Try electronic books for fast answers!

The Library’s vast collection of electronic books (ebooks) offers quick access to the facts you may need. Find ebooks on the Library Web site by clicking on the “Electronic Books” link (under “Find a Book/Journal”) to go to the Electronic Books search page where you can enter a keyword or select a subject to locate a book on your desired topic.
While medicine and biomedical research topics are the focus of the ebook collection, thousands of books on all topics – not just biomedical – are available through the NetLibrary collection. You can even find “Dummies” series books on Access 2007 and Excel 2007 in NetLibrary.
In addition to NetLibrary, major ebook collections on the Library Web site include the six listed below. On the Web site, you can access the first three of these collections directly by using the “Quick Links” search box.

  • MDConsult contains over 60 leading medical reference texts (also 55 full-text journals and extensive drug information).
  • Access Medicine offers over 50 major medical texts, including 40 books in the Lange Educational Library series.
  • Stat!Ref gives access to over 80 medical texts, including 10 in the “Current Diagnosis & Treatment” series.
  • FreeBooks4Doctors provides links to more than 600 medical books in English and other languages, sorted by specialty.
  • PsychiatryOnline.com offers psychiatric books, journals, and self-assessment tools, and is produced by the American Psychiatric Association, through its publishing entity, American Psychiatric Publishing.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library contains a wide variety of mostly non-medical reference books covering topics such as biography, environment, science, social science, and technology.

Most ebooks are available only to UT Southwestern affiliated users, unless accessed from a Library computer. Some ebooks require establishment of a username and password, especially for off-campus access.

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