Bookshelf, the books division of the NLM Literature Archive (LitArch) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), is an online searchable collection of books, reports, databases, and other scholarly literature in biology, medicine, and the life sciences. This documentation describes the Bookshelf project and features for accessing the literature and addresses some commonly asked questions.

Contents

• Introduction
  Created: September 30, 2010; Last Update: January 15, 2021.
  • Searching Bookshelf
  • Browsing versus Searching
  • Integration with Other NCBI Databases
  • Copyright, Permissions, and Conditions of Use
  • Information for Authors and Publishers
• Quick Start Guide
  Created: September 30, 2010; Last Update: August 27, 2013.
  • Search Tips
• Browsing Bookshelf
  Created: September 30, 2010; Last Update: February 18, 2014.
  • From the Bookshelf Homepage
  • From the Browse Titles Page
  • From a Publication’s Table of Contents
  • From within a Page
• Searching Bookshelf
  Created: September 30, 2010; Last Update: February 11, 2019.
  • Facets
  • Advanced Search
  • Displaying Your Search Results
  • Links to Related Data in Other NCBI Resources
  • Displaying the Search Details
  • Creating Alerts
  • Saving and E-mailing Results and Searches
• Frequently Asked Questions
  Created: September 30, 2010; Last Update: September 29, 2022.
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • PubReader and PDF format
  • Hard Copy Versions
  • Applications and Submissions
  • Cataloging
  • Citations
  • Other General Questions
• Tutorials
  Last Update: July 1, 2024.
  • Tutorial 1: Browsing
  • Tutorial 2: Search
  • Tutorial 3: Inside a book
  • Tutorial 4: Using facets
  • Tutorial 5: Advanced search
• Bookshelf Queries and Discovery Guides
  Created: July 1, 2024.
  • Discovery by Subject
  • Discovery by Format