e-Journals & Books

Atlas of Diseases of the Kidney - This consists of five volumes of texts with images, searchable in numerous ways.

BioMedSearch - BioMedSearch contains free PubMed/MedLine publications, plus additional journals and a collection of theses and dissertations that are not available elsewhere, making it the most comprehensive biomedical search on the web.

Complete Herbal in Bibliomania - A free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts

Drug Digest - Searchable primarily by common name, this site allows you to select two or more herbs or drugs from a list and check them for interactions with each other. Interactions are rated according to the level of documentation and potential severity.

Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology - 17th Edition, the Anatomy & Physiology Place

Free Books for Doctors  - Free Books for Doctors promotes free access to medical books. See list of 650 titles on sidebar. Registration is required to access some books. A few books only list the table of contents

Medifocus e-Book - Current Medical Guides on Major diseases and conditions. Includes free full text description previews of topics listed on the sidebar.

Merck - Merck provides all of The Merck Manuals on a not-for-profit basis as a service to the community

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse - A service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database  - This database provides evidence-based information on Natural Medicines.

NetLibrary - This site provides access to online books enabling you to simply key in the author's name or a word from the title, the ISBN, or subject. Valid Massachusetts public library card required.

PubMed - This is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

PubMed FAQ

PubMed Tutorial - Covers PubMed's scope and content, how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and retrieve citations, how to build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools (Details, Limits, History, etc.), how to manage results using display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, e-mail and order features and My NCBI filters, how to save search strategies, how to link to full-text articles and other resources, and how to use special queries and other PubMed/NCBI tools.

The National Academies Press - This site 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.

The Online Book Page - The Online Book Page, University of Pennsylvania. This is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

University of Utah Health Sciences Library - This popular web resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.

 

 

 

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