John, Thank you for your response. I should have been a little clearer in my original post. I was posting the question on behalf of one of my students. In the course that I teach I have chosen to not use a required textbook. I list several recommended texts, including yours. Many of the students do in fact buy the texts. However, many use the texts I have reserved in our school's library. Since our library is closed, I wondered which current texts had e-versions so that the students could buy those and have access immediately. I was also wanting to direct our library to purchase e versions to prevent this kind of bottleneck from ever happening in the future. I am familiar with all of the common physical textbooks, but, not so for the electronic versions. I wondered if there were particularly good electronic versions. Thanks. Tom Tom Wells BSc, MEd, MLT, ART Faculty Medical Laboratory Science School of Health Sciences SW03-3088 (604) 412-7594 BCIT
From: John Kiernan <jkier...@uwo.ca> Sent: March 25, 2020 11:12 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Tom Wells <tom_we...@bcit.ca> Subject: Re: On-line references CAUTION: This email originated from outside of BCIT. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello, Tom. Some old classics are there for free, most notably JR Baker's "Principles of Biological Microtechnique" (1958), but almost anything more recent has to be bought. There are plenty of cheap older editions of histotechnology books on sites like AbeBooks. Check it out for the last edition of Pearse's Histochemistry! I was amazed. Even the latest editions of books in our field cost only about $100 from the publisher and most are good for several years. Compare this with the price of a few drops of an antibody or (more realistically) a staining machine in which you must only use the liquids sold by its vendor. John Kiernan = = = ________________________________ From: Tom Wells via Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu>> Sent: 25 March 2020 14:34 To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu>> Subject: [Histonet] On-line references Given that our Institute's library is closed due to the pandemic, is anyone aware of on-line versions of Histotechnology/ Histochemistry textbooks? Thanks. Tom Tom Wells BSc, MEd, MLT, ART Faculty Medical Laboratory Science School of Health Sciences SW03-3088 (604) 412-7594 BCIT _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.utsouthwestern.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fhistonet&data=02%7C01%7CTom_Wells%40bcit.ca%7C97a1afc359f94487995c08d7d14c887c%7C8322cefd0a4c4e2cbde5b17933e7b00f%7C0%7C0%7C637207999235053236&sdata=WS7oM8YSxGc65OPxcY%2BaZrRTRA%2Bmn7nkiw1GjRKiPvw%3D&reserved=0> _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet