| BIOLOGY |
ePIC - The Electric Plant Information Centre <http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/epic/> : Welcome to the electronic Plant Information Centre (ePIC)
ePIC is a major project to bring together all of Kew's digitised information about plants and make it easier to search. You can use it to pinpoint information of interest in our varied collections, bibliographies, nomenclators and checklists, publications and taxonomic works, as well as links to information resources provided by external organisations. Where further information from Kew is available online, we will direct you to it.
Glossary of Genetic Terms <http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Glossary/pub_glossary.cgi> : Enter a term to search or browse alphabetically. From the National Human Genome Research Institute
| DIRECTORIES |
AMA Physician Select : On-Line Doctor Finder <http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm> : The American Medical Association's Physician Select provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated by accrediting agencies, medical schools, residency training programs, licensing and certifying boards, and other data sources.
| ELECTRONIC BOOKS |
Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body / Gray's Anatomy <http://www.bartleby.com/107/> : The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn. Includes search engine, as well as a browsable Table of Contents.
AUTHOR: Gray, Henry, 1825–1861.
TITLE: Anatomy of the human body, by Henry Gray. 20th ed., thoroughly rev. and re-edited by Warren H. Lewis.
PUBLISHED: Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: 1396 p.: ill. (some col.); 27 cm. Includes bibliographies and index.
OTHER AUTHOR: Lewis, Warren Harmon, 1870–.
ISBN: 1-58734-102-6.
CITATION: Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/107/. [Date of Printout].
ON-LINE ED.: Published May 2000 by Bartleby.com; © 2000 Copyright Bartleby.com, Inc. (Terms of Use).
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines : Resources <http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/> : The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines includes a comprehensive collection of web resources with links to online textbooks, journals, point of care sites, meta sites, teaching sites, and patient resources.
| FOOD AND DRINK |
American Dietetic Association <http://www.eatright.org/> : At this site you can find diet and nutrition information as well as locate a dietician in your area (US only)
| FREE DATABASES on the WEB |
CancerNet <http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/> : U.S. National Cancer Institute’s web site for health professionals, patients, and the public. Provides access to a wide range of cancer information including PDQ (peer-reviewed information summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care and NCI’s cancer clinical trials registry) and CANCERLIT (NCI’s bibliographic database).
Pubmed Entrez / Medline <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi> : Entrez is a search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI. These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE, through PubMed. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. It was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. See also Medline Plus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer health website
| HEALTH and MEDICAL |
9-11 <http://www.9-11.com> : Emergency service search and research tool. A good portal for health related sites.
ACP-ASIM Online - The Web Site for Internal Medicine <http://www.acponline.org/> : American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine portal site which provides news, clinical and education resources, links to web sites and a search engine for all ACP resources including ASIM and ACP Journal Club
AMA Physician Select : On-Line Doctor Finder <http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm> : The American Medical Association's Physician Select provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated by accrediting agencies, medical schools, residency training programs, licensing and certifying boards, and other data sources.
CancerNet <http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/> : U.S. National Cancer Institute’s web site for health professionals, patients, and the public. Provides access to a wide range of cancer information including PDQ (peer-reviewed information summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care and NCI’s cancer clinical trials registry) and CANCERLIT (NCI’s bibliographic database).
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm> : Contains information on Traveler’s Health (disease outbreaks, geographic health recommendations); Health Risks, Prevention Guidelines and Strategies; Scientific Data (numeric and textual datasets); Surveillance; and Health Statistics. Health Topics A to Z provides a listing of disease and health topics found on the CDC Web site, which are added on an ongoing basis.
Clinical Trials Online <http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/> : The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies. There are currently over 4,000 clinical studies listed, with more being added
CliniWeb International <http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/> : CliniWeb is an index and table of contents to clinical information on the World Wide Web arranged by MESH headings. It now allows search terms to be entered in five different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese) and also has direct links to MEDLINE searches via the PubMed system at the National Library of Medicine.
