Ebola resources for healthcare professionals have been added to the Infectious Diseases Guide and School of Public Health Guide.
Information includes clinical management, diagnostic testing, personal protective equipment (PPE), infection prevention and control, outbreak response, preparedness planning, and emerging research. These links will be reviewed and updated periodically to ensure access to the most current guidance and recommendations.
The section also includes select eBooks!
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The Library has recently acquired 25 new ebooks from Emerald Publishing. The titles cover a variety of topics including healthcare management, social justice, ethics, artificial intelligence, and mental health.
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“Purpose-Built” Art in Hospitals: Art with Intent (Emerald Insight) |
Explores the use of commissioned artwork in hospitals through the dual lens of an artist and healthcare professional, identifying 15 distinct “purposes” of art in hospitals and arguing for the need for greater variety in art offerings that serve the diverse needs of patients, families, visitors, and hospital staff. |
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Designed for all scholars of business and management. this book outlines practical and proven ways of designing, developing, and executing impactful research and writing projects with a view to eventual publication. |
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Highlights five areas of autism spectrum research that currently lack a substantial body of literature: autistic seniors, autistic women, fathers raising autistic children, autistics with intellectual disabilities, and autistics from ethnic minorities. |
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Advances in Disability Research Ethics, Vol. 11 (Emerald Insight) |
Examines processes of disablement and the specificities which arise when researching the lives of people with physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments. Explores topics such as ensuring quality in data, the importance of defining terms, ethical inclusion, use and misuse of the term vulnerability, the intersection of race and ethnicity, the role of ethics committees and other approval processes and maximizing research impact. |
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Artificial Intelligence: Why and How It Is Revolutionizing Healthcare Management (Emerald Insight) |
Identifies a roadmap for the appropriate introduction of artificial intelligence in healthcare organizations that responds to the need of decision-makers and managers to have a clear picture of how to move in the developing field of AI. |
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Discusses an alternative perspective that presents body art as an underappreciated yet accessible source for mental and physical wellbeing. |
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Identifies desirable paths of action to improve health literacy amongst patients, focusing on new technologies that could facilitate reducing health disparities. This book is an essential read for policymakers and health care managers. |
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Provides a systematic review of previous literature about the increasingly worrying challenge in transforming doctors to clinical leaders and offers a qualitative analysis of different countries facing the issue of training this hybrid role. |
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Gathers narratives of mental health, addiction, and dual diagnoses into one publication and critically examines the differences and similarities of these experiences. |
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There is relatively little written for White therapists about how they and their White clients can dismantle White supremacy. Drawing attention to this issue, and building support among White practitioners, Jason Brown aims to dismantle White supremacy in professional activities with clients, in the profession itself, and in public policy. |
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Ethical AI Surveillance in the Workplace, Vol. 10 (Emerald Insight) |
Discusses the structural challenges associated with “wiring the labour market”, including issues of control, autonomy, and voice. From Data Protection Impact Assessments to regulatory sandboxes, and from establishing the right to disconnect to setting up a Code of Ethical Workplace Monitoring, the proposed paths aim to safeguard a responsible deployment of AI-powered monitoring tools within the workplace and protect employees as data subjects whose digital footprints are under constant scrutiny. |
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Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People (Emerald Insight) |
Offers an applied perspective to navigating contemporary and complicated ethical issues that can arise in the field of childhood and youth-centered research. The volume moves beyond a focus on standard, procedural research ethics processes and principles to expose some of the situated ethical moments that researchers grapple with in everyday research practice. |
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Addresses issues relating to research ethics and integrity when undertaking social research with older people and service users. Includes contributions on various topics (e.g., dementia, family carers, safeguarding, and mental health) with the common goal of producing high-quality, relevant research. |
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Health Management 2.0 Transformational Leadership for Challenging Times (Emerald Insight) |
Promotes a modern interdisciplinary and dynamic approach to health leadership and management and outlines international best practice for future teaching and training. |
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How To Deliver Integrated Care: A Guidebook for Managers (Emerald Insight) |
Introduces service planners and managers to successful strategies to design, implement, and manage care integration programs. It details the various components of change in individual chapters, which are illustrated with practical examples from actual care implementation projects. |
