Collections | Individual Titles | Links beyond Stellenbosch 

Collections

Access Medicine  from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides access to more than 60 medical titles
from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment,
case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform. The Clinical Library comprises respected and revered
medical titles such as:
Harrison's Online (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17e).
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment,
Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine,
Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine,
and much more!

Dictionaries (medical & other)

E-Books @ Stellenbosch

Ebrary 40+ academic medical texts. Can be searched simultaneously or individually.

The Gale virtual Reference Library  (For access to individual titles, click here) is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials can be accessed online anywhere from the campus 24/7. 

MD Consult Core Collection is available to Stellenbosch University Library clients.  Individual titles can be searched via the library catalogue or simultaneously as a group via MD Consult.  The Core Book collection contains more than 51 reference works

Abeloff: Abeloff's Clinical Oncology 2008
Adkinson: Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice 2008 
Adam: Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology 2008
Auerbach: Wilderness Medicine 2007 
Bope: Conn's Current Therapy 2010
Bradley: Neurology in Clinical Practice 2008
Brenner: Brenner & Rector's The Kidney, 2007
Canale: Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 2007.
Ferri: Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2010
Goldman: Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 23rd ed. - 2007 
Kliegman: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 18th ed. - 2007
Kumar: Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease, 2009 
Mandell: Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases 2009
Rakel: Integrative Medicine 2005
Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery -  2007 

and many more....

RHL Library the WHO Reproductive Health Library. Includes videos.  ( open InetKey as well as logon codes needed. Clients please 
phone 021-9389368). 

Springer e-books collection on Biomedical and life sciences, published in 2009, as well as a few Springer reference
works, housed on SU's existing SpringerLink platform. Search the library catalogue  for "SpringerLInk Online" or
search according to subject via the SpringerLink database. 

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Individual Titles

ACP medicine for Stellenbosch University clients only.  Tel (021) 938-9368 for username . High quality, peer-reviewd, practical reference that responds to the practitioner's need for current, evidence-based information and answers. Updated monthly and covers  15 sub specialities of Internal medicine. Features full search capabilities, clinical updates, FDA Drug approvals, and more. 

Encyclopedia of bioethics, 3rd ed. 5v

Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol & addictive behavior, 2nd ed, 4v

Encyclopedia of public health, 1st ed, 4v

Encyclopedia of alternative medicine, 2nd ed Yet to be published

Gale Encyclopedia of mental disorders 1st ed, 2v

Gale Encyclopedia of neurological disorders, 1st ed

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd ed

Gale Encyclopedia of nursing & allied health, 1st ed, 5v

Nutrition and Well-being 

Scientific American Medicine (SAM) Online changed title to ACP medicine.

Toman's Tuberculosis case detection, treatment, and monitoring: questions and answers

World of microbiology and immunology, 1st ed, 2v

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Links beyond Stellenbosch University network (Open Inetkey required) 

The websites listed below for your convenience are entirely independent of the Library Service. Changes in access, format and content is at the discretion of the publishers thereof and not attributable to the Library Service. Internet logon codes (Inetkey) is needed for access within the campus network.

Freebooks4doctors supplies free access to medical books.

Google Books

Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups.

Hesperian's Online Library with permission from the Hesperian Foundation, who has made a commitment to publish online versions of their books and to keep those online editions up-to-date, incorporating all corrections and revisions as they are made.

To ensure you find the latest versions with updates and changes, link to the download page and select the appropriate title/s. Available titles are:

Where There Is No Doctor
Where Women Have No Doctor
A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
A Book for Midwives
HIV Health and Your Community
Helping Children Who Are Deaf
Helping Children Who Are Blind
Where There Is No Dentist
A Worker's Guide to Health and Safety
A community guide to environmental health
Women's Health Exchange
Global Health Watch

HIV Medicine 2005 textbook by Albrecht, Hoffman & Kamps (eds.)

List of serials indexed for online users Full titles and abbreviations for journals indexed on Medline.  Published by  NLM.

Merck manuals  free access.

Multimedia Textbooks  from the Virtual Hospital..

National Academy Press Medicine/Public Health books. Places all its books on the internet, free to all, including the titles of the Institute of Medicine, reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

Online Books  from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Pubmed Bookshelf  is a small but growing collection of biomedical books adapted for the web by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The books are also linked to terms in PubMed. Can be searched by subject by typing specific concept into the searchbox.

SARS Reference  free medical textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). 

South African Health Review

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