[Histonet] On-line references

[Tom Wells]

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

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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
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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

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