e-books

An Athens user name is required to access e-books for your use by Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust. Self register for an Athens user name. The e-books are available through 2 suppliers:

• MyiLibrary Over 700 e-books available. This includes 200+ titles purchased for all NHS staff at national level.  All titles are available to staff and students on placement at Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust, NHS City & Hackney and East London Foundation Trust
• Ovid  Four collections are available to staff and students on placement at Homerton University Hospital Foundation trust and NHS City & Hackney include:

Oxford handbooks & textbooks

Made incredibly easy series (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins) 

5-minute clinical consult collection - 13 books (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins)

5-Minute Clinical Consult, 5-Minute Consult: Clinical Companion to Women's Health, 5-Minute Infectious Diseases Consult, 5-Minute Neurology Consult, 5-Minute Obstetrics and Gynecology Consult, 5-Minute Orthopaedic Consult, 5-Minute Pain Management Consult, 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 5-Minute Sports Medicine Consult, 5-Minute Toxicology Consult, 5-Minute Urology Consult, AHA Clinical Cardiac Consult, Rosen and Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult

Obstetrics & Gynecology consult collection - 10 books (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins) 

Atlas of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Berek & Novak's Gynecology, Cherry and Merkatz's Complications of Pregnancy, Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk, Imaging of the Newborn, Infant, and Young Child, Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (Emans), Principles and Practice of Gynecologic Oncology, TeLinde's Operative Gynecology

Wiley-Blackwell cardiology, evidence-based and nursing collections - 78 books  
Titles include: Accountability in nursing, Advancing practice in rehabilitation nursing, Building the reflective healthcare organisation, Care of people with diabetes, Chronic cardiac care, developing the reflective heathcare team, Essential midwifery practice, Evidence-based cardiology, Evidence-based gastroenterology and hepatology, Evidence-based respiratory medicine, Law and the midwife, Research and development in clinical nursing practice.

Links to other lists of e-books

Anatomy Atlases
Anatomy Atlases is a digital library of anatomy information including links to 6 anatomy textbooks. 

FreeBooks4Doctors!
FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. This page links to 365 books sorted by specialty. You can also link to English language publications arranged alphabetically by title. FreeBooks4Doctors is funded in whole by Bernd Sebastian Kamps.

Virtual Pediatric Hospital
Virtual Pediatric Hospital is a digital library of paediatric information, including links to 9 paediatric textbooks. 

MedicalStudent.com
MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine curated by Michael P. D'Alessandro. Includes many links to e-textbooks arranged by subject headings, patient simulations etc.

The On-line Books Page
The On-Line Books Page is a website that facilitates access to 30,000+ books on all subjects that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books, for the benefit and edification of all. The page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.

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e-journals

Print and e-journals - Links to over 3000 full-text e-journals and details of print holdings. You must log in with your NHS Athens username to see all the journals available to you.  If you do not login you will only see a subset of e-journals.

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Databases

A list of the databases available through the Newcomb Library as well as databases freely accessible via the internet

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