Via the ’A’ listing in the Find journals by A-Z drop down menus, we have opened the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5 th edition (2008), one of 16 psychiatry related E-books available from this publisher. Note that the chapters also have the Download PowerPoint Slideshow option. This format would be useful for presentations and lectures.

We have displayed Chapter 3.The Role of Psychiatric Measures in Assessment and Treatment. Note that you can access the sections of this chapter by clicking on the links in the left-column frame.

We have displayed the Clinical Decision Tree, Chapter 3. Note the options to a link, Bookmark This and either Print Section or Print Chapter. You also can save the specific text as an html document.

Other American Psychiatric Publishing E-books Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry Textbook of Psychopharmacology Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment Dulcan’s Textbook of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV Casebook

Gabbard’s Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Helping Parents, Youth and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatment What Your Patient Needs to Know About Psychiatric Medications Remember – to access the American Psychiatric Publishing’s e-books, you must login to HINARI and go to the specific letter of Find journals by A-Z drop down menus.

Via the ’A’ listing in the Find journals by A-Z drop down menus, we have accessed Applied Mycology, an E-book published by CABI, a not-for profit science based development and information organization. This is one example from the 21 titles in the human health and nutrition sub-set of CAB eBooks available via HINARI. These titles include Home Parenteral Nutrition, Integrated Food Safety and Public Health, and Parasitic Flatworms. Note: the CAB publications are large PDF files that are slow to download. You are able to download an individual chapter which is a considerably faster option.

We have opened the initial page of Applied Mycology. It is a PDF file that allows you to print all or part of the material.

From the page with the link to Applied Mycology, we have clicked on the listing for Human, Health, Food & Nutrition. This page gives you a listing of the CAB E-books in this broad subject category and links to the full-text for those available to HINARI users. Reminder – access the CAB E-books from the Find journals by A-Z drop down menus.

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 2 nd 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 E- books replicates the format of a print book. Note that the page does have links to related resources from the CDC website.

Another excellent source of E- books for health practitioners in low-income countries is the Hesperian Online Library. Note the list English titles for download (as PDF files). This site can be accessed from the url at the top of the slide.

After clicking on the Where There is No Doctor download link, another webpage will display. To access the downloadable PDF files, check the No thanks (and take me to the free downloads) button and Go box.

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 url.

This slide contains a list of infectious diseases Books that are free on the Internet. Note that the [Language] is listed.

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, 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