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Databases
and Websites in Medicine & Nursing  
Citation Guides - correct
format for proper documentation
Consumer Health Sites
- best of
Databases - scholarly materials,
citation indexes and full text
E Books - use free electronic texts when
you can't find the printed book
Government Resources - state, local,
federal and international; also historical texts
Quick Reference -
quality, credible, and timely reference
resources -mostly all are free
Specialized Search Engines -
gateway sites, specialized search engines, Web portals
Web Directories - subject guides to
selective and carefully chosen sites on the Web
Web Resources - selected list of free
sites
Web Search in a Nutshell -
getting started in library research
Subscription Databases Available
Only to the WSC Community
MEDLINE Created by the National Library of Medicine, users can search
abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Authoritative medical
information on medicine, nursing, psychiatry, the health care system, and more. We have 3 different ways to access MEDLINE:
Need help choosing between
the different platforms?
(3 pages, PDF)
Academic Search Complete.
Good general coverage of popular topics in
health and medicine.
Search Tips (PDF) In addition to general academic subjects,
there are separate indexes devoted exclusively
to medical and health topics.
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PsychINFO.
Over 1.5 million records
from 1887 to the present in what is considered to be the most comprehensive international
database of psychology. Includes academic research and practice literature in the fields
of medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, social science and organizational
behavior.
- Biomedical Reference
Collection: Basic. Designed for doctors,
nurses, students, clinical specialists with access to 100 full text journals
covering clinical medicine, nursing, health care system, etc. All 100
journals are also indexed in MEDLINE.
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CINAHLwith
Full Text
- The authoritative resource for
over 1,700 nursing and allied health journals, now with more full text.
- Health Source: Consumer
Edition - food and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Full text for nearly 300
journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as
abstracts and indexing for 180 general health and professional health care
publications.
- MEDLINE
- created by the National Library of Medicine, users can search abstracts
from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. (Search
Tips Sheet - in PDF)
- Clinical
Pharmacology - provides access to up-to-date, concise and
clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard to
find herbal and nutritional supplements, over the counter products and new
and investigational drugs.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source -
provides users with reliable healthcare information covering
nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and
more. This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at
healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at
academic institutions. Provides abstracting
and indexing for more than 690 titles, with over 570 titles in
full-text.
Health
Reference Center Academic
- From InfoTrac Web. Over 2.5 million
articles; can limit to full text and/or peer reviewed.
Academic One File indexes
peer-reviewed, full text articles available in HTML or PDF formats from
the world's leading journals and reference sources. Also has full text
New York Times content back to 1995, hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts from radio and television broadcasts.
Search Tips (PDF)
Access to this database is made possible
by funding from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, and
the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
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S A Illumina. Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts now includes Biology and Medical databases: Biology Digest (1989+), MEDLINE, and TOXLINE (1994+).
Also contains a free
Hot
Topics section - pathfinder guides with overviews, key citations, selected
websites, and extensive bibliographies. Recent topics added are Anthrax, bipolar
disorders, and genetically modified foods. (Medline
CSA Search
Tips Sheet)
PDF
Public Affairs International. Public
affairs and worlds issues with coverage from 1972 to the present. An
index to over 1/2 million articles, books, government documents,
Internet sites and documents from more than 120 countries. Obviously useful for global issues
such as affirmative action, AIDS, ethnicity, climate change, political
persecution, women's rights, war and conflict, etc.
McGraw Hill's
Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology is the complete text
of the best-selling 10th edition and includes
the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. The site also includes weekly news updates on breakthroughs and
discoveries in science and technology resources for students, and links to Web
sites for further research. Full access to 7,100 articles, 115,000 dictionary
terms, and it is updated daily.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library. Available through InfoTrac. Contains full text of standard reference
works:
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed. (2005) 4
volumes
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Cancer (2006) 2nd ed. 2 volumes
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (2006) 2nd ed. 2 volumes
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Medicine (2006) 3rd ed. 5 volumes
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed. (2004) 5 volumes
Dictionary of Nursing - 4th
ed. (2003) from Oxford Reference Online. Over 10,000 entries,.
Accident and emergency,
trauma, public health medicine, and theory and practice of nursing are
all covered in addition to the latest expanding
vocabulary of the nursing professions.
Massachusetts Newsstand.
Provides full text news from
12 Massachusetts newspapers
including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the Worcester
Telegram.
Access to this database is
made possible by funding from the Massachusetts Board of Library
Commissioners, and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
Gerontological
Society of America. - search 3 journals full-text from 2000+ and abstracts
from February 1989+
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Other Web
Resources - selective list of free sites
- CyberNurse
- Practical advice for nurses and nursing students. A well-written and
entertaining site, online since 1997.
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Global Health Facts -
A data bank of world health
information, can sort by country, disease,
condition, program, or demographic
- Gray's
Anatomy - classic edition (1918). Searchable by keyword, table of
contents, or subject. Contains 13,000 entries. Current
print edition in WSC Reference.
- Lippincott
Nursing Center - a
broad-based site offering links to a wealth of information specific to
nurses, including 50 journals - some articles available for a small fee
($6.95)
- Martindale's
Virtual Nursing Center - great number of resources, updated daily.
Covers case studies, online journals, cross-sectional images to learn
anatomy.
- Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - 17th ed., 1999 (online
version of the 18th edition will be posted October 2006)
- Natural
Pharmacist - Physicians and pharmacists offer objective information
derived from scientific studies about alternative therapies. Discusses herbs
and supplements (both positive and negative aspects) so that users can make
informed decisions. Best feature: list of herbs and their interactions with
other herbs and prescription drugs.
