Library Guides: Joint Medical Program Library Resources: Books

Find Books

UC Library Search
UC-wide catalog of books, reports, videos, journals,and other library items.

Online Books: After a search, mouse over available online (on left) then select the checkbox that appears.
Wait List: If a book is out on loan, add yourself to the wait list with the Request button.

(NOTE: UC Library Search replaced OskiCat and Melvyl on July 27, 2021)

Google Books
Search and preview book content.
Use the Find in a library link for a copy near you.

AccessMedicine
Provides access to dozens of current medical textbooks in numerous specialty areas, procedural and other videos, a differential diagnosis tool, practice guidelines, cases, patient education materials, and more.
AccessBiomedical Science
Textbooks, images and videos for biomedical science, public health, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, toxicology, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and more.

Comprehensive resource for students, faculty and researchers at the Masters or PhD level in Biomedical Science fields outside the usual medical track. Key texts such as
Principles of Neural Science, Goodman & Gilman’s Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Cassarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Harrison’s Infectious Diseases, Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, and more.
JAMAevidence
Guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.

Handbooks for PBL: Psychosocial Factors
Dozens of handbooks useful for PBL of psychosocial factors

The Library subscribes to many additional ebook collections.

Sage Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods’ coverage spans the full range of research methods used in the social and behavioral sciences, plus a wide range of methods commonly used in science, technology, medicine, and the humanities.

(and there are many research methods books to be found in the library catalog.)

JMP students should go to the UCSF Library website to access clinical resources, such as UpToDate and Lexicomp