PreMed 1, NIT -- eBooksWorksheet
To find the answers to the questions on this worksheet, you will need to study the
NML Web Site and the notes you took during the NIT eBooks class. The worksheet
will not be graded and no credit will be awarded for completing it, but completing it
will help you prepare for the test on the material covered during the session.
1. Using the “Medical Subject” option under the “NML Catalog Search” function
on the NML home page, search on the term “pediatrics” (do not include the
quotation marks). Viewing 130 results, what is the call number of the first ebook result?
a)
b)
c)
d)
WS 21 M649c 2003eb
WS 21 M649c 2003
WS 39 Z99 2003
WS 360 C6408 2009eb
2. How many users at one time can access the ebook Rook's Textbook of
Dermatology? __________
3. In which e-book resource would you find A Dictionary of Public Health?
____________________________________________________
4. In which e-book resource would you find Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical
Dictionary?
______________________________________________________
5. Starting on the NML Home Page, click on the link to Oxford Reference
Online, and then find and click on the “Medicine” link under the “Subject
Reference” section of the Oxford Reference Online Home Page. How many
ebook titles are listed? ___________
6. Search the NML Web Site’s A to Z list of all eBooks for the title
Cardiovascular Physiology. From the results shown on the “Total eBooks
found” Web page, enter the following information:
The last name of the first listed author __________
Edition ______________
Publication year ________________
Name of the ebook collection in which the book is located: ___________
7. In the ebook Gastrointestinal Physiology, how many key concepts are there
listed in Chapter 3, “Gastric Secretion”? ___________
8. Using the Advanced Search feature of AccessMedicine, how many results do
you get when searching on the term “purine” in Harper’s Illustrated
Biochemistry? ______________
9. In the Books@Ovid ebook collection, how many books are listed under the
subject “Neurology”? _________
10. What is the title of the “Appendix” to Murray and Nadel's Textbook of
Respiratory Medicine?
________________________________________________________
11. (a) Clicking on the option “Select All” on the Advanced Search Page interface
of STAT!Ref, how many results do you receive if you search for the term
“crash”? ____
(b) How many results do you get if you limit the “Select All” results to “Titles
By Discipline”? ______
12. Once in ebrary, what tab do you click on to access your personal ebrary
account?
a) Bookshelf
b) Sign In
c) My Settings
14. Use the appropriate link under the “Subject Areas” section of the ebrary
13. Home Page to answer the following question: How many documents does
ebrary currently contain on the subject of “Medicine”? __________
15. In ebrary, how many results are retrieved if you limit the results from the
Subject search of “hypertension” to the additional subject “etiology”? _____
16. In ebrary, how many results do you get if you search for books by the author
Charles Darwin? ______
17. In the book Anatomical Terms and their Derivation, what is the title of the
chapter in which the term “tibia” appears? _____
18. In the ebook, Systems of Our Body, find and select with your mouse any
instance of the word “epithelium,” Then use the appropriate option in the
ebrary “Info Tools” menu to locate the definitions of the word. How many
definitions display? _______
19. What is the maximum number of pages you print at one time for any book in
ebrary? _____
20. Go to page 397 (421 of 575) of the ebook Organic Chemistry Demystified and
copy and paste into a Word document the first sentence of the paragraph titled
“META-DIRECTING GROUPS.” From the Word document, copy and paste
the URL (Web address) of the citation into the answer box.
21. How many citation formats are available in ebrary? _____
22. Using either the “All Words” or “Any word” option on the “A to Z list of
eBooks, how many results do you get searching on the term “textbook”? (Do
not type the quotation marks when typing the term in the search box.) ______
23. In the “A to Z list of eBooks,” click on the letter “H” under the “Browse
eBooks by Title” option. How many eBook titles start with the letter “H”?
_____