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Library Resources for Biomedical Sciences

Books in the Library

If you wish to browse the bookshelves on level 4 of the main library, the following sections will be most relevant to you:

  • QD1-999 Chemistry
  • QD415-436 Biochemistry
  • QH426-470 Genetics
  • QH471-489 Reproduction
  • QH573-671 Cytology
  • QM1-695 Human anatomy
  • QP1-981 Physiology
  • QR1-502 Microbiology
  • QR75-99.5 Bacteria
  • QR100-130 Microbial ecology
  • QR171 Microorganisms in the animal body
  • QR180-189.5 Immunology
  • QR355-502 Virology
  • RB1-214 Pathology
  • RS1-441 Pharmacy and materia medica


Books online

MD Consult contains over 50 leading medical reference books online, including Gray’s Anatomy, and Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease.

STAT!Ref is a collection of approximately 40 online medical texts, including Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology and Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry.  

Harrisons Online (the complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine)

Ebrary is a multi-disciplinary collection of online books, and  a good source for study and revision guides, e.g. Biochemistry and Genetics: Pre-test Self-assessment, Text Book of Microbiology

EBL (EBook Library) is a multi-disciplinary collection of online books, and also a good source for revision guides, e.g. An Introduction to Biomedical Science in Professional and Clinical Practice , and  The Tools of Science: The Handbook for the Apprentice of Biomedical Research.


Journals and journal databases

The Library provides access to the following key journals, as well as many others:

If you need to do a literature search for journal articles on a particular topic, there is a large selection of electronic resources to choose from on the Library's Electronic Resources index.  However, if you're not sure which to choose, the following databases would be a good starting point:

If you want to find out whether the Library subscribes to a particular journal, use the e-Journal Portal.

If you're after an article from a journal which is not available through the e-Journal Portal, you can request the article you need from the Library's Document Delivery service. 


Multimedia Resources

SMART (Scientific & Medical Art) is a collection of over 12,000 illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics. This is a useful resource when you’re looking for illustrations for a presentation

Anatomy TV contains anatomical 3D models from skin to bone for various body parts. It includes biomechanical animations, dynamic MRI, and movie clips to supplement the 3D model

Read Science - the world's leading journal of original scientific research

  

 

 Read An Introduction to Biomedical Science in Professional and Clinical Practice

 

Read Gray's Anatomy