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New ebooks available thanks to trust fund support

Nova Scotia Health Library Services has several new ebooks on our virtual shelves, thanks to the generosity of the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund (Cape Breton, Guysborough, Antigonish Strait region).

With funding from the trust fund, Library Services has added the following titles to support physicians, nurses and allied health providers. Doody’s Review Service highly recommends many of these titles.

To view the new ebooks:

1. Click on a title below.
2. Click on View full text at the top of the ebook record.

Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund Purchases:

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs (2023)

Trauma, Occupation, and Participation: Foundations and Population Considerations in Occupational Therapy (2021)

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD and Its Subtypes (2020)

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for OCD: A Treatment Manual (2020)

Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook (2022)

Lymphatic Structure and Function in Health and Disease (2020)

The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2021)

Dialectical behavior therapy (2020)

Mastery of your anxiety and panic: therapist guide (2022)

Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (2022)

As Nova Scotia Health staff and physicians, you have access to more than 20,000 ebooks!

Looking for ebooks on a particular topic? Our Discover search (a Google-style search for library content) searches the library’s print and electronic resources, including full-text articles. Its built-in features bring relevant content to the top of your results so you can quickly find the content you need.

Searching in Discover will help you find resources in our own library collection and beyond. If you only want to search our ebooks, follow these steps:

On the library’s homepage:

1. Navigate to Search Sources (A) in the top navigation bar.
2. Select Discover (B) from the drop-down menu.

Under Search Nova Scotia Health Library Collections:

3. Select the Books (C) tab and enter title you’re looking for (D). 
4. Click on Search to find out if we have that title in our collection and how to access it.

If there's a book or other resource you think Library Services should add to our collection, please let us know! To suggest a purchase:

1. Click on the Services drop-down arrow at the top of the library’s homepage,
2. Click on Purchasing.
3. Under Suggest a Library Purchase, select the blue button: 
4. Fill out and submit the electronic form.

NOTE On mobile devices, click on the grey button in the upper right corner of your screen, select Services and then Purchasing.

Thanks again to the generosity of the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund. As always, if you have any questions, please connect with us at AskLibrary@nshealth.ca.

Amanda Andrews

Librarian Educator, Education & Training Lead
Eastern Zone - Cape Breton, Guysborough, Antigonish