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A-Z Databases: Health Sciences; eBooks

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18 Databases found for Health Sciences; eBooks

Health Sciences Databases

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AccessScience gives full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. It is updated daily. It also includes biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
Access is limited to 2 simultaneous users.

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Database consisting of online books and journals as well as the evidence-based point of care feature, FirstConsult (FC).

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The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books that meet academic standards.

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Access to selected e-books.
Search and view the full text of the selection of eBooks purchased by UCT Libraries.

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OECD’s Online Library containing all books and papers published since 1998 as well as a vast collection of statistics with data going back to the early 1960s. UCT access does not include the IEA statistics.
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Select a subject of interest by clicking "Browse Subjects".

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Includes access to journals and some books published by the American Psychiatric Association.

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Access to journals and ebooks published by Elsevier Science.
SpringerProtocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer.

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Alternate Name(s) Monographs
UCT Libraries has been publishing monographs (books) via open access since 2015. Monographs are important for research communication and must continue to be available open access. UCT Libraries are advocates for open access publishing, providing resources for researchers to make their work freely accessible in various ways.

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Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Starting a search

eReference Books are a good place to begin your search and to thoroughly understand the topic you are researching.

Dictionaries provide definitions of unfamiliar terms.
Encyclopedias give explanations and succinct overviews of topics.



Health Sciences Guides

Terms of Use

The subscribed databases available via this list may only be accessed by authorised users, and for non-commercial, educational, and scholarly use. Please visit our Database A-Z licence conditions & disclaimer. for more information.

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