Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Tag: e-books

We’re excited to introduce our new eBook search widget, now live on the library’s homepage! This tool streamlines the process of finding and accessing eBooks, solving some of the navigation challenges in our main catalog. Give it a try today for a faster, simpler search experience! We’d love to hear your thoughts—your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve. 

Reach out to mclibrary-collections@duke.edu.

Categories: Alerts

Tags: e-books

Have you been meaning to brush up on your Excel skills? Learn how to use Canvas? Read that NYT bestseller? Now is the perfect time to get cozy and learn something new! Your NetID gives you access to LinkedIn Learning and Coursera – online platforms with hundreds of courses on different software like Tableau, and topics like Presentations or Educational Technology. If you receive a new tablet or e-reader for the holidays, you can still hit the books with Duke's collection of ebooks and …

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: e-books, audiobooks, podcasts

Have you noticed the newly designed front page for ClinicalKey? There have been some massive changes to the resource beyond just a facelift. Read on for more info and tips to get the most out of this great resource!

First, in case you are unfamiliar, Elsevier’s ClinicalKey is a medical search engine that gives you access to:

• Full-text reference books (over a 1000!) and journals including top titles such as Gray’s Anatomy, Goldman’s Cecil Medicine, Braunwald’s Heart Disease, The Lancet and Mayo Clinic Proceedings
• Clinical Overviews that provide succinct, easy-to-navigate summaries for quick answers
• Drug monographs
• Clinical calculators
• Practice guidelines
• Customizable patient education handouts
• Drug indications, do not…

Categories: Alerts, Databases, Resource Updates

Tags: clinicalkey, textbooks, e-books, images, calculators

The Medical Center iIbrary & Archives offers electronic access to ACLS, BLS and PALS  which are licensed for six simultaneous users. 

Note: Please be sure to log out when you are done so others can get access.

The provider manuals are linked from our Clinical Tools page, the Online Catalog, and listed below for your convenience.

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider…

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Tags: ACLS, BLS, PALS, e-books

Try before you buy – or don't buy at all! We have hundreds of essential clinical titles in our e-book collection, many are indispensable textbooks for students, teachers, and clinicians. We are proud to offer a Board Review Series and Clerkship/Clinical Rotations series which feature core e-books for Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Surgery, including the Blueprints and Step-up series. ClinicalKey E-Books,…

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The Medical Center Library & Archives now subscribes to AccessMedicine, a resource which provides access to the latest electronic editions of over 95 core biomedical and health sciences textbooks, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Hurst's The Heart, Williams Obstetrics, and the CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment series.

Additionally, you will find an extensive multimedia library that includes examination and procedural videos and patient safety modules; Diagnosaurus, a differential diagnosis tool; practice guidelines from Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care; diagnostic tests from Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests…

Categories: Databases

Tags: e-books

As you plan vacations and downtime this summer, don't forget to drop by our Library and other libraries in Durham and the surrounding areas for some reading materials. No matter what your reading interests are, you're covered!

For nonfiction health and science, stop by and browse our Engel Collection for titles like these:

• Eros and Illness
• Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
• Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
• …

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Tags: e-books

ClinicalKey is an online search tool for e-books, journals, Procedures Consult, First Consult, surgical Vitals and other clinical information. ClinicalKey provides access to more than 1,000 e-books in medicine and surgery and evidence-based content to help nurses find answers to clinical questions at the point of care.

Over time, the content of ClinicalKey changes. Books and journals are added and removed from the database. Here are two easy ways to keep up with changes to ClinicalKey content:

• Check the ClinicalKey Content Updates Website
• …

Categories: Databases

Tags: clinicalkey, e-books, e-journals

Nurse Burnout: Combating Stress in Nursing
Suzanne Waddill-Goad

Nurse Burnout: Overcoming Stress in Nursing explores the stress-fatigue-burnout connection and the risks involved, and defines the health concerns and practice considerations for how to move the profession forward. By providing the tools needed to set boundaries and combat compassion fatigue, author Suzanne Waddill-Goad offers nurses a renewed energy to be at their personal and professional best.

Suggestions for purchases? Complete our online Recommend…

Tags: e-books

Can't figure out how to download a chapter from ClinicalKey? Wondering why you can't view a particular e-book? Finding answers to your e-book questions just got easier with our new Finding and Using E-Books Guide.

In this comprehensive guide you will find:

• A Quick Comparison Chart that lists the downloadable content and available formats for each collection, as well as options for a mobile app or to export to a reference manager
• Tips and examples for citing e-books in APA and AMA format
• Information and screenshots that indicate viewing, downloading, and other functionalities for each collection

You can access the…

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: e-books