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    Health and Medicine     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books in the Medical Sciences and Medicine: 610-619

    Databases with Full-Text Medical Articles

    • Ebsco Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Includes the following databases: (only some articles are available in full text)
      • Academic Search Premier (multi-subjects)
      • CINAHL (nursing and allied health)
      • Health Source (medical science, nutrition, sports medicine)
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Science Direct
      • Full-text articles from a variety of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals. Includes many health-related topic areas.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of Medical and Health News; a number of Medical and Health Journals; FDC Newsletters; JCAH Perspectives; JCAHO Quality Review Bulletin; and the New England Journal of Medicine (1987 to present).
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • EnergyFiles (U.S. Dept. of EnergyOs Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI))
      • Information on energy science and technology, including biological, medical or psychological research sponsored or performed by energy research organizations.
    • FindArticles.com
      • Search for articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
      • Note: Text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc. Nor does it provide volume, issue, or page numbers.
    • National Academy Press
      • Search or browse over 1,500 books online in science, engineering, health, and technology, including medicine/public health.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Includes articles on the history and philosophy of medicine.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • Science Online - Search Multiple Journals
      • Search a number of journals from 1965 to present in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology; microbiology and virology; immunology; neurosciences and neurobiology; physiology; plant sciences; other life sciences; clinical medicine; medical research; cardiovascular medicine; psychiatry and psychology; physical sciences; and social sciences.
      • Mostly citations with some abstracts and full text.
        Hint: Articles older than 6 months more likely to be available full text.

    Individual Medical Periodicals with Full-text Articles
    Note: Some of these journals may also be available from the databases above.

    • Free Medical Journals.com
      • Links to full-text