vet med studyblr!

here are some websites/ applications/ extensions that i find really useful!

free textbooks+books+articles websites

libgen.is - probably the best website for everything, if you cant find it here then its going to be difficult to find elsewhere. there are multiple links for each book so broken links aren’t a problem.

sci-hub - great for journals and anything academic, just paste in the doi and you'll get the full pdf!

pdfdrive - quality of textbooks (and fiction/ non-fiction) vary but there are quite a lot and uploads are frequent

z-library - for both books and articles (you will need an account for more than 5 downloads or you can just use a vpn)

planetebook - veerryy high quality classic literature ebooks! perfect for lit students who may need an extra copy for annotating or whatever

project gutenberg - mostly fiction and also lots of literature books

manybooks.net - similar to project gutenberg, lots of fiction (but you need an account which is free) 

openstax - high quality high school and college textbooks on social sciences, science, math, humanities, business etc. perfect if you are trying to learn a subject by yourself

chrome extensions

mindful - replaces new tab in chrome and functions as a notepad! you can create a to-list, take notes quickly or use it for writing! it syncs automatically so don't worry about losing anything

grammarly - i use both the extension and website; the extension for catching mistakes when writing and the web app for checking scripts (because it gives the speaking time!) you can also store your writing in grammarly

reader view - increases readability of websites, very minimalistic and  customisable (color of background, font, size etc). a life saver when you have to spent hours on your computer

some other extensions that may be useful: forest (mobile app or extension) to stay focused by planting trees, momentum (extension) replaces new tab with an inspirational photo + to-do list , cold turkey (desktop app) to lock certain websites and applications, 

making lecture notes

onenote - i like how you can have notebooks > sections > pages > which helps with organisation (eg one notebook for each subject) you can also take notes anywhere on the page and drag things around. however, it takes up space in your one drive (which is 5gb)

google docs - google docs/slides don’t take up space in your drive (which is 15gb) and its great for collaboration. 

citation

citation machine - it can automatically generate citations using doi/ isbn/ title in any style you want! i prefer this to citation managers because its easy to check the details and see if anything is missing/ incorrect

mendeley - yes its quick and convenient but sometimes information is missing from the entry so i need to do it manually anyways:/

other popular citation managers are endnote and zotero, and here is a guide comparing the citation managers based on different needs of the user.

writing

hi everyone! this is my first post on this blog! i thought i could share some of my resources because it takes me so long to find textbooks and i hope other people find them useful too!

i have the following vet med textbooks in this google drive link

An Atlas of Interpretative Radiographic Anatomy of the Dog and Cat  (Coulson, A. & Lewis, N.)

Color Atlas of Veterinary Histology (3rd Edition) (Bacha, W.J. and Bacha, L.M.)

Dyce, Sack and Wensing’s Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy (5th Edition) (Singh, B)

Essentials of Domestic Animal Embryology (Hyttel, P., Sinowatz, F., and Vejlsted, M.) 

Guide to the Dissection of the Dog (8th Edition) (Evans, H.E. & De Lahunta, A.)

Veterinary Embryology (McGeady, T.A., Quinn, P.J., FitzPatrick, E.S., Ryan, M.T., Kilroy, D., Lonergan, P.)

Wheater’s Functional Histology (6th Edition) (Young, B., O’Dowd, G., Woodford, P., Wheater, P.R.)