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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (Emerald Insight) |
Offers new understandings of the lives, hopes, and desires of children and young people with “life-limiting” or “life-threatening” impairments. Aimed at undergraduate students, this book contributes to contemporary political and theoretical debates about the human in an age of global precarity and austerity. |
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Provides an accessible, lively, and creative entry point to mental health literacy and young people at a time of unprecedented challenges. |
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Occupational Therapy with Older People into the Twenty-First Century (Emerald Insight) |
Explores the realities of later life, ageing in place, the implication of the technological age, meeting needs for rehabilitation, revisiting and valuing the core principles of occupational therapy, and more. |
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Explores the shift to virtual healthcare emphasizing OHC’s engagement, expertise sharing, and capacity for industry transformation, especially across tech-driven nations such as India. |
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Peer Support Work: Practice, Training & Implementation (Emerald Insight) |
Highlights the experiences of contributors who work or study social care and have lived experience with mental health, substance use, homelessness, criminal justice, and migration. |
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Reframing Qualitative Research Ethics, Vol. 12 (Emerald Insight) |
Explores contemporary challenges in qualitative research ethics and generates proposals for reforming ethics review based on researchers’ experience on the ground to support innovative qualitative research in the future. |
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Research and Theory to Foster Change in the Face of Grand Health Care Challenges (Emerald Insight) |
Focuses on environmental uncertainty and the responsiveness of health care organizations, as well as the mechanisms of change and how leaders within organizations frame and execute change. In addition, this book investigates organizational preparedness and response in the face of acute crisis. |
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Provides individuals interested in social justice the ability to discuss and engage in interdisciplinary and non-traditional interdisciplinary team processes. |
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Promotes the best practices and lessons learned from COVID-19 and highlights the importance and impact of using information systems to increase levels of health literacy. |
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The Ultimate Guide to Compact Cases: Case Research, Writing, and Teaching (Emerald Insight) |
Filled with annotated examples, checklists, and writing prompts, this practical guide takes readers through the research, writing, and teaching of short “Compact Cases”. Tips are offered for managing student case writing projects, teaching with cases online, using data visualization to enhance student learning, and getting cases published. |
The Library has recently added some new Books@Ovid titles in Ob/Gyn, Nursing, ICU, and Neuroscience. They include:
Over the last month, ProQuest has shared news about enhancements and changes that either have already been applied or will be coming soon to their ebook platform, ProQuest Ebook Central.
Ebook Central Research Assistant
This tool launched in beta on the platform on April 3rd and offers readers the opportunity to:
This tool is seamlessly integrated into Ebook Central for owned and subscribed titles.
Ebook Central EPUB (Electronic Publication)
Starting May 1, 2025, Electronic Publications (EPUBs) will become the default display format in Ebook Central’s online reader instead of PDF. This change is being made to create a more accessible, user-friendly experience on the platform – especially for readers using assistive technologies.
EPUB is a responsive, flexible format that adapts to different screen sizes, supports interactive features, and works more effectively with screen readers. It also aligns with evolving accessibility standards and legislation.
Users will continue to enjoy a seamless reading experience, now with added flexibility to switch between EPUB and PDF with our online reader. However, please note that anyone who has referenced specific page numbers in materials may see some differences, as EPUB’s reflowable (responsive) format adapts to screen size.
Please be aware that attempting to download large amounts of articles or book chapters may have serious repercussions. Publishers and vendors carefully monitor usage on their sites, and if a “violation” is suspected on an authorized IP-address range, all resource access may be blocked for the entire UT Southwestern community.
The Library recommends that you avoid using automated tools when downloading content including free and open access articles. This activity is subject to fair use and impacts system stability.
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The new AccessAPP from McGraw Hill Medical allows you to quickly find relevant content from the following UT Southwestern subscribed Access databases:
Content ranges from books and chapters to infographics/images/tables/figures to videos/podcasts and review questions.
Complete the following steps to begin using the APP:
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To assist you in using licensed resources responsibly and navigating the copyright and permissions labyrinth, the Library has updated two guides:
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Through a purchase by the University of Texas System utilizing funds from the 2022 Academic Library Collection Enhancement Program (ALCEP), the Library provides access to more content for the De Gruyter eBook Subject and University Press Library (UPL) Collections. This purchase fills in the gaps for titles published since previous purchases, as well as UPL course adoption titles that were previously excluded from our license.
New content includes:
All 80,000+ titles from all purchases are now DRM (digital rights management) free.