LibGuides: NHS: Ebooks

Getting started using ebooks

A growing range of ebooks are available for NHS staff.

A key resource is the full collection of all health related ebooks from Oxford University Press - including all the handbooks and Oxford Textbooks of.

Additional titles are gradually being added to eBook Central. OpenAthens login is required for this. This system supports the "borrowing" of titles for use on tablets and devices.

A growing number of ebook titles are available via Kortext (OpenAthens required). This includes a collection of titles in support of diversity and inclusion as well as some of the most popular books in NHS libraries.

The majority of ebooks listed on the Library Catalogue are not available without a King's College London username and password (k number).

Oxford Medicine Online (OMO) - NHS This link opens in a new window NHS OpenAthens required - click on more for full details
Choose 'NHS England' as your institution then use OpenAthens details

Oxford Medicine Online is a collection of online medical resources which cover every stage in a medical career. The collection covers prestigious digital medical resources from Oxford University Press, including world-renowned titles covering a variety of specialty areas ranging from anaesthesiology to nursing, and from dentistry to neurology. Available on the Oxford Academic platform, content is easy to navigate, accessible on any device, and supports a myriad of tools and features, images and videos, diagrams and charts, and more.

NHS users have access to over 1700 books including Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Oxford Clinical Guidelines..

NHS Staff can self register for OpenAthens - contact nhsenquiry@kcl.ac.uk with questions or if you are a King's student.
Ebook Central (Proquest) - NHS This link opens in a new window NHS OpenAthens required - click on more for full details
Libraries & Collections are exploring the potential for ebooks for our NHS staff. A small collection of purchased titles is available with further access to over 154,000 titles. You can read online but also borrow (download) these titles for a few days at a time.

NHS Staff can self register for OpenAthens - contact nhsenquiry@kcl.ac.uk with questions or if you are a King's student.

Kortext ebooks OpenAthens required click more for additional information
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Popular titles with NHS staff - includes titles on non clinical topics from coaching to EDI and sustainability
Library catalogue
The resource links in LibrarySearch are to the University access. NHS staff should use the Knowledge & Library Hub for ejournals and check the ebooks tab on this guide. Use the filters to limit to paper books.

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Ebooks via Ebook Central

Over 150,000 books are available via Ebook Central Platform (OpenAthens required). You can read online, print, copy and download to devices. The titles are a mixture of frequently borrowed items, assorted handy bits and a wide range of materials across all subject areas. You can find the whole of Rook's Textbook of Dermatology, Brocklehurst's, texts on mentoring and Revalidation and the seminal How to read a paper. Do contact the library with suggestions for titles that would be particularly useful to have electronically.

For Health Information Week a collection of books on health and wellbeing topics was been created. You can find links to books on things like exercise, mindfulness and more from the PDF below

Health Information Week ebooks
Links to a range of ebooks on health and wellbeing topics created for Health Information Week 2019

Ebooks from Oxford

You can access the full collection of Oxford University Press ebooks in health via Oxford Medicine Online. So every Oxford Handbook, Oxford Textbook, Emergencies in, Oxford Desk References whenever you need it. And online offers additional possibilities so books like Oxford Textbook of Medicine is updated on a regular basis and includes extra chapters, videos etc. You can download high quality images for your power point slides. Login free access is available via IP on GSTT and King's College London Library PCs, via the Kwiki ebooks page at KCH or via OpenAthens from anywhere.

To login via OpenAthens - go to OxfordMedicine.com select "Sign in" and then "Login with Athens/Access Management Federation". At this point you need to identify yourself as being part of "NHS England" by either typing into the list or selecting the option when offered if you have accessed the site before. You will then be prompted for your OpenAthens login.

Ebooks from Kortext

A growing collection of titles focussed on the needs of NHS staff is available on the Kortext platform (OpenAthens required).

Click on Collections to browse or search all the titles.