LibGuides: SoHP: Medical Surgery Resources: Accessing E-Books

Selected Books

Atlas of Endoscopic Major Pulmonary Resections by Dominique Gossot
ISBN: 9783319559001
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
In this second edition, many different techniques have been described, depending on the use or non-use of an accessory mini-thoracotomy and on the use or non-use of endoscopic instrumentation and video display.
Success in Academic Surgery by Carla M. Pugh (Editor); Rebecca S. Sippel (Editor)
ISBN: 9781447146902
Publication Date: 2013-07-30
Success in Academic Surgery:nbsp; Developing a Career in Surgical Education is a unique and portable handbook that offers careers advice and guidance to medical students, surgical residents and others considering a career within surgery.

Accessing E-Books

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Content: Repository of multi-disciplinary scholarly, open access, peer-reviewed books.
Purpose: A single point of reference for finding open access, scholarly books online.
Special Features: Researcher FAQ
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Content: A multidisciplinary ebook collection downloadable for offline reading powered by EBSCO.
Purpose: Download or read ebooks online.
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Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Content: Comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Purpose: Provides background reading on health issues. Check the "Refereed publications" box to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles.
Special Features: A broad collection of premier full-text reference works, Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter, streaming video, audio, and images
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Health and Wellness Resource Center (GALE) provides access to articles, medical encyclopedias, pamphlets, and videos on health, fitness, and nutrition.
IGI Global InfoSci Books This link opens in a new window
Content: Books, chapters, and peer-reviewed content about a diverse range of topics.
Purpose: Users may access full text, and authoritative information about many topics.
Special Features: Users may explore topics and subjects.
JSTOR Open Content This link opens in a new window
Content: Open-access articles and book chapters covering arts, humanities, business, education, government, health, medicine, and psychology.
Purpose: Provides users with open-access content ranging from peer-reviewed literature to books.
Special Features: Features JSTOR Daily, which combines news trends with scholarly literature and includes links to open-access works.
NavigatorSearch This link opens in a new window
Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more.
Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search.
Note: Certain library databases and publisher content are not searchable in NavigatorSearch, and individual databases may need to be searched to retrieve information due to unique content. NavigatorSearch can be found at https://resources.nu.edu.
Project Gutenberg Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
Open access e-book database. Use to find primary sources in e-book format including epub and kindle functioning. Includes older works.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports.
Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics
Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality