Health, Nursing & Medicine Research Guide

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.  |  Find Books  |  Find Articles
Web Sites  |  Statistics  |  Citing Sources 
 

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

Encyclopedia of Public Health.  4 vols.  Reference RA 423 E53 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.  5 vols.  Reference RC 41 G35 1999
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health.  5 vols.  Reference rT 21 G353 2002
Medterms.com---Online medical dictionary edited by U.S. board-certified physicians

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MEDLINE, 1965+
        On the Web through FirstSearch
        On the Web through PubMed, the NLM free public site.
Indexes more than 3,500 journals published internationally in all fields of medicine.  Produced by the National Library of Medicine.  Click here to show journal list.

EBSCOhost databases of particular use for health and medicine are:
       Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL).  1983+
        In print  1977-1997:   General Collection RT 41 C842
Contains indexing and abstracts for over over 1700 current nursing and health journals.  Also provides access to Pre-CINAHL, a companion database featuring rotating bibliographic information about new journal articles as they are being assigned indexed.
        Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition.  Provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.  Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
        Health Source: Consumer Edition.  Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
        Alt Healthwatch. 1990+.  Alternative health database with full text coverage for more than 140 publications.

BioMed Central.  Over 100 open access journals in all areas of biology and medicine.  Free.

General Science Abstracts, 1984+
Contains citations from more than 150 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, physics and more.  Click here to show journal list.

Google Scholar - scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.  Free site.

HighWire Free Online Full-text Articles.  The largest repository of free full-text life science articles, with more than 600,000 free articles online.  From Stanford University Libraries.
 
PubMed Central
Database of about 50 free online medical journals, searchable by keyword.
 
Sport Discus (EBSCO).  Comprehensive coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines provided by the Sport Information Resource Center (SPIRS).  Includes over 650,000 records of monographs and journal articles going back as far as 1800. 

Bibliography of Bioethics.   1975+
        In print only: Ref R 724 B53
Lists English-language books, essays in books, journal and newspaper articles, court decisions, bills and laws, and audiovisual materials concerning ethical, legal, and public policy aspects of health related topics.

Periodicals in Pickler Library in Health, Nursing and Medicine -- Current subscriptions
 

Web Sites 

Search Box for Health Web Sites

Associations  |Government Agencies |  Full-text Resources  |  Comprehensive Sites 

Associations 

American Nurses Association
American Medical Association
        DoctorFinder--- Search by physician name  or medical specialty
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Health education assets library
National League for Nursing
 

Government Agencies

CDC Wonder -WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
        National Center for Health Statistics
        Traveler's Health---Health information for travelers
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Missouri Monthly Vital Statistics---Links to the Missouri Center for Health Statistics focus articles appearing in the monthly publication. Topics include prenatal care, causes of death, teenage smoking, hospital utilization, firearm deaths and injuries, and many others.
National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
        AIDSInfo
        Clinical Trials.gov
        National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Library of Medicine
         MEDLINEPlus ---Consumer health information
National Women's Health Information Center
Nutrition.gov---An Internet portal to nutrition and health information Web sites produced by the federal government.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services        
World Health Organization

Full-Text Resources  

AEGIS---AIDS Education Global Information System, maintained by the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth Hospital of Hungary.
BioMed Central---BioMed Central publishes peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and  medicine
Free Medical Journals---Links to approximately 1,000 medical journals that are available on the Internet in full text for free.
PubMed Central---Database of about 50 free online medical journals, searchable by keyword.

Comprehensive Sites
 

American Hospital Directory - free hospital look-up to hospital websites and basic statistics.
Drug Infonet---Links to sites concerning healthcare and pharmaceutical related topics
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources---Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa.
Healthfinder---A service of the U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
InteliHealth---Johns Hopkins Health Information
MedHist---Guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet.
Public Health Resources on the Internet---Compiled by the Public Health Library, University of California, Berkeley
WebMD --- Portal for a variety of medical information.

Statistics

CDC Wonder -WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
Health, United States.  A series of U.S. government publications.
Health Care State Rankings
Healthy People.  A series of U.S. government publications.
Missouri Monthly Vital Statistics---Links to the Missouri Center for Health Statistics focus articles appearing in the monthly publication. Topics include prenatal care, causes of death, teenage smoking, hospital utilization, firearm deaths and injuries, and many others.
National Center for Health Statistics




Citing Sources