The HSRL Library now offers access to online books in support of the information needs of HHS staff. What are the advantages to using online books? For one thing, access to this important information is from your desktop. The collection includes core textbooks in public health, health policy and administration, and health services.
Another benefit is keyword searching. The search feature in online books allows users to look for terms throughout the entire text of the book. For instance, typing "women’s health" into the search box of the Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior will find all chapters where women’s health is discussed. Each is the latest edition and features new and updated information.
To use these resources go to the HSRL Library’s Research Tools>Online Books and then click on the letter of the title you seek.
For assistance with an online book, use the AskUs Live! service; call the HSRL Reference Desk at 301-443-2673; or email at hsrlrefdesk@nih.gov.
Online Books Available Now:
Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary
Adolescent Health Care
Brains Diseases of the Nervous System
Braunwalds Heart Disease
Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology
Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women
Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons
Cecil Textbook of Medicine
Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment
Drug Facts and Comparisons
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Encyclopedia of Virology
Family-Focused Behavioral Pediatrics
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Handbook of Death & Dying
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
Health Care Management
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Merritt’s Neurology
Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress
New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry
Oxford Textbook of Public Health
Principles & Practices of Psychopharmacotherapy
Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology
Psychiatric Secrets
Reichel’s Care of the Elderly
Research in Community and Mental Health
Research in Rural Sociology and Development
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
Research in the Sociology of Health Care
Research in Urban Policy
Research in Urban Sociology
Studies in Qualitative Methodology
Substance Use
More on the Way:
Advances in Bioethics
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Advances in Gender Research
Advances in Medical Sociology
Advances in Program Evaluation
Advances in the Study of Behavior
Research in Community and Mental Health
Research in Rural Sociology and Development
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
Research in the Sociology of Health Care
Research in Urban Policy
Research in Urban Sociology
Studies in Qualitative Methodology