We've just got access to new batch of e-books as part of a collaboration across the Midlands and East region. All of these are on the Kortext platform, and can be accessed with an NHS OpenAthens account. These are just a small selection of the thousands of e-books we have access to, and the complete collection can be searched via OmniSearch.

For more information about our e-books collections, visit our e-books page. You can also download our Kortext e-book guide, or see the video below the list.

The newly added books are:

• ABC of Autism
• ABC of Clinical Leadership
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses at a Glance
• Art Therapy Research
• Assessment in Speech and Language Therapy
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Dramatherapy and Psychiatry
• Dyslexia
• Effective Teamwork - Practical Lessons from Organizational Research
• Essential Theory for Social Work Practice
• Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Nurses
• Introduction to Systemic and Family Therapy
• Low-intensity CBT Skills and Interventions
• Managing Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care
• Managing Change
• Manual of Dietetic Practice
• Mastering Academic Writing
• Medical Statistics from Scratch
• Mobilizing Knowledge in Physiotherapy
• Music Therapy Handbook
• Occupational Therapy Evidence in Practice for Mental Health
• Recovery Through Activity
• Reflective Practice in Nursing
• Report Writing
• Research Design
• Rook's Textbook of Dermatology
• Sensory Integration
• Sensory Integrative Approaches in Occupational Therapy
• Social Work Theory and Practice
• Supervision
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The Bipolar Spectrum
• The Coaching Manual
• The Happy Manifesto
• The Leadership Challenge
• The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry
• The Nursing Associate's Handbook of Clinical Skills.
• Understanding and Using Theory in Social Work
• Values and ethics in social work
• Working with People with Learning Disabilities

Access to information anywhere, anytime, is even easier with our growing collection of e-books. We now have a new collection of 138 titles via Kortext, and these include a number of titles in the 'at a glance' series as well as many other titles covering medicine, nursing, allied health and midwifery.

All of them can be found via OmniSearch using the 'Books' tab (where you can also search all of our other books and e-books) or you can access the Kortext collection directly (click 'Collections' after logging in to see the whole range of books available). Access is via an NHS OpenAthens account.

Titles include...

• Acute and critical care in adult nursing
• Caring for people with dementia : a shared approach
• Collaborative practice in intensive care settings
• Hoffbrand's essential haematology
• Midwifery at a Glance
• Nursing older people at a glance
• Renal nursing : care and management of people with kidney disease

...plus another 131 titles!

You can create a personal account to make it easier to login in future (and to enable you to use the mobile app). Visit the Kortext website, select your institution and login as normal with your NHS OpenAthens account. Logout by using the three dots at the top right of the screen and selecting 'Sign Out'. When the login screen appears again, select 'Forgotten Password?'. Use the email address linked to your OpenAthens account to get a password reset link.

Once you've reset your password, you can login to the website and mobile apps with your email and chosen password.

You can easily access a collection of over 16,000 e-books on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform and these can either be viewed online, or downloaded to a mobile device for access anywhere.

• Access over 16,000 e-books now

To view an e-book online, you'll just need a free NHS OpenAthens account to login and then you can read the whole book.

If you want to download an e-book for offline reading, you'll need to install the Adobe Digital Editions app for Android or  iOS. This is a free app, but does require you to register for a free Adobe ID. You'll also need your NHS OpenAthens account to download e-books to your device.

Our guide to downloading e-books gives more details and also explains how to access chapters of e-books on dedicated e-book readers. Once you've got the app set up, you'll be able to download our e-books to your mobile device for up to 14 days for offline reading. If you need them for longer, simply download them again.

Here are some of the latest books added to the collection:

• Improving Patient Care : The Implementation of Change in Health Care
• How to Listen and How to Be Heard : Inclusive Conversations at Work
• The Resilient Healthcare Organization : How to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout
• Here's How to Do Accent Modification : A Manual for Speech-Language Pathologists
• Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Practice
• Clinical Dilemmas in Viral Liver Disease
• Cracking the Leadership Code : Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders
• Transforming Healthcare Analytics : The Quest for Healthy Intelligence
• Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World : The Need for Increased Reliance among Regulators
• Assessment of Long-Term Health Effects of Antimalarial Drugs When Used for Prophylaxis
• Rapid Expert Consultation on Social Distancing for the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Smash the Bottleneck: Fixing Patient Flow for Better Care (and a Better Bottom Line)
• Managing Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
• Health Literacy and Communication Strategies in Oncology : Proceedings of a Workshop
• Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes : Thriving in the 21st Century
• Framing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Acute Pain : Developing the Evidence

We offer a collection of over 16,000 e-books on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform and these can either be viewed online, or downloaded to a mobile device for access anywhere.

If you want to download an e-book, you'll now need to install the Adobe Digital Editions app for Android or  iOS. This is a free app, but does require you to register for a free Adobe ID. You'll also need your NHS OpenAthens account to download e-books to your device.

Our guide to downloading e-books gives more details and also explains how to access chapters of e-books on dedicated e-book readers.

Once you've got the app set up, you'll be able to download our e-books to your mobile device for up to 14 days for offline reading. If you need them for longer, simply download them again.

If you already have the Bluefire Reader app installed, this will still work for now.

Did you know that books from Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries’ collection of over 16,000 e-books can be downloaded to your mobile device for offline reading?

If you have an Apple or Android device, download the free Adobe Digital Editions app and create a free Adobe ID to log into it. Then access our e-book collection, login with NHS OpenAthens, find your book, and select ‘Download Book’.

You’ll be able to select the length of time you’d like to download the book for, up to 14 days, but if you need it for longer, you can simply ‘borrow’ it again after 14 days. Alternatively, if you just want a chapter, you can simply download a PDF of a single chapter which won’t expire.

Finding e-books is easy - simply select the e-book tab on OmniSearch.

The 'Rapid' series of e-books are concise and easy-to-read, and ideal for reference or revision, covering the common scenarios that students or newly qualified staff might encounter.

They can be read online or downloaded to a mobile device for 24/7 access, and are available to library members via NHS OpenAthens.

You can access them on our virtual bookshelf, or you can search the whole collection of 20,000 e-books via OmniSearch.