providers and have undergone minimal editing. The TTUHSC Library of the Health Sciences guarantees neither the accuracy of these descriptions nor of the information found in the e-books themselves. Inclusion of an e-book on this list does not imply endorsement of its contents by the Library.
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AccessMedicine
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McGraw-Hill (paid site license)
Description: "McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions. . . . Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review."
Note: AccessMedicine includes a Clinical Library as well as the LANGE Educational Library.
Note: Click here for more information about AccessMedicine.
Note: Also listed as a database.
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Books@Ovid
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Books@Ovid (paid site license)
Description: "Ovid delivers key medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts from a variety of publishers to clinicians' desktops through the Books@Ovid database. Books@Ovid offers the complete text of these sources in a highly interlinked and easily navigated graphical interface, giving quick access to crucial diagnostic, research, and reference information.
"The Books@Ovid database includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from some of the most respected sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology. A searcher can choose to run a search in one text, selected texts, or all texts. Color diagrams, charts, and other textbook illustrations are available as thumbnails or full-sized graphics. Within an individual book's interface, single-frame or multiple-frame environments contain the retrieved text. Buttons bars on the top and side of the screen facilitate navigation and provide links to the search page and Help. Search screens provide links to Home, Logoff, Help, and the main Ovid database screen. If the user is accessing a specific textbook, links are available to the text's table of contents and to the Search and Results screens, making it easier for searchers to jump from one book section to another."
Note: TTUHSC faculty, staff, and students have access to the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Medical Book Collection of approximately 350 titles as well as selected titles from Oxford University Press, Springer, and other publishers.
Note: All of these electronic books are listed individually on the A-Z Individual Book Lists available on the TTUHSC Electronic Books, Theses, & Dissertations Web page.
Note: Also listed as a database.
- See: NCBI Bookshelf
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Dissertations
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ebrary
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ebrary (paid site license)
Description: ebrary offers e-books from the world's leading STM and academic publishers. The TTUHSC Libraries have purchased access to these e-book subject databases: -
- Life Sciences (includes Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Environmental Studies) [over 2,400 titles]
- Medical [over 1,500 titles]
- Nursing & Allied Health [over 1,800 titles]
- Physical Sciences [over 1,700 titles]
These books may be accessed from the ebrary link above. Most
are also available from the
Library Catalog.
Note: Click here to download the ebrary Patron User Guide.
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FreeBooks4Doctors!
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AmedeoGroup (free)
Description: "FreeBooks4Doctors was created to promote the free availability of medical books on the Internet."
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INASP Health Links : General Health Resources : Fulltext E-Books
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International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) [U.K.] (open access)
Note: "INASP Health Links - the Internet Gateway to selected websites for health professionals, medical library communities, and publishers in developing and transitional countries."
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McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine
- See: AccessMedicine
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MD Consult (paid subscription package)
Description: "MD Consult develops and operates a family of online medical information products to meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. Founded by leading medical publishers, MD Consult integrates peer-reviewed resources from over 50 publishers, medical societies, and government agencies."
Note: TTUHSC faculty, staff, and students have access to the following MD Consult services: -
- MD Consult Core Collection
- MD Consult Infectious Disease
- MD Consult Pain Medicine
- MD Consult Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Note: Click here for content lists on the MD Consult Resource Center Web page.
Note: All MD Consult reference books are listed individually on the TTUHSC Electronic Books: Individual Electronic Books Web pages.
- See: MedicalStudent.com
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MedicalStudent.com (open access)
Description: "MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information designed to help all students of medicine. The goal of MedicalStudent.com is to provide a starting point for entry into medical places of enlightenment, entertainment and education on the Internet. MedicalStudent.com identifies authoritative medical World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire. In essence, MedicalStudent.com is meant to serve as a "pico portal" for users interested in quality medical resources on the Internet. . . . MedicalStudent.com uses the following criteria for World-Wide Web site selection: -
1) The site is selected by a process of peer review by accreditation, because accreditation models are designed for works that change
over time. To become accredited, a site must clearly display four core quality standards:
a. Authorship, including the author's name, affiliation, and credentials.
b. Attribution of facts through the listing of references.
c. Disclosure of site ownership and sponsorship.
d. Currency of the site by listing dates of content posting and updating.
2) The site must be free to use, in part or in whole.
3) The site's information must be primarily in Hypertext Markup Language format (HTML) so that it can be read by users with the lowest common denominator World-Wide Web browser."
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National Library of Medicine (NLM) (open access)
Source: National Library of Medicine via National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (open access)
Description: "Medicine in the Americas is a digital library project providing scanned historical American medical books in pdf and as searchable text files. The project is aimed at the general public, with special emphasis on historians, students, clinicians, and librarians.
"The project draws on the collections of the History of Medicine Division of The National Library of Medicine and includes works not only from the United States, but from all over the New World.
"In order to produce the highest quality images, the pages of the books are scanned directly. Pdf files are offered for downloading, the texts are searchable, and direct links are provided from NLM's online catalog, LocatorPlus.
"The books are mounted on the NCBI Bookshelf, which makes their texts searchable.
Note: Click here for more information about Medicine in the Americas.
- Source: ScienceDirect [Elsevier] (paid subscription)
- Coverage: Vol. 1 (1955) to date. Description: "The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with over 400 volumes, the series contains much material still relevant today-truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences."
Note: Vol. 1 (1955)-v. 310 (1999) are not part of the paid subscription. Access to these volumes was purchased separately.
Note: Click here for more information about Methods in Enzymology.
