We have renegotiated our licensing agreement with AccessMedicine to allow unlimited concurrent uses of all the titles in this collection. AccessMedicine titles include Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmalogical Basis of Therapeutics, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and of course the very popular Harrison’s ONLINE, as well as numerous clinical and basic sciences titles.

AccessMedicine titles are all listed in the Libraries’ catalog, but can also be reached via the QuickLinks on the left side of our homepage.

Ten titles from the acclaimed “The Requisites” radiology series have been added to the Libraries’ e-book collections.  Reviews of the titles in this series are uniformly positive:

“. . . unique in its approach, complete in its content, and profuse in its illustrative and tabular material.” (AJNR)

“Should be well received by residents preparing for their board examinations . The author is to be congratulated because she has captured the flux of breast imaging.” (AJR)

The titles added are:

• Breast Imaging 2nd ed. (Ikeda)
• Cardiac Imaging 3rd ed. (Miller)
• Emergency Radiology (Soto)
• Gastrointestinal Imaging 3rd ed. (Halpert)
• Musculoskeletal Imaging 3rd ed. (Manaster)
• Neuroradiology 3rd ed. (Yousem)
• Nuclear Medicine 3rd ed. (Ziessman)
• Pediatric Radiology 3rd ed. (Blickman)
• Thoracic Radiology 2nd ed. (McLoud)
• Ultrasound 2nd ed. (Middleton)

They can be found in MDConsult or the Health Sciences Core E-books lists (by title or by specialty), and will soon be added to the Library Catalog.

Recently added to our Core Lists of Health Sciences e-books:

Medical-surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care (4th ed) from the StatRef collection, and Drexel College of Medicine’s Health Encyclopedia.

Find these and other useful  titles in our e-book lists:

• Selected Health Sciences E-books by Subject
• Selected Health Sciences E-books by Title

Please note that these lists are a selection of the health sciences-related electronic books included in our collections.  Additional e-books titles can be found by searching our library catalog.

Some exciting new additions to our collections of e-journals include:

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, and Current Protocols in Cell Biology, both available through Wiley Interscience.

New Health Sciences e-books include:

• Microbiology (McGraw Hill professional; 2nd ed.)
• Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine (McGraw Hill professional; 15th ed.)
• McGraw-Hill’s manual of laboratory & diagnostic tests (McGraw Hill professional)
• Mayo Clinic medical neurosciences : organized by neurologic systems and levels (5th ed.)
• Mayo Clinic internal medicine : Concise textbook
• Acute medicine : a practical guide to the management of medical emergencies (4th ed.)
• Anesthesiology (McGraw Hill professional)
• Current essentials : Pediatrics (McGraw Hill professional)
• Handbook of psychophysiology (3rd ed.)
• Essential practice guidelines in primary care (Current clinical practice)
• Mayo Clinic cardiology : Concise textbook (3rd ed.)
• Dewhurst’s textbook of obstetrics & gynaecology (7th ed.)
• Development of the nervous system (2nd ed.)
• Principles of molecular medicine (2nd ed.)
• Medical management of the surgical patient : A textbook of perioperative medicine (4th ed.)

Please note that these titles have not yet been added to the list of Core Health Sciences E-books, but are available through the Library Catalog.

Did you know that animation videos are available in the online version of Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics?  Videos are highlighted on the contents listing for the book.

A new one was recently added to those already online:  Sinus Node Electrophysiology This animation focuses on the ion channels and transporters that are the primary targets of neurotransmitters of the autonomic nervous system that affect heart rate and drugs used to treat arrhythmias.

To open the e-book (Drexel staff/students only), click here:

Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

From AccessMedicine

Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, 5th ed.

From Books@Ovid

Drug Facts and Comparisons: pocket version 2008.
Fundamental Immunology, 6th ed.
Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Guide, 2008.

From CredoReference

The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health. New Title!

From ebrary

Modell’s Eseential Drugs in Current Use and New Drugs 2006, 52nd ed. New Title!
Nursing Theories: conceptual & philosophical foundations, 2nd ed. New Title!

From Gale Virtual Reference Library

Medicine, Health, and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources. New Title!

From MDConsult

Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics, 11th ed.
Conn’s Current Therapy 2008, 60th ed.

From NCBI Bookshelf

Advances in Patient Safety: from research to implementation. New Title!
Drug Class Reviews. New Title!
Health, United States, 2007.
PubMed QandA New Title!

From Stat!Ref

Casarett and Doull’s Toxicology: the basic science of poisons,7th ed.
Goldfrank’s toxicologic emergencies, 8th ed.

The Libraries have added Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry to their collection.

The ebook has both an image and a question bank that offer answers immediately or can be used as scored practice tests. The book can be found in the catalog or on the Ebooks by Subject or Title page.
Please note there must be a special username and password entered onto the website that must be entered to gain access to these resources.

From AccessMedicine:

Harrison’s Online-17th ed.

From MD Consult:

Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney, 8th ed.
Grainger and Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology: a textbook of medical imaging, 5th ed.
Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th ed.

From NCBI Bookshelf:

Bioinformatics in Tropical Disease Research: a practical and case-study approach. New Title!

From NetLibrary:

Biomedical informatics: computer applications in health care and biomedicine New Title!

From NursingConsult:

Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Iowa outcomes project, 4th ed.
Primary Care: a collaborative practice, (Buttaro) 3rd ed.

From Stat!Ref:

AHFS Drug Information
Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing, 7th ed.
Trauma, (Moore) 6th ed.

The APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources shows users how to cite all kinds of electronic resources. It supplements the electronic resources information found in the APA Style Manual. and has information on citing electronic resources such as ebooks, podcasts, wikis, and undated content on a website. This ebook can be found through the library catalog or on the Health Sciences Ebooks pages.

Available through the Ebooks by Subject or Title pages:

From AccessMedicine:

Smith’s General Urology, 17th ed.

From MDConsult:

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, 5th ed.
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 18th ed.
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 11th ed.

From NursingConsult:

Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Medicine, 2nd ed.
Pocket Guide to Cultural Health Assessment, 4th ed.

From Stat!Ref:
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 28th ed.