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

This version of Medline, from EBSCOHost, indexes medical literature from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, with linking to full-text online for our subscriptions (not always provided when you search Medline on PubMed). Use the publication date limiting options to help refine your results to an appropriate time period.

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

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"
• DrugWatch.com certified with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information
• 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
• WebMD.com

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
• 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