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How to request a book using our postal loan service

We have now extended the postal loan service to all students and staff. To order books, first do a search in the main Library catalogue: https://le.ac.uk/library Once the search results loads, login to your account if you have not already done so (top right, using IT username and password)   Then click on the title of the book you want. In the new details page, click on ‘Request’. (You will also see an option to request a digitisation of a chapter.) Fill in the details as appropriate and then choose REQUEST, which sends the details to our team.   If you have any questions, please email us on library@le.ac.uk   

Finding Health & Medicine Research from around the World

When looking for health and medicine research it is very easy to stick to the well known databases. However, they don't always cover research from all countries, so if you want search in a more diverse range of databases here are some others you could try: Global Index Medicus "The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information." African Journals Online "African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is an online service to provide access to African-published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship." SciELO Citation Index "Provides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and