Health Professions

The library purchases eBooks wherever possible.  These are designed to be read online although some will also let you download for a period of time.

The advantage of an eBook is that as long as you have access to the internet you will be able to access them wherever and whenever you want, in many cases you can make notes on them, highlight text, and bookmark pages.

Searching on Primo will discover both print and eBooks.

From Primo, click on the image, the title or 'Online access'  and then the eBook link, to open up the eBook:

An increasing number of eBooks are now available to download and read offline, sometimes a chapter at a time, sometimes the whole book for a limited time period.

• Unlimited access means that any number of people can access the book at the same time

• Multiple access/copies means that we have a number of licenses per year, in the range of 200 - 400

• 1 copy/single user license means that only one person at a time may view the eBook - if you can't get into the book, try again later.

The best place to search for an eBook is within one of our eBook collections.  I tend to buy most of your eBooks from 'eBook Central'.

Whilst eBooks are designed to be read online you can save/download sections (within copyright guidelines) and occasionally you will be able to download books for a limited period. You can also create an account to highlight, make notes, and save books to an online bookshelf. 

See the short video below for how to make use of these features in eBook Central