Comparison of Health Information Megasites <http://www.lib.umich.edu/megasite/> : Comprehensive links to and evaluations of medical information sites.
Consumer Health Resources on the Internet <http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/inters.html> : Comprehensive site of evaluated internet resources resources for consumer health information were selected by Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network
Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals <http://www.med.monash.edu.au/shcnlib/dehsj/> : This directory provides information on the electronic versions of key English language peer-reviewed print journals in clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing and allied health. It is designed to assist health sciences librarians manage these resources for their libraries.
Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics <http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html> : Search for web pages or links. See also Alphabetical List of Specific Diseases/Disorders From the Karolinska Instituten, Sweden
Drug Checker <http://www.drugchecker.com/apps/drugchecker/DrugMain> : Search for drugs, add to your list and then check for interactions
Drug, Pharmaceutical, and Pharmacy-Related Sites: A Webliography of Core Sites <http://www.icaap.org/SouthernLibrarianship/> : For those seeking a concise, annotated core list of WWW links on pharmaceutical, drug, and pharmacy-related topics. Presented in the Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship, v.1, no. 1
DrugFacts / Drug Facts <http://www.drugfacts.com/> : Registration is free. This site offers: Drug Information / Interaction Information / Herbal Information / Patient Information / Disease Management
Easy-to-read Health Sites <http://nnlm.gov/hip/easy.html> : From the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, a site listing health sites for the layperson
Emedicine Online Textbooks <http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/onlinebooks@d:/em/ga> : Textbooks can be used free-of-charge by medical practitioners and the public, and allow unlimited downloading of thousands of x-rays, color illustrations, and pictures. The Emergency Medicine book is now complete. Other books will cover: dermatology, surgery, neurology, opthamology, otolaryngology, pediatrics, plastic surgery
Glossary of Genetic Terms <http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Glossary/pub_glossary.cgi> : Enter a term to search or browse alphabetically. From the National Human Genome Research Institute
Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body / Gray's Anatomy <http://www.bartleby.com/107/> : The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn. Includes search engine, as well as a browsable Table of Contents.
AUTHOR: Gray, Henry, 1825–1861.
TITLE: Anatomy of the human body, by Henry Gray. 20th ed., thoroughly rev. and re-edited by Warren H. Lewis.
PUBLISHED: Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: 1396 p.: ill. (some col.); 27 cm. Includes bibliographies and index.
OTHER AUTHOR: Lewis, Warren Harmon, 1870–.
ISBN: 1-58734-102-6.
CITATION: Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/107/. [Date of Printout].
ON-LINE ED.: Published May 2000 by Bartleby.com; © 2000 Copyright Bartleby.com, Inc. (Terms of Use).
Hardin Metadirectory of Internet Health Services <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html> : As the name "meta directory" implies, Hardin MD is a "list of lists" - Its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists. Hardin MD subject pages indicate the length of lists in each subject, making it easy to see at a glance which lists are most comprehensive - These are often not the lists from the"one-stop-shopping" sites, but those developed by people within
Health Central <http://www.healthcentral.com/library/library.cfm> : This site offers searchable medical encyclopedias dealing with general health, pediatrics and sexual health
Healthfinder <http://www.healthfinder.gov/> : Healthfinder® is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
HealthInfoQuest <http://nnlm.gov/healthinfoquest/> : This site contains pathfinders for answering common consumer health and medical questions using authoritative and reliable resources.
HighWire Press: Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries <http://highwire.stanford.edu/> : The second largest free full text archives on the web, HighWire Press offers links to all of their journals in medicine, the life sciences, phsyical sciences and social sciences. Not all titles are available for free, but those on free trial or with partial or full free access are indicated.
IntelliHealth Dental <http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtDNT/WSDNT000/24724/24724.html> : Site dedicated to information about dentistry and oral health. Features include an illustrated guide: The Sequence Of Destruction: Gum disease can lead to bone erosion and tooth loss. Also included is information on: Root Canal, Gum Surgery, Crowns, Fillings, Implants, etc.
