UKHSA Knowledge and Library Services provide access to tens of thousands of eBooks to UKHSA staff. Many titles are also available to OHID and NHS England Public Health Staff.
Finding eBooks
eBooks can be found using Discovery Search via MyAthens – see our OpenAthens page for details on how to log in. A partial list of eBooks can be browsed or searched on the library catalogue.
If you have difficulties accessing a particular title, or if there is a title you would like adding to the collection, contact your local library staff or email libraries@kls.ukhsa.gov.uk.
Quick links to reference books
- CDC Yellow Book 2020
- The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual
- Encyclopedia of Microbiology (2019)
- Fields Virology (2020)
- International Encyclopedia of Public Health (2017)
- Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health
- Oxford Textbook of Medicine (2020)
- Plotkin’s Vaccines 7th edition
Collections of note
Borrowbox
This collection contains eBooks and audiobooks relating to wellbeing, learning & development and popular science.
For more details see our separate Borrowbox page.
GIDEON Guides to Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
GIDEON title list on the library catalogue
The disease series of GIDEON eBooks summarize the status of individual or collection of related infectious diseases in every country of the world. All eBooks in the series include distribution maps and images.
The country series of GIDEON eBooks summarize the status of individual infectious diseases, for every country in the world, including their vaccination schedule. Included in this series is Infectious Diseases of the World which summarizes the worldwide status with a distribution map for every disease.
The collection includes COVID19, MERS and SARS: A global status.
Publisher collections
ScienceDirect Focus Collections
Thousands of eBooks including book series, major reference works and textbooks.
Subject collections:
- Agricultural, Biological and Food Sciences
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Biomedical Science and Medicine
- Environmental Sciences
- Health Sciences
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Springer Nature ebooks
Chapter-level access to tens of thousands of eBooks published by Springer, including the Springer Protocols Series. Springer Protocols Handbooks collects a diverse range of step-by-step laboratory methods and protocols from across the life and biomedical sciences.
Oxford University Press
Includes Oxford Public Health and Epidemiology titles, The Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Oxford Textbook of Global Health.
Taylor and Francis
eBooks on a broad range of topics including data science, statistics, infectious diseases, pollution and health communication.
Sage Research Methods
eBooks covering research methods, statistics, and evaluation.
OVID eBooks
Over 270 eBooks are available, including Fields Virology.
