The National Academies Press Free E-books Collection as a Resource for Medical Libraries

摘要

The National Academies Press (NAP) makes more than 4,000 medical and scientific titles freely available as electronic books, either as HTML text to be read on the web or as PDF documents to be downloaded. This article describes the NAP collection and interface, with attention to the process of searching, reading, and downloading titles, and special features of the NAP site. It finds the NAP collection to be an excellent resource for medical and scientific researchers and librarians, with an adequate search interface and specialized tools.