Physical Therapy: Find Books

Google Scholar is a time-saving, scholarly search interface accessible from within the Google interface. With Google Scholar, you can access peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book sections.  For literature searching, specialized databases have more functionality and access more comprehensive results, but Google Scholar is a good tool to use for a search for a known item.

• OneSearch
  Various materials owned by the University Libraries.
• WorldCat@USD
  Locate materials held in the University Libraries and at libraries worldwide. Request titles not owned by the University Libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
• Google Books
  Search the full-text of books. Most titles permit only a few pages to be viewed online, but this source can be useful as a finding tool.
• Interlibrary Loan 
  Request books not available in the University Libraries.

You may find links to individual e-books through the Library Catalog. Here are some e-book services that specialize in areas of medicine. Newly-added books will appear in these services before they show up in the Library Catalog.

Access Medicine: Includes Harrison's and the well-known Lange Series plus other classic titles. Full text of medical and pharmacy text books including Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology and Katzung's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology

ClinicalKey eBooks: Titles in this collection cover most medical specialties.

PubMed/NCBI Bookshelf: NCBI's collection of biomedical books and journals that can be searched directly by typing a concept into a search box and selecting one of more than 28 categories such as MeSH, Proteins, or GENSAT.