Veterinary Science Electronic Books

This selected list of electronic books is updated periodically only. Check the University of Melbourne Library catalogue which lists both print and electronic book titles.  Search by book title and then select the title marked "electronic resource". You can also search by keyword for "electronic resource" to see all available items including electronic formats such as an internet item, CD-ROM or computer disc. Not all electronic book packages are included in the catalogue. However, electronic book providers/packages are listed under Find Database in SuperSearch and in selected Database subject sets e.g. Veterinary Science.

In SuperSearch under Resource Sets is a new resource set called Find a Book. This lists the Library catalogue, the BONUS catalogue (selected University libraries including the University of Melbourne involved in a reciprocal lending scheme), the University of Melbourne Digital Repository, Google Book Search, and a selection of electronic book databases.

Go to Biomedical Electronic Books Showcase for a selected but comprehensive listing of electronic books in the biomedical sciences available through the University of Melbourne Library.

Accessing Electronic Books

All access to licensed electronic resources will require authentication by University of Melbourne staff and students with a University of Melbourne email username and password.

Access Medicine * - access to online books including Harrison's Online (and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th Edition) McGraw Hill

Animal health at the crossroads: preventing, detecting and diagnosing animal diseases National Academies Press, 2005

Books@OVID* - selected titles include:
- Wintrobe's clinical hematology
- Field's virology

Critical needs for research in veterinary science National Academies Press, 2005

Current Protocols Online* Wiley Interscience - manuals covering laboratory methodologies e.g. in immunology, molecular biology

Encyclopedia of dairy sciences*ScienceDirect

International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) - registration required. Click on Library then IVIS books to access electronic books covering various animal species- avian, bovine, equine, companion animals, exotics and zoo species, pigs, small ruminants and camelids. There are also books on toxicology, veterinary drugs, veterinary virology, plant poisonings, and laboratory animal management.

Knovel* - access to books in science and engineering including:
- Casarett & Doulls Toxicology - The Basic Science of Poisons
- Pesticide, veterinary and other residues in food

MD Consult* - electronic medical books including books in pathology, gastroenterology, surgery, haematology.

NetLibrary*- access to electronic books in science, medicine, humanities, law, economics. Titles include:
- Harrison's principles of internal medicine (10 concurrent users)
- Encyclopedia of farm animal nutrition
- Equine behaviour: principles and practice (Mills and Nankervis)

Nutrient requirements of beef cattle National Academies Press, 7th rev. edition 1996 (update 2000)

Nutrient requirements of cats National Academies Press, rev. ed. 1986 (Updated edition is Nutrient requirements of dogs and cats print 2006)

Nutrient requirements of dairy cattle National Academies Press, 7th rev. edition 2001

Nutrient requirements of laboratory animals National Academies Press, 4th rev. edition 1995

Nutrient requirements of poultry National Academies Press, 9th rev. edition 1994

Nutrient requirements of sheep National Academies Press, 6th rev. edition 1985 (Updated edition is Nutrient requirements of small ruminants: sheep, goats, cervids, and New World camelids print 2007)

Nutrient requirements of swine National Academies Press, 10th rev. edition 1998

Nutrient requirements of nonhuman primates National Academies Press, 2nd rev. edition 2003

The Merck veterinary manual Merck and Co. Inc. and Merial Ltd. 9th ed. 2005

* Access only to University of Melbourne staff and students. Some books may have a limit to the number of users that can access the resource at a time.