Electronic books (e-books) are digital versions of books; they are read using a computer or a special reading device:
a personal computer can be used for accessing, reading, studying and printing excerpts from most e-books
since e-book files are often large, limited memory and slow download times may affect use of some handheld devices
The Library’s eBook Resources are located on the home page under Resources.
Books@Ovid
This multidisciplinary e-book collection includes popular titles such as Washington Manual™, Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, and Nurses’ Guide to Clinical Procedures just to name a few.
Three ways to search Books@Ovid:
Features:
Natural Language Processing, search (an algorithm that searches, word variants (e.g. plurals, foreign spellings, etc.), strong synonyms, hyponyms, acronyms plus other resources), then it ranks and sorts the results using another algorithm.
The relevancy ranking and sorting for the Books@Ovid results are based on an approximately sixteen step weighted algorithm. Based on the NLP results, the main groups of the ranking and sorting algorithm consider: Concept Count, Concept Completeness, Concept Prominence, Concept Cohesion and Vocabulary Level. The results, a numerical value (not displayed) from the algorithm, of each category components in the groups are compared position by position to determine rank (sort order within the five stars to one star groups).
Ranked with stars (Score) indicates the number of one-to-one search concepts match with the search terms used and the citation/abstract retrieval
Use the Search Aid, Broaden search to include related terms (synonyms, plurals, singular, word variations, and British/English spelling)
Ovid Full Text links to the passage within the textbook
Uncheck TOC for larger reading panel
Jumpstart—e-mails URL right to the viewing page, precipitant must also be a MCG user
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Access Books@Ovid from the Library e-Books page or the Ovid Quick Link on the Library web site.
STAT!Ref
Collection of e-books includes 5 Minute Clinical Consult, Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas, Harrison’s Principles and Practice, and Williams Obstetrics.
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Access using the link above or select Stat!Ref from the library web site Quick Links
NCBI Bookshelf
Contains approximately 60+ books, searchable by subject and table of contents.
Subject areas include:
Alternative medicine
Epidemiology
Genetics
Immunobiology
Small group of NCBI books are available to download to handheld device.
Access NCBI Bookshelf
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From PubMed homepage, change Search box to Books then type in a search term in the text box
Link from PubMed Abstract or AbstractPlus display, “Cited in Books” is a feature which links your search results to available NCBI book chapters.
