Medicine & Health Research Resources

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Journal Article Databases | Reference Sources | Online Journals | Consumer Health Guides | Associations & Organizations | Web Guides & Other Resources

Oberlin College Student Health & Wellness

Journal Article Databases

MEDLINE (OhioLINK Interface)  use this for good access to online journals for which we pay a subscription (access is sometime problematic from PubMed, the public version of MEDLINE).

PubMed includes MEDLINE plus 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

PsycINFO for mental health & psychiatry

Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge)

other Medicine and Health Databases from OhioLINK

Reference Sources

• 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
• Toxipedia.org - free toxicological encyclopedia

Online Journals

• 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
• Free Medical Journals
• 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.

Consumer Health Guides

• 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)

Web Guides

• 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