Access eBooks: UKHSA Knowledge and Library Services
Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) provide access to a wide range of eBooks to UKHSA staff.
Find eBooks
You can find eBooks by:
- using Discovery Search via myAthens to search for a specific title
- browsing the KLS library catalogue
- using the resources list in MyAthens to browse the collections detailed below
BorrowBox (UKHSA staff only)
BorrowBox contains eBooks and audiobooks on:
- wellbeing
- learning and development
- popular science
You can also access some newspapers and magazines including New Scientist.
Accessing BorrowBox
Access UKHSA BorrowBox on your computer or use the BorrowBox app on your mobile phone or tablet.
To read titles on a laptop, install Adobe Digital Editions. Request this from the software self-service catalogue on the IT helpdesk.
Signing in to BorrowBox
When using BorrowBox for the first time, enter your institution (UK Health Security Agency). Your login is your library catalogue login (the login you use for the library self-issue kiosks and to view your loans or renew your books online). Your username is the first part of your UKHSA email address before the @ sign. Reset your password if you do not know it.
BorrowBox from multiple libraries
If you have BorrowBox access from your local public library, you can still use UKHSA’s BorrowBox collection. Log out of the app and log back in with your UKHSA account to access UKHSA content.
BorrowBox privacy information
The BorrowBox Privacy Policy governs the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by the service.
GIDEON guides (UKHSA staff only)
The GIDEON eBooks cover infectious diseases and microbiology.
The ‘disease series’ summarises the status of individual or related infectious diseases worldwide, with distribution maps and images.
The ‘country series’ summarises infectious diseases for each country, including vaccination schedules. This includes Infectious Diseases of the World, showing worldwide disease status.
View GIDEON eBooks in the library catalogue.
Publisher collections
These can be accessed from the resources list in MyAthens.
Springer Nature eBooks
Includes chapter-level access to tens of thousands of eBooks published by Springer Nature.
This includes the Springer Protocols Handbooks, which provide step-by-step laboratory methods and protocols across the life and biomedical sciences.
Oxford University Press
Includes major titles such as:
- Oxford Public Health and Epidemiology
- Oxford Textbook of Medicine
- Oxford Textbook of Global Health
Taylor and Francis
Offers eBooks on topics including:
- data science
- statistics
- infectious diseases
- pollution
- health communication
OVID eBooks
Over 270 eBooks are available.
Sage Research Methods (UKHSA staff only)
Provides eBooks covering research methods, statistics, and evaluation.
ScienceDirect Focus Collections (UKHSA staff only)
Thousands of eBooks including book series, major reference works and textbooks.
Subject collections:
- agricultural, biological and food sciences
- biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
- biomedical science and medicine
- environmental sciences
- health sciences
- immunology and microbiology
- pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutical sciences
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