Update your WHO/EDM bookshelf

29 January 2005. Related: On the web.

The latest version of the WHO Medicines Bookshelf CD-ROM, containing over 350 medicines-related publications, in English, French and Spanish, taken primarily from materials published by the Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM), is now available. The e Bookshelf covers the Department’s entire field of interest, including:

• access to essential medicines
• rational use of medicines
• national drug policy
• quality and safety issues
• traditional medicine.

Core publications from other sources are also included on the CD-ROM, with the kind permission of the organizations concerned.

For those in areas where Internet access is particularly slow or is unavailable, the Bookshelf was designed to serve as a self-contained medicines information resource. For this reason, a version of the Essential Medicines Library (20 MB) has been included on the CD-ROM. The Library includes the WHO Model Formulary, and the Library interface serves as a seamless gateway to a wide range of useful web sites, such as WHO clinical guidelines and United Nations price information resources, among many others.

The Bookshelf is available free of charge.

Write to EDM Documentation Centre: edmdoccentre@who.int