CRC Press Medical EBooks Now Discoverable on Doody’s Core Titles Platform

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Sept. 3, 2014 - PRLog -- CRC Press, http://www.crcpress.com, a premier publisher of medical content, is now an eBook affiliate on the Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences and Doody’s Review Service™ platforms, providing improved discoverability of the authenticated, high-quality information on the CRCnetBASE (http://www.crcnetbase.com/) platform. Doody's two platforms provide health sciences librarians the information and tools they need to make informed collection development decisions regarding professional level books and software in the health sciences.

“We’re pleased to have our books appear on Doody’s library platforms, giving the healthcare community access to unbiased, third-party professional reviews of CRC Press content” said John Lavender, Senior Vice President of Publishing and Online Products at CRC Press. “Many librarians rely on the service to make collection decisions and our medical content will be more easily available to them.”

Additionally, expert reviews of the authoritative resources from CRCnetBASE (http://www.crcnetbase.com/) are on Doody’s library platforms, giving librarians a trusted resource for making collection decisions.

Doody’s Core Titles defines a core title as a book representing essential knowledge needed by professionals or students in any one of the 120 specialties covered by DCT. A group of approximately 200 independent content specialists and health sciences librarians select the titles that appear in each annual edition of Doody’s Core Titles. The CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com/) catalog includes 3,000 medical, biomedical and pharmaceutical titles.

About CRCnetBASE (http://www.crcnetbase.com/)

CRCnetBASE is an award-winning science, technology and medical eBook platform from CRC Press that features 10 million pages of rich content and authoritative references, allowing librarians to offer patrons a complete eBook collection from more than 12,000 titles in over 350 subject areas that suit their patrons’ needs and their institutions’ budgets. For more information visit http://www.crcnetbase.com

About Doody Enterprises

Since 1993, Doody Enterprises has been serving the collection development and information needs of health sciences librarians around the world with Doody’s Review Service, the premier source of timely information and expert reviews of books/software in the health sciences and, since 2004, Doody’s Core Titles, an annual publication of the must-have titles in each of 120 specialty areas, as well as two free monthly newsletters on aspects of health sciences librarianship and collection development in the digital age. To learn more about Doody Enterprises, visit http://corp.doody.com/corp2012/default.aspx.

About CRC Press

CRC Press is a premier publisher of scientific, technical and medical resources, reaching around the globe to collect essential reference material and the latest advances and making them available to researchers, academics, professionals and students in a variety of accessible formats. CRC Press is a member of Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business. For more information, visit www.crcpress.com

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