Transcript Table of Contents: Part B  Internet Resources (a sampling of gateways and portals) BookFinder  FreeBooks4Doctors.com  FreeBookCentre.net  Hesperian Online Library  Who Health Topics:

Table of Contents: Part B
 Internet Resources (a sampling of gateways
and portals)
BookFinder
 FreeBooks4Doctors.com
 FreeBookCentre.net
 Hesperian Online Library
 Who Health Topics: Publications
 BookShelf (MY NCBI)
 Merck Manuals: Online Medical Library
We now view some Internet-based sources of E-books besides those
available from HINARI. Using the Internet Addresses (url) at the top of the
slides, you will have access to these free E-books.
The initial site is a gateway titled BookFinder, a source to over 1,200,000 ebooks. Access is by keyword and broad subject categories.
We have completed a search for infectious
diseases titles. For all the e-books, you
are able download a PDF version. Note
that these are very large files and will take
considerable time to download.
For the e-book Tropical Infectious
Diseases, the downloadable PDF
version is over 73 Megabytes.
For each keyword search, 100 books are
listed so precise searches are required.
We have completed a search for
myocardial infarction titles. The results
are a total of 10 while a cardiology search
results in the maximum 100 titles.
We have displayed the
Medicine category and the
various broad sub-topics.
We now view some Internet-based sources of E-books besides
those available from HINARI. Using the Internet Addresses
(url) at the top of the slides, you will have access to these free
E-books.
The initial site is a gateway titled FreeBooks4Doctors! that links
to 365 health–related E-Books. This site can be accessed from
the HINARI Other Free Collections drop down menu.
This slide lists the Infectious Diseases E-books
from the gateway.
You can access the titles by topic, impact factor,
stars (rating system), language and year. The
site notes which titles are PDF files.
To access the full-text books, you will be
redirected from the MedicalBooks4Doctors
gateway to the website of the specific resource.
We have opened two books from the Infectious Diseases
listing in FreeBooks4Doctors!. The first is the ABX Guide
from Johns Hopkins University (USA). This E-book is
organized as a website with numerous hypertext links
from the initial page. Users must register (free).
Note the url at the top of the slide.
The 2nd example from FreeBooks4Doctors is a
Centers from Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) E-book titled Epidemiology and
Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases.
From the links in the table of contents, you could
open PDF files of specific chapters. This Ebooks replicates the format of a print book.
Note that the page does have links to related
resources from the CDC website.
Another useful gateway is the FreeBookCentre.Net
We have opened the Medical Books category. Note
that these links are organized by broad subject
category plus there is a keyword Search engine.
You can access this category from the drop down
menu using the simpler www.freebookcentre.net url.
Below the broad subject
categories is a list of
Recently Added e-books.
This slide contains a list of
infectious diseases Books that
are free on the Internet. Note
that the [Language] is listed.
Another excellent source of E-books
for health practitioners in low-income
countries is the Hesperian Health
Guides. From this page, there are the
following options to full-text books:
DOWNLOAD PDF or READ ONLINE.
When attempting to download a book,
this page will display. You can choose to
sign up for info on updated resources. If
you click No Thanks, the downloadable
version of the book will be displayed.
We have opened Where There is
No Doctor. You can view the
contents chapter by chapter.
As of June 2011, the National
Academies Press granted free access
to all its electronic books. Titles in the
Health and Medicine and Food &
Nutrition topics are relevant.
We have opened the Health
and Medicine topics page.
Note the specific SUBTOPICS
that should be of interest. Note
also the keyword search box.
From any individual title’s page,
you can click on DOWNLOAD
FREE PDF link and obtain the
full-text. You will need to
register but that is free.
Another good resource for E-books is the World
Health Organization’s Health topics A-Z list. By
clicking on one of the links to a specific topic, you
will be redirected to a page that includes WHO
publications in multiple formats including E-books.
Once again, this is accessible from the URL at the
top of the slide and you do not need to be logged
into HINARI to access these resources.
We have opened the Infectious Diseases
page from the WHO Health Topics subject
listing. Note that there are links to various
WHO documents including E-books under
the Publications sub-heading.
The NCBI Bookshelf contains access to over
700 e-books in life science and healthcare
including books, collections, databases,
documentations and reports . Note the lists
of New & Updated and Featured Titles. We
will open the Browse Titles option.
The NCBI Bookshelf can be searched by Types, Subjects and Publishers.
We have displayed the complete title alphabetical listing - with the Type of
material listed in the last column. You also can complete a keyword Search.
If you click on Book Types, you can access 110 ‘books’.
The last set of E-books is the MERCK
MANUALS Online Medical Library, the
electronic version of the print Merck Manuals.
Access (keyword search, a detailed index,
sections and symptoms) to all these
resources is from this index webpage.
We have accessed the Infections Diseases
section which contains a detailed directory
to information on this topic.
The Dengue page contains information on Symptoms,
Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of this disease.
This Online Medical Library functions as a website with
hypertext links. For the information on each specific topic,
you have the options to Print, Email or PDA download.
This is the end of Module 7.5.
There is a workbook to accompany this module.
The workbook will take you through a live session
covering the topics included in this demonstration
with working examples.
Updated 2013 02