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Ophthalmic Dispensing: E-books

This the Ophthalmic Dispensing Library Guide. Here you can find help on finding and using the resources the Library provides.

Introduction

The electronic books or e-books provided by the College are electronic versions of printed books which can be read in full text via the Internet.  The College provides access to thousands of e-books  across different platforms.

Using an e-book

  • you are able to read it 24 hours a day 7 days a week, no matter where you are as long as you have internet access.
  • you can read it straight away without waiting, for most of our titles
  • you can easily search the content of an e-book, including the text, table of contents, appendices, and bibliography
  • You can read e-books and online journal articles from any device with internet access.

Here you can see some of the e-books to help support your course that are available from E-book central and VleBooks.

VLE E-books

Ebook Central Ebooks

Anterior eye disease and therapeutics A-Z
Research Methods In Health
Clinical ophthalmology a systematic approach
The contact lens manual a practical guide to fitting
Contact lens practice (3rd editon)
Contact lens complications
Clinical Practice Patterns in Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology
Key topics in ophthalmology.

Using E-books

Once you follow a link to an e-book you will be asked to login. This will be using your College login and password, the same as you use to access Teams or your College email account.

You are then taken to a description of the e-book, where you can choose to read the e-book online or download it for a set period.

If you choose to download you will need to download an app and set up and Adobe ID.

We have different suppliers of e-books you can find more about them here

Finding E-books

There are e-books on many other subjects available as well as the ones above that you can use.

To find these E-Books use the Search box at the top of this page. Type what you want to find, click on the drop-down list and choose E-Books. 

This will take you to the catalogue where you can link through to the book.