A great place to find background sources. You can filter your search results to the "Resource Type" of books, ebooks, and/or book chapters which will likely have great in-depth overviews of topics you're interested in so that you can learn more about them and decide a specific direction for your research.
Optometry Handbooks
Search the Library Search Box by the title of the book to find Optometry handbook or visit the Optometry Books & Ebooks page for a lit of popular titles.
UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 14 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references, and a drug database. Its physician editors and authors review and update the content continuously. UpToDate includes treatment recommendations based on the best medical evidence, which are kept current as new studies are released and practices change.
ClinicalKey provides access to medical and surgical content including access to over several hundred e-books, e-journals, videos, images. This collection includes: emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine essentials, ophthalmology, pediatrics, and psychiatry.
AccessMedicine provides full-text access to over 95 e-textbooks, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, drug monographs, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, custom curriculum tool, and patient education handouts.
NOTE: In order to get access to study tools and review questions, you must set up a MyAccess account. To access these tools off campus, the account must be renewed by logging in on campus every 90 days. To learn more, read About MyAccess
AccessPharmacy provides full-text access to over 50 e-textbooks, updated content, drug monographs, interactive self-assessment, case files, cusom curriculum tool, and patient education handouts.
NOTE: In order to get access to study tools and review questions, you must set up a MyAccess account. To access these tools off campus, the account must be renewed by logging in on campus every 90 days. To learn more, read About MyAccess
Facts & Comparisons® eAnswers is a source for drug information for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, and provides drug information, interactions, herbal information, and patient medication handouts.
Lexi-Comp specializes in the development and distribution of clinical information regarding diagnosis, drug therapy, and patient counseling to students and healthcare professionals.
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Micromedex contains reference information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. Micromedex is to be used by Pacific University faculty and students for instructional purposes only and is not to be used in a clinical setting.