Medicine & Health Research Resources
Journal
Article Databases | Reference Sources | Online
Journals |
Consumer Health Guides | Associations &
Organizations |
Web Guides & Other Resources
Oberlin College Student Health & Wellness
MEDLINE (OhioLINK Interface) This search interface provides good access to online journals for which we pay a subscription (which is not always the case when searching MEDLINE via PubMed).
MEDLINE via PubMed The public version of MEDLINE, including GenBank, nucleotide, protein structure & genome databases.
Entrez cross-database search page (NCBI) Search Protein, Structure, Nucleotide, Genome databases plus other PubMed databases with a single search
SCIENCE CITATION INDEX (ISI Web of Knowledge)
other Medicine and Health Databases (OhioLINK list)
Reference Sources (with call numbers for the Science Library Reference Collection)
- Cecil Textbook of Medicine RC46 .C423
- Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Molecular Biology R 121 .J86
- Conn's Current Therapy RM 101.C87
- Encyclopedia of Cancer RC 262.E558
- Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases RC 112 .T87
- The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine RC 41.G35
- Medterms.com. medical dictionary sponsored by MedicineNet.com
- The Merck Index : an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals RS 51.M4
- The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy RC55.M4
- The Merck Web site: including older editions of the Merck Index and Merck Manual online
- Physicians' Desk Reference RS 51.P5
- State Health Facts Online The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary R 121 .J86
Online Journals (a very selectivet list)
PLoS Medicine Public Library of Science - Medicine
PubMed Central dozens of open access journals
BioMed Central a subset of PubMed
HighWire Press Stanford University -- "HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 750,000 free, full-text articles online." (as of November 2004).
JAMA full-text online 1998 to present; older issues are in the library's stacks
The Lancet full-text online 1995 to present; request older articles through ILL
Other online journals to which the library subscribes are all fully cataloged on OBIS; choose periodical title search for quickest access.
See also OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center with links from full-text articles to the ISI Citation Databases.
The Electronic Journal Finder is another useful guide to online journals accessible from Oberlin, through publishers' agreements with various database providers.
AllRefer
Health "Comprehensive and credible health information on
more than 4000 topics"
Healthopedia.com
"Unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted
sources"
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
MedlinePlus
a public service of the National Library of Medicine and National
Institutes of Health
OncoLink U. Pennsylvania
Cancer Center
Virtual Hospital University
of Iowa
Associations and Organizations
American
Cancer Society
American Medical Association
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
National
Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations
National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI)
National
Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer.gov
National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Library of Medicine
(NLM)
Healthfinder
maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
HealthGate online source
for health, wellness, and biomedical information
HealthWeb a collaborative project
designed to provide organized access to health-related Internet resources
Martindale's
Health Science Guide
Other Resources
AIDS
info formed by the merger of the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Information
Services and the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service
AIDS
Service Johns Hopkins Univ
Atlas
of the Human Body sponsored by the American Medical Association
ATSDR:
toxicological profile information sheet (The Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry)
CDC
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
Disability
Resources.org a guide to disability resources on the internet
Integrated Medical Curriculum
Medical education materials online; free member registration
Medscape "The online
resource for better patient care."
Nutrition.gov Internet portal
to hundreds of nutrition & health information Web sites produced
by the federal government
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