Links 2 Health <http://www.thrall.org/health/> : Databases & General Information | Directories AIDS/HIV | Alternative Medicine | Fitness & Nutrition | Mental Health | Medical Journals | National Sites | New York State | Pharmaceutical Information
Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html> : List of libraries compiled at the University of Iowa
Medical Matrix <http://www.medmatrix.org/> : The Medical Matrix Project is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating "full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources." The target audience is primarily United States physicians and healthworkers who are on the front line in prescribing treatment for disease conditions.
Medical Matrix assigns ranks to Internet resources based on their utility for point-of-care clinical application. Quality, peer review, full content, multimedia features, and unrestricted access are emphasized in the rankings. To ensure that the ranks are applied systematically, and as objectively as possible, they are reviewed by editorial board.
Registration is required, but free.
Medical Online Reference Centre <http://www.usc.edu/hsc/nml/oref/> : Developed by the staff at Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California. Includes not only medical (online books, drug info, hospital and physicians, etc.) resources, but also resources of interest to general publuc - government, business, finance, news, travel, career info, etc.
Medical World Search: Medical Intelligence At Your Fingertips <http://www.mwsearch.com/> : Search full text nearly 100,000 Web pages from thousands of SELECTED medical sites. Enter plain English - Medical World Search will automatically recognize terms from its thesaurus in your entry and hyperlink them.
MEDLINE Journals With Links to Publisher Web Sites <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/fulltext.html> : This is a list of the journals in MEDLINE for which publishers have provided links to their journal Web sites. Web-based journals usually contain the full-text of the original article, but this is not always the case. It varies by publisher and journal.
Medscape <http://www.medscape.com/> : Provides up to the minute headline news on healthcare and offers a peer-reviewed general medical journal online.
MedWeb <http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/> : Maintained by the Emory Health Sciences Center Library, MedWeb is a catalog of approximately 12,000 health related web sites. Access is through a simple or advanced search interface, as well as a directory style subject listing.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy <http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/> : Seventeenth edition available on the internet
The Merck Manual of Medical Information <http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/> : Selected chapters of the home edition are available on the internet. Thise include the heart, infections, the eye, and gynecology and obstetrics.
National Electronic Library for Health <http://www.nelh.nhs.uk> : The role of the NeLH is to provide health care professionals and the public (through NHS Direct Online and the New Library Network) with knowledge and know-how to support health care related decisions.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke <http://www.ninds.nih.gov/> : Searchable site for information on neurological disorders
NetPrints : Clinical Medicine and Health Research <http://clinmed.netprints.org/> : NetPrints exemplifies the changing paradigm in scholarly research publishing. The articles posted here have not yet been accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals, but are made available for the benefit of fellow researchers. "Caveat browsor."
NewsRounds - Personalized News for the Business of Medicine <http://www.newsrounds.com/> : A portal of medical news that is customizable to your own interests. Registration is free, but geared towards the United States.
OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) <http://omni.ac.uk/> : OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in health and medicine, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences. OMNI is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.
OSH <http://osh.net> : This metasite is a gateway to occupational safety and health information resources and information.
The Phobia List <http://phobialist.com/> : Alphabetical list of phobias. See also the reverse list, indexed by subject
The Phobia List <http://www.phobialist.com/> : This site presents a comprehensive listing of phobias (fears), both in alphabetical order by phobia name, and indexed by common term e.g. Flying, fear of. The site also includes a FAQ; articles about treatments, naming
conventions, fear quotes
Physicians' Online <http://www.po.com/> : Limited to U.S. physicians (MDs and DOs), physicians-in-training and medical students, Physicians' Online (POL) mission is to assemble the content and communication tools to build the largest and only verifiable online community of physicians. POL offers its member physicians access to comprehensive medical and non-medical resources, secure communications and Web access in a private professional network.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines : Resources <http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/> : The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines includes a comprehensive collection of web resources with links to online textbooks, journals, point of care sites, meta sites, teaching sites, and patient resources.
