New NCBI Bookshelf Tutorials, Queries, and Discovery Guides Are Available

The National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI's) Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and health care. Bookshelf contains over a dozen formats collected by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), including monographs, reviews, reference works, government publications, standards and guidelines, technical reports, and textbooks.

Explore these new tutorials, queries (which are custom search strings), and discovery guides to help you learn how to use Bookshelf.

Tutorials

• Watch these short video tutorials to learn how to search Bookshelf, how to search within a book, how to use filters to narrow your search, and how to use the advanced search feature.

Subject Queries

• Use these queries to find publications in Bookshelf on more than 90 subjects.

Bookshelf Format Queries

• Use these queries to find publications in Bookshelf in a variety of formats, including catalogs, databases, government publications, technical reports, and more.

Toxicology Discovery Guide

• Use this guide to learn how to explore toxicology resources in Bookshelf, including full-text toxicology reports, assessments, and technical reports.

Textbooks & Reference Works Discovery Guide

• Use this guide to learn how to find textbooks and reference works in Bookshelf, which are the most heavily accessed content in Bookshelf.

Clinical Guidelines and Systematic Reviews Discovery Guide

• Use this guide to learn how to find clinical guidelines and systematic reviews in Bookshelf. Clinical guidelines assist health care professionals with patient care decisions about diagnostic, therapeutic, or other clinical procedures. Systematic reviews are reviews of the primary literature in health and health policy that attempt to identify, appraise, and synthesize empirical evidence to answer a research question.

To learn more about Bookshelf, explore NLM's Learning Resources Database.