Note: Also available in
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NAP The National Academies Press (NAP)
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National Academies Press (NAP)
Selected Subject Categories: -
- Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Education
- Environmental Issues
- Food and Nutrition
- Mathematical Sciences and Statistics
- Medical Sciences and Healthcare
- Physical Sciences
- Public Policy
- Research Issues and Scientific Leadership
- Science and Ethics
- Space Science
- More . . .
Description: "The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports
issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research
Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of
topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. The
institutions represented by NAP are unique in that they attract the nation's leading experts in every field to serve on their blue ribbon
panels and committees. For definitive information on everything from space science to animal nutrition, you have come to the right place."
Note: The National Academies Press offers "many titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are available for purchase."
- See: NCBI Bookshelf
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (open access)
Description: "In collaboration with authors and publishers, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is adapting biomedical books for the web. The books may be accessed in two ways:
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(1) they may be searched directly using any search term or phrase (in the same way as the bibliographic database PubMed);
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(2) they can be found through links to PubMed abstracts. Each PubMed abstract has a "Books" button that displays a facsimile of the abstract, in which some phrases are hypertext links. These phrases are also found in the books available at NCBI. Clicking on a hyperlinked results in a list of books in which the phrase is found. More . . .
Currently, the majority of the links are between the books and PubMed. In the future, more links will be made between the books and other types of information, such as gene and protein sequences and macromolecular structures."
Note: Most electronic books from the NCBI Bookshelf are listed individually on the
TTUHSC Electronic Books: Individual Electronic Books Web pages.
- Source: Neonatology on the Web
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NetLibrary via TexShare Core Databases (paid site license)
Description: "More than 27,000 eBooks are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out. TexShare's eBook collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, academic, and scholarly publishers. Search by title, author, keyword, publisher, publication date, or ISBN number." [description from TexShare]
Note: Also listed as a database.
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NetLibrary (paid subscription package)
Description: "Our goal is to provide you and your patrons with a dynamic collection of academic, professional and consumer medical materials that can support clinical and medical research as well as provide patient and staff reference information. Key topics covered will include nursing, evidence-based medicine, critical care, genomics/proteomics, and drug development/therapeutics. The collection also offers: More than 800 medical and health titles from such notable publishers as McGraw-Hill Professional, John Wiley & Sons, BMJ Books, Kluwer, Taylor & Francis, Springer-Verlag, Karger, Health Administration Press, World Health Organization and more."
Note: All NetLibrary Shared Medical Collection books are listed individually on the TTUHSC Electronic Books: Individual Electronic Books Web pages.
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The Online Books Page
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Online Books Page (open access)
Selected Subject Categories: -
- Bibliography and Library Science [Library of Congress classification Z]
- Education [Library of Congress classification L]
- Medicine [Library of Congress classification R]
- Science [Library of Congress classification Q]
- Biological Sciences [QH-QR]
- Mathematics and Computer Science [QA]
- Physical Sciences [QB-QE]
- Social Sciences [Library of Congress classification H]
- Technology [Library of Congress classification T]
Description: "The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access
to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and
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- An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet
- Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts
- Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books
- Information on how readers can help support the growth of online books
The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library
planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site. The site is hosted by the
University of Pennsylvania Library, who provides the server, disk space, and network bandwidth for the site. They also employ the editor,
and support him in his various digital library activities (of which this is but one). The online books listed on this page have been
authored, placed online, and hosted, by a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the world (and throughout history!)."
Major parts of the site include:
- See: Books@Ovid
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Psychiatry Online
- See: PsychiatryOnline
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American Psychiatric Pub. via PsychiatryOnline (paid site license)
Description: "PsychiatryOnline is a powerful website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American journal of psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. Much more than individual titles, PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable you to quickly target all the information you need.
"PsychiatryOnline is an integral component of everyday psychiatric practice. Resources are provided to assist with -
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- The latest research and news in the field
- Professional development
- Certification, recertification, and CME support"
Note: TTUHSC faculty, staff, and students have access to the following
electronic books from PsychiatryOnline:
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- American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Compendium 2004
- The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of clinical psychiatry. 4th ed.
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV-TR. 4th ed., text revision
- DSM-IV-TR casebook : a learning companion to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, Fourth edition, text revision
- DSM-IV-TR handbook of differential diagnosis
- Quick reference to the American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Compendium 2004
- Treatment companion to the DSM-IV-TR casebook
Note: All of these electronic books are listed individually on the
TTUHSC Electronic Books: Individual Electronic Books Web pages.
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Book of the Month
"As a PsychiatryOnline subscriber, you get access to a free PDF version of a featured book EVERY MONTH from the APPI bookstore. . . . The APPI Bookstore features 700+ titles covering all aspects of psychiatry."
Note: Also listed as a database.
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Shared Medical Collection STAT!Ref
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Teton Data Systems [STAT!Ref] via TexShare TexSelect Databases (paid site license)
Description: "STAT!Ref® online is a cross-searchable, healthcare reference that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools in one site."
Note: For more information on STAT!Ref: -
- How to Use STAT!Ref
- How to Use STAT!Ref
- How to Use STAT!Ref (Flash File Format)
Note: All STAT!Ref electronic
books are listed individually on the
TTUHSC Electronic Books: Individual Electronic Books
Web pages.
Note: Also listed as a database.
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Texas Tech University [and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center] Electronic Theses and Dissertations
- Source: Texas Tech University Library
- Coverage: 2005 to date. Description: Electronic versions of Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations submitted to the Graduate Faculties of Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
Note: "All available ETDs are listed on the ETD page. Any ETDs that are not listed might be currently withheld at the author's request, meaning that nobody can access it. In such a case, you must contact the author and request a copy directly from him or her."
Note: Click here for more information about Texas Tech University [and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center] Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
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