Medicine & Health Research Resources
Journal Article Databases | Reference Sources | Online Journals | Consumer Health Guides | Associations & Organizations | Web Guides & Other Resources
Oberlin College Student Health & WellnessJournal 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