Homepage: Books, ebooks and audiobooks

Borrowing books

• Borrow up to 8 books at any one time
• Loan period is 28 days
• Postal loans available for staff not based at Stoke Mandeville

Renewing books

• Books can be renewed via the online catalogue or self-service machine
• You can renew books three times

Returning books

• Return your books in person or via the internal mail
• Return using the self-service machine then place on the trolley

To search for ebooks, we recommend searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.

• Login with NHS Open Athens
• Enter the title or subject of the book and search
• On the left hand side of the screen, you can limit your search to ebooks using the Source Type filter.
• Select your chosen title and then click on Availability
• Click the link for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust staff to access the page.

If you need any help, please email bht.library@nhs.net

Alternatively you can browse by publisher collections such as Elsevier (ClinicalKey) and Oxford University Press (Oxford Medicine Online) or by ebook host platform - Proquest or Kortext - both of which have books from a variety of publishers.

BorrowBox is a free app from Bolinda Publishing where you can borrow a range of e-books and audiobooks that you can access on your mobile device. Titles available include fiction books to uplift, relax to, inspire or simply enjoy. There is also a great range of non-fiction titles to support your wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion, and work-related topics such as leadership, time-management and communication.