The VCU Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of more than 150 electronic health sciences books from multiple publishers through the new R2 Digital Library. The new collection provides access to digital books from the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health. In addition, each individual title is cataloged and linked from the VCU Libraries Catalog. The R2 Web site can be browsed by category or discipline, and keyword searches can be performed across the entire collection of books. Users can create a personal account to save images, searches, references, and other files. Bibliographic citations can be exported to RefWorks and titles can be linked from Blackboard courses. Other features include a drug index of concise information from mobilePDR and the ability to e-mail sections of content. Titles from key health science publishers are available, including American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Publishing, F.A. Davis, McGraw-Hill, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Springer, and many others. Electronic book collections such as the R2 Digital Library are indicative of future publishing trends in Science, Technology and Medicine disciplines.
The R2 Digital Library will be celebrated as the 2,000,001st addition to the VCU Libraries during VCU's 2,000,000th volume ceremonies on October 2, beginning at 2 p.m. in Cabell Library. The event will be simulcast at Tompkins-McCaw Library on the MCV Campus.