LibGuides: Health Information Management: Books & eBooks

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Here are a few places you can find eBooks, just remember that you will have to login with your myNOVA username and password.

EBSCO eBook Collection
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A collection of eBooks curated by NOVA librarians on a variety of different subjects. eBooks can be accessed in the browser or downloaded for offline use. (NVCC)

Coverage includes over 21,000 eBooks from the early 1900s to today; New titles added monthly.
Subjects span nearly every discipline and include both fiction and non-fiction titles.
Ovid: Books
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A collection of e-books for nursing. Browse books individually or search across the entire collection. Searchable in the library catalog. (NVCC)
R2 Library
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The R2 Digital Library is a collection of more than 800 eBooks featuring a
comprehensive selection of medical, nursing and allied health titles. (NVCC)
ScienceDirect
Includes e-books, encyclopedias and journal articles in the Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health and Social Sciences & Humanities fields. After doing your search, you can limit your results to just books, reference, or journals. (VIVA)
Salem Press Health
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A full-text database that provides access to eBook versions of Salem Health print titles that are owned at NOVA Libraries. (NVCC)

Sample Searches:

*affordable care act AND seniors*	Use AND between two or more terms to find materials with all the terms. Searching for affordable care act AND seniors will only include books that have both affordable care act and seniors in their contents.
electronic health records OR EHR	Use OR between similar terms. Searching for electronic health records OR EHR will find books that refer to either term.
*"electronic health records"*	Use quotation marks ( " " ) around specific phrases such as "electronic health records" to find the words in that specific order.
record*	Use an asterisk ( * ) to find multiple endings of one word. Using record* as a search term will include results that refer to record, records, recorded, recorder, recording.

Did you know that you can find some of your textbooks at the library? Stop by the desk and see if your professor provided a copy for you to use.

...Write down the book's Call Number. The call number is basically the book's address, and is what you will use to find the book on the shelf.

(eBooks do not have call numbers. You will view them online.)