NCBI Bookshelf: Browsing

Use the Browse feature to find books or documents on the Bookshelf by title or author. In this example, we look for biology textbooks.
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NCBI Bookshelf provides free access to online books and documents provided by the publisher.
The Bookshelf includes systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, textbooks, and reference materials.
It includes works published by the World Health Organization, National Academies Press, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and other authoritative publishers.
The Browse Titles link in the middle of the Bookshelf homepage works a little differently from the search function at the top of the page.
The Browse function is useful to find books by title or by author.
Imagine you are a student just beginning your course in biology, and your teacher has recommended Bookshelf as a good source of information.
Follow the Browse titles link.
On the Browse Titles page, items are listed in order of publication date, with the newest titles at the top.
You can filter your results using the menu on the left of the page.
You can filter by publication type, publisher, and status or latest edition.
The Bookshelf contains books, reports, and other document types.
Let’s filter to Books.
You can also filter by term using the Filter term box above your title list.
Note that this is distinct from the search box at the top of the page.
Let’s browse using the term biology.
We can look for this term in the Title or Contributor or both.
Let’s look in the Title.
The results will be a list of books with your search term in the title.
The results include several textbooks that may be of interest.
Try browsing the Bookshelf on your own, trying different terms and using the filters to see what useful things you can find.