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This post will cover certain issues , doctors always face regarding searching for medical books :

1. How to perform a search for medical books ?!
2. What are the tools and  Services for that  ? 
3. Where to search ?!
4. What Are the medical books search engines available ?!

How to perform a search for medical book ?!

Medical books are just like any other book , have certain details and fields should be considered when searching for a book :

1. Books Title ,
2. Topic ,
3. Category ,
4. Author ,
5. Publisher ,
6. ISBN ,
7. Edition . 

Tools and  Services for searching for medical books :

• Search engines ,
• Books search engines ,
• Internet libraries and books indexing .
• Educational ( edu ) libraries .

If you are looking for eBooks for downloads :

• P2p ” Peer to peer ” file sharing networks . using softwares like ares , Sharezaa , eMule , Limewire .
• Torrent . Using torrent tracker , indexing and portals or jump in to torrent search engines .
• Some of blogs are great sources for indexing medical books in PDF format along at filesharing services as Rapidshare and Megaupload .
• searching file sharing services as Rapidshare and Megaupload .
• Some of services which index medical books and act as a search engines for them as gigapedia .

Where to search ?!

1- Books  Search engines :

• Google Books search engine : which is a beta service for searching books ( all kind of books ) , where you can browse the result of search ( books ) online .

• Bookfinder.com : which as its title tags describe the service ” 150 million books , 1 search engine. ” . you can search for books in other 5 languages along with english . amazing thing in here that you can search for new/used books – textbooks   and compare the prices as well . The company has a network of books search engines in other languages . JustBooks.de , JustBooks.co.uk  , JustBooks.fr  , JustBooks.nl .

• Abebooks.com : a book indexing and search engine , where you can browse for books under certain category or search for a book with its ( ISBN , Author name , Title , or keywords )

• The Online Books Page  : a searvice from the library Universty of Pennsylvania http://www.upenn.edu/  . 

• e-library.net : is an online libaray and books catalog . with medical section which contains few medical books . 

2-Medical Books search engine :

• Medicalndx.com is an old medical service which considered an old school medical search engine , where you can seach for news , medical events , treatment , diganosis , …. along with medical books search .

• Medicine at Abebooks.com : which an amazing indexing of medicl books under popular medical categories .

• Gigapedia : High quality medical , and scientific books indexing and searh engine service for download , search , and browse ebooks . 

• ebooksbay.org : is an eBooks search engine and indexing service . which has a medical section . 

• eBookee . which is a books portal with a medical section , it provide a download links for the medical books on free file hosting services .

3-General useful tools and services  :

• Pdf-search-engine.com : is an oustanding search engine which search inside PDF books . 

• ebdb.net : is an eBooks search engine . 

• Searchebooks.com : eBooks search engine .

• Pdfse.com : is an eBook search engine which powered by google search api .

• ebook-engine.com another ebooks search engine . 

4-Medical blogs which index medical ebooks for download :

I wrote several articles about those blogs in here in series , here is the links :

1. First series ,
2. 2nd series ,
3. 3rd post ,
4. 4th series .

5-Search tools for medical books :

• P2p Networks applications : Ares , Limewire , eMule , Shareaza . 

• Torrents search engines : Torrentz.com , Torrentscan.com , Torrentscoop.com , Btdig.com , Torrent-finder.com .

• Zoozle.org : which cover the search in eMule files , Torrent , Rapidshare . 

• Searching the free file hosting services
  :

1. Rapidlibrary . which search in Rapidshare uploaded files .  Read more here .
2. 4 Megaupload : which search in Megaupload files library . 

Hamza Emadeen Mousa .