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HINARI Advanced Course Part B
Table of Contents: Section B
• Internet Resources (a sampling of gateways and
portals)
• Google Books
• Booksee.org
• FreeBookCentre.net
• FreeBooks4Doctors.com
• Hesperian Online Library
• National Academies Press
• BookShelf (MY NCBI)
• WHO Health Topics: Publications
We now view some Internet-based sources of E-books besides
those available from HINARI.
In the Google books search box, we have entered hypertension
AND pregnancy and clicked on Search books. The material comes
from the Google Library Project and Partner Programs.
The results contain a listing of full
books, chapters or pages. If the
book is in the Public Domain, you
can download it. Otherwise, there
is online access.
Displayed is the online access to
Chelsey’s Hypertensive Disorders in
Pregnancy – at least the 1st 80 pages.
Click on Add to My library. Note the
option to buy the EBOOK.
If you have a Google Account,
you can store the link to the
book in your account
Using the Search Tools option,
the Any books drop down menu
is displayed. Click on the Free
Google eBooks option.
Now displayed are the results for the
hypertension in pregnancy search with
the Free Google eBooks limit.
Note the Sorted by drop down menu.
With the relevance and by date options.
Using the Internet Addresses (url) at the top of the slides, you will have
access to these free E-books.
This site is a gateway titled Booksee.org, a source to over 2,400,000 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.
Displayed in the pdf version of
the table of contents for
Infectious Diseases, 2nd edition. ,
the downloadable PDF version is
50.8 Megabytes.
For each keyword search, 100 books are
listed so precise searches are required.
We have completed a search for health
and developing countries.
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.
We start with 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 medical books.
This contains the subject
listing for pediatrics
online Books. Note that
the [Language] is listed.
This is the display for
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
and includes the rating and
the download option
The gateway is 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 Pharmacology 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.
Another excellent source of E-books for
health practitioners in low-income
countries is the Hesperian Health Guides.
From this page, there is the option to
download chapters of each book.
The books are geared toward primary
health care and are in several languages.
When attempting to
download a book, this page
will display. You must
download the material
chapter by chapter.
We have opened Where There is
No Doctor. You can view the
Chapterby2 chapter.
has
contents chapter
been downloaded.
The National Academies Press grants
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 also
the keyword search box.
We have completed a pregnancy
and complications search. The
books are displayed by most
current publication date and each
has a downloadable PDF version.
To download a book you must Log
in to MyNAP. Registration is free via
Fromhave
any an
individual
the I don’t
accounttitle’s
link. page,
you can click on DOWNLOAD
FREE PDF link and obtain the
full-text. You will need to
register but that is free.
From www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/ or the
link from the Databases drop down menu
(highlight and click on search), the NCBI
Bookshelf can be opened.
The NCBI Bookshelf contains access to
e-books in life science and healthcare
including books, collections, databases,
documentations and reports . We will
open the Browse Titles option.
The initial list of titles is Sorted by Pub Date
(reverse). The NCBI Bookshelf titles also
can be accessed by Types, Subjects and
Publishers. Or by keyword Search.
Now completed is a pregnancy
complications search that includes
467 books, collections, databases,
documentations and reports .
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 Adolescent Health
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.
We have opened the Comprehensive
cervical cancer prevention and control
publication. It can be downloaded
from this page.
This is the end of HINARI Module 8
There is a Work Book to accompany this part of the
module. The workbook will take you through a live
session covering the topics included in this
demonstration with working examples.
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