Pubmed Entrez / Medline <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi> : Entrez is a search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI. These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE, through PubMed. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. It was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. See also Medline Plus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer health website
PubMed Journal Database Browser <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/jbrowser.html> : This tool tracks down medical journal title abbreviations and is a valuable resource for finding what type of articles are published in a specific journal title.The ISSN listing makes it easy to track journal titles in many online catalogs without the need toreproduce full journal titles as entries in those tools.
QuackWatch <http://www.quackwatch.com> : Quackwatch, Inc., a member of Consumer Federation of America, is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.
Researching Medical Literature on the Web <http://www.llrx.com/features/medical.htm> : Good introduction to internet research in the field of medicine and health sciences. Followed by Update to Researching Medical Literature on the Web By Gloria Miccioli in LLRX -- Law Library Resource Xchange
Right to Know Hazardous Substance Factsheet <http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/rtkhsfs.htm> : Developed by the State of New Jersey, Dept. of Health, this site lists over 2000 substances. Common names for these are listed alphabetically
Selected Internet Resources for the Health Sciences Librarian <http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/sar/inet/bigones.html> :
The Stanford Health Library <http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/> : The Stanford Health Library is a free and open-to-the-public consumer health information library
U.S. National Library of Medicine <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/> : Provides access to NLM databases and resources, as well as research programs, news, and hot topics.
Virtual Hospital <http://www.vh.org/> : The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
Yahoo! Health <http://health.yahoo.com/> : This consumer oriented health information portal provides not only links to the web resources in the health category of the Yahoo! directory, but also to news, shopping, physician directories, chat rooms and message boards - all related to health and fitness.
| HUMAN RESOURCES |
OSH <http://osh.net> : This metasite is a gateway to occupational safety and health information resources and information.
| JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, EZINES |
Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals <http://www.med.monash.edu.au/shcnlib/dehsj/> : This directory provides information on the electronic versions of key English language peer-reviewed print journals in clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing and allied health. It is designed to assist health sciences librarians manage these resources for their libraries.
HighWire Press: Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries <http://highwire.stanford.edu/> : The second largest free full text archives on the web, HighWire Press offers links to all of their journals in medicine, the life sciences, phsyical sciences and social sciences. Not all titles are available for free, but those on free trial or with partial or full free access are indicated.
MEDLINE Journals With Links to Publisher Web Sites <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/fulltext.html> : This is a list of the journals in MEDLINE for which publishers have provided links to their journal Web sites. Web-based journals usually contain the full-text of the original article, but this is not always the case. It varies by publisher and journal.
NetPrints : Clinical Medicine and Health Research <http://clinmed.netprints.org/> : NetPrints exemplifies the changing paradigm in scholarly research publishing. The articles posted here have not yet been accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals, but are made available for the benefit of fellow researchers. "Caveat browsor."
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines : Resources <http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/> : The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines includes a comprehensive collection of web resources with links to online textbooks, journals, point of care sites, meta sites, teaching sites, and patient resources.
| LIBRARY CATALOGUES |
Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html> : List of libraries compiled at the University of Iowa
| PSYCHOLOGY |
National Center for PTSD <http://www.ncptsd.org/> : Provides facts, information and resources on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, its signs and symptoms
| REFERENCE AND MISCELLANEA |
The Phobia List <http://www.phobialist.com/> : This site presents a comprehensive listing of phobias (fears), both in alphabetical order by phobia name, and indexed by common term e.g. Flying, fear of. The site also includes a FAQ; articles about treatments, naming
conventions, fear quotes
| TOPICAL GUIDES & SUBJECT BASED META LISTS |
CliniWeb International <http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/> : CliniWeb is an index and table of contents to clinical information on the World Wide Web arranged by MESH headings. It now allows search terms to be entered in five different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese) and also has direct links to MEDLINE searches via the PubMed system at the National Library of Medicine.
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