- Nurse
Web Search - links to the top ten nursing web sites, search box to
locate Internet resources, other search engines, NLM/NIH resources, focus
sites on specific conditions; also links to general search engines.
- Nursing
Sites on the WWW - from the University of Buffalo Health Science Library
- Physician's
Desk Reference - Disease overviews, clinical trials, drug information
- Specialized
Information Service - a division of the National Library of Medicine,
responsible for information resources and services in toxicology,
environmental health, chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in
minority health
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary -
107,000 medical terms, including 5,000 new terms - complete with
definitions, audio pronunciations, etymologies, hyphenations, images, tables
and animations.
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Student's Guide to the Medical
Literature - created by a 4th year student at U Colorado Health Sciences
Center. Search strategies, interactive glossary, & critical appraisal of
medical literature.
- US Pharmacopeia
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- Whole
Health
MD - a source for alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and
integrative medicine. A searchable site combining the best of conventional
medicine and alternative therapies. Features the Healing Kitchen and
a Reference Library of chronic conditions, supplements, food, and a
glossary.
Full Text
Sources in Medicine:
- High
Wire Press - largest archive of free full-text articles in science and
medicine; assisting in the online publication of 1.5
million free full-text
articles in the life sciences
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Free
Medical Journals - 1,440 journals arranged by specialty or by title.
Easy to use. Companion site for 650
free
medical books mostly in English, but some in other languages.
- National
Academies Press - read more than 3,000 books free online; purchase
chapters in PDF format
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National
Center for Biotechnology Information Medical Bookshelf -
The Bookshelf is a growing
collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a
concept into the textbox. From NCBI with links to
abstracts in PubMed
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Medical Image
Database - images can be browsed by organ system, users can offer
their own diagnosis before learning the particulars of each discrete medical
case case that has been selected by the peer review board. Site also
features an advanced search engine for users who know exactly what they want
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E Books - use free electronic texts when
you can't find the printed book
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Government Resources 
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine - (CAM) From the National Institutes of Health.
"Dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in
the context of rigorous science, training complementary and alternative medicine
(CAM) researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public and
professionals."
Find other government
sites in health and medicine with our
Research Guide to Government
sites
Best of the Consumer Health Sites
Reliable consumer
health & medical information is notoriously difficult to find on the Web,
especially for patients. Check these sites to find quality health
information for your patients, friends, or yourself.
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MedlinePlus - meta site with selective
links which are carefully evaluated and kept up to date. The most popular
section is the drug information in plain English which features
prescription drugs, over the counter medicines, herbs and supplements. Easy
to read materials, interactive slide shows, real time videos of surgery and
more.
- WebMD
- a leading provider of online information, educational services and
communities for physicians and consumers
- Family
Doctor - from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- InteliHealth
- featuring Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information
- MayoClinic
- Excellent source of health information for the general public provided by
the well-respected Mayo Clinic. Also has resource libraries in areas such as
cancer, pregnancy, women's health, etc.
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Medicine Net - .
Doctor-produced by a network of
over 70 U.S. Board Certified Physicians. Easy-to-read,
in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers,
user-friendly, interactive web site.
Owned and operated by WebMD
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Healthy Me - from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Has news,
special self-care sections such as high blood pressure, weight control,
prostate health; also covers current issues such as prescription drug cards.
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Healthline -
medical search engine
offers medically filtered results developed by trained medical personnel.
Formerly Your Doctor.com.
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Revolution Health - "Learning
Centers" by disease/conditions, drug information, community sites, and
"module" based info (diabetes, heart disease, etc.)
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Centers for Disease Control
– Health topics
from A to Z
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Complete Home Medical
Guide - sponsored by Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons
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Search Engines
These
are "gateway" sites: they don't have medical information, but
link you to sites that do. Less exciting than TV's Scrubs, but
more practical.
- All Nurses -
"It's how Nurses surf the Web"
- Medical
Matrix - a free directory of selected medical sites on the Internet.
Each site is carefully evaluated by reviewers with an emphasis on usefulness
to health care practitioners. Free registration is required.
- MedHunt
- from the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation, Switzerland. International,
non-profit portal for medical information.
- MEDNETS -
a medical search engine and portal
- Hardin
Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources-Nursing. Access to comprehensive
sites on health-related and nursing subjects. It is a list of lists, but the best on the
'Net - it leads you to sites containing health information.
- Nursing and
Healthcare on the Net- "A Gateway to evaluated, quality Internet
resources in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health professions, aimed at
students and practitioners." UK site updated weekly with many European
resources.
- Scirus
- the "most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet."
Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to
quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on
the Web, and find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre
prints and journals that general search engines miss. Now also handles
the links to free documents cited in MEDLINE.
- Vivisimo
Velocity for Life Sciences - a unique search engine which meta searches
across many online sources (including Pub Med) and clusters the results.
Takes a little getting used to, but can be helpful for organizing
your search.
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Omni Medical Search - Basic
search (for lay public) and Med Pro version for professionals. Searches Web
sites, images, and medical news sources; also pointers to 72 medical
databases, medical journals, medical associations and more.
Web
Directories
There are excellent subject
directories on the web. that can point you to the best online
resources in specific areas of medicine. These human
guides to the Internet are a great way to find the best of the Web, and
often find sites that can't be accessed by search engines.
The best ones to use in the
medical fields for scholarly
material are:
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Librarians
Internet Index - Provides
a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources. Covers a broad range of
subjects, has both a topical directory arrangement and search capabilities.
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InfoMine - Virtual library of
scholarly Internet resources. Features
well organized access; notable for its
collection of annotated and indexed links.
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Academic Info -
gateway
to freely available academic resources on the web,
with annotated entries. General links, related topics, in
the news sections.
More
subject directories on the web
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