Access to all Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect for a year

As previously announced, we have access to all non-Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect for the whole of 2011.

And now we have access to over 700 Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect as well, until March 2012. Towards the end of this period we will be able to choose which titles we want to retain permanent access to (up to a particular value - unless we choose to spend more). Titles cover medicine, dentistry, health sciences, nursing and allied healthcare and veterinary medicine (though note that we have already bought the veterinary medicine collections up to and including 2008 titles).

See the library catalogue records.

TRIAL: CABI eReference Books on Ovid

As well as our trial of VetMed Resources and eBooks on the CABI platform, we now also have a trial of 3 CABI eReference Works on the Ovid platform, again until 15th April 2011.

To access these titles just follow the links below. They are routed through EZproxy for off-campus access:

The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare

The Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Nutrition

Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties

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TRIAL: VetMed Resource and CABI eBooks

We have trials of two CABI resources until 15th April 2011:

VetMed Resource and CABI eBooks

To access these trials just click the links above - they are routed via EZproxy for off-campus access.

VetMed Resource is a single comprehensive information resource containing all of CABI's veterinary information to provide the ideal support for veterinary continuing education. It includes:

The bibliographic database Veterinary Science Database (which we currently subscribe to) from 1972 and is weekly

Full text conference papers, journal articles and bulletins, from sources including:
- Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
- Journal of Veterinary Public Health
- Veterinary Practitioner
- World Congress Proceedings. World Small Animal Veterinary Association
- North American Veterinary Conference
- Ontario Veterinary Medical Association Conference Proceedings

Breaking news updates, news articles covering current topics and an events calendar

CAB Reviews: specially commissioned, peer reviewed review articles written by specialists in their field

The Animal Health and Production Compendium which includes over 2000 pictures, drug database, glossary, food safety module, parasite identification keys, and detailed coverage of health and production topics.

CABI eBooks are available in the following subject collections:

Agriculture
Animal & Veterinary Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Human Health, Food & Nutrition
Leisure & Tourism
Plant Sciences

and are sold in bundles according to year of publication: 2000-2004, 2005-2007, and 2008 onwards.

Books are presented in PDF format and you can either download single chapters or the entire eBook in one file.

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ScienceDirect Veterinary Medicine e-books

We have purchased Elsevier's 2000-2008 Veterinary Medicine e-books collection and access is available now from http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/science/books/vetscimed/vetmed. We will be adding catalogue records for all titles soon.

The collection includes key titles such as Auer & Stick's Equine Surgery, Fubini's Farm Animal Surgery, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, and Burk's Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasonography, and includes about 130 titles altogether.

Our purchase also includes online access to the Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences and the Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences.

ScienceDirect e-books are provided in simple PDF chapters, with none of that Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that we know you hate.