E-book Resources for HINARI Users
(Advanced Course Module 7)
Table of Contents: Section A
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E-book Capability
Taylor & Francis
American Psychiatric Press Publishing
Oxford Textbook of Medicine & Oxford Handbook
of Tropical Medicine
Table of Contents: Section B
• Internet Resources (a sampling of gateways and
portals)
• Google Books
• Booksee.org
• FreeBookCentre.net
• FreeBooks4Doctors.com
• Hesperian Online Library
• National Academies Press
• BookShelf (MY NCBI)
• WHO Health Topics: Publications
E-book Capabilities
An electronic book is typically delivered over a
computer network. E-book capabilities vary
by vendor, but most offer hyperlink navigation
and keyword searching within the text.
Printing and downloading functions are
usually available, but are restricted to protect
copyrights.
Library and Information Technology Glossary. University of North Texas Health
Science Center Library. May 12, 2010 (Accessed August 24, 2010)
To find books by title, click on the appropriate
Books collection alphabetical letter.
Note that there is a View complete list of
books option although this drop down menu
does not have hypertext links to the specific
titles. You will need to go back to the Books
collection A-Z list to open any e-books.
We have opened the A list from the
Books collection list.
Note that the list includes non healthrelated titles. You will need time to
locate the titles that will be of use to you.
We will look at some of the Taylor
& Francis e-books. The first way
to access these titles is via the
Books collection A-Z list. We
have opened the Books collection
B Accessible Content list and
identified two titles.
A second option is, via the Publishers list, and open
Taylor & Francis. Displayed is the list of Accessible
Content journals and e-books from this publish and, on
this page, there are 7 book titles noted. We will open
Behavior, Health and Aging. When a publisher grants
access to your institution, this is a useful way of
identifying what e-books are available.
Now displayed is the initial page of the
Behavior, Health and Aging that includes
the citation information for the book. We
will click on the green Access icon.
We will click on the
Quick access option.
Now opened is the Quick
Access option. Note the
print, zoom, full screen and
display page options.
We now will click on the
Download a copy option.
Now displayed is the title page to the downloaded
PDF version of the book.
Note the zoom, save and print options in Chrome.
These may be displayed differently in other browsers.
The Contents page now is
displayed. Note that this
PDF version does not
contain any hypertext links.
Via the A listing in the Books collection A-Z drop down menus, we have
opened the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th
edition (2008), one of the psychiatry related e-books from this publisher. You
also can access these titles by opening the Publishers list and clicking on
American Psychiatric Publishing - to display the Accessible Content material.
Note that the chapters also have the Download PowerPoint Slideshow option.
We have displayed Chapter 3.The Role of Psychiatric
Measures in Assessment and Treatment.
Note that you can access the sections of this chapter
by clicking on the links in the left-column frame.
We have displayed the Clinical Decision Tree, Chapter 3.
Note the options to Email a link, Bookmark This and
either Print Section or Print Chapter. You also can save
the specific text as an html document.
Three Publishers have been highlighted and several
others also have offered access to their books.
Other American Psychiatric Publishing E-books (some listed
under American Psych… and others by unique title)
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Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry
Textbook of Psychopharmacology
Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment
Dulcan’s Textbook of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-IV Casebook
Gabbard’s Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
Helping Parents, Youth and Teachers Understand Medications
for Behavioral and Emotional Problems
• Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology
• Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatment
• What Your Patient Needs to Know About Psychiatric
Medications
Now opened is the O list from the Books collection AZ list. Similar to the Journal Collection, the format is
divided into Accessible Content (the default) and All
Items options. This example is for an institution where
all titles are included in the publishers’ offer. Note the
two titles from Oxford University Press.
We now have opened is the O list from the Books
collection A-Z list - for an institution where many
titles are not included in the publishers’ offer.
Note that there are only 7 items (2 publishers) in
the Accessible Content list. In the All Items display
option, most of the titles will have the white box
with the ! exclamation point.
The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is one of the
foremost international textbooks of internal medicine.
It provides practical guidance on the clinical
management and prevention of disease, with indepth coverage of the traditional specialty areas.
Scroll down this page to the ‘expandable’ table of
contents that details the contents of each topic.
By scrolling down the initial page, the Contents
page now is displayed. We will open Chapter
8 (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).
Note the list of Subjects(s) in Oxford Medicine.
We now view the opened chapter
and will click on the link to Chapter
8.1 – Epidemiology of sexually
transmitted infections.
Displayed is the Epidemiology of
sexually transmitted infections
sub-chapter. Note the option to
Download chapter (pdf).
We have displayed the Introduction of
this sub-chapter. Note the links to
View-full sized figure and also the
option to Download figure as
PowerPoint slide.
When opening the All Items option of
the Complete List of HINARI Books,
there is the Send to CSV option. You
can receive a list of all the books in
the format used by spreadsheets.
Now opened is the CSV list in
Excel. This is a large (<10 MB) file.