Top Five Online Medical Libraries

Whether you are studying to be a medical assistant, a nurse or a spinal surgeon, you need books and material to reference while doing research and papers. As you probably know quite well, those books are expensive and can make it hard to live frugally on your college budget. So, what do you do? Turn to online libraries. Most online libraries are completely free and/or charge a low fee for an entire year worth of basically free medical books (Imagine $150 per year instead of $170 per book…) Here are five of the best online medical libraries for your use!

PubMed

PubMed is one of the largest online medical libraries available and many of the articles and textbooks available can be used as reference sources for medical papers. PubMed features an online library of over 21 million citations, magazine articles, newspaper articles and book excerpts that you can use for your research! PubMed is affiliated with the National Library of Medicine.

National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine is the National Governments online medical research resource that is available to users for free. The National Library of Medicine features a full library book index, digital books, gene, nucleoid, and biomedical databases. Access to articles, e-books and research papers, grant and fund information and much more!

Research Medical Library

The Research Medical Library offers books, medical citations, articles and more through their online website. Research Medical Library uses an easy to use search system and does search several medical library database’s other than their own. This means that by searching on only one website, you can find your book, even if it is not on the website you are looking on!

Medical Research Library of Brooklyn

The Medical Research Library of Brooklyn features a search system, serial number list, electronic book list of over 2,000 titles, information resources, inter-library resources and much more. The site is an EDU hosted site which means that all material is generally automatically approved for use as reference or study material.

Georgetown Libraries

Georgetown Libraries is the library of Georgetown University Medical School. The library features an article database, ebooks, library catalogue, mobile access, research news, live help, as well as convenient library sections for biology, ethics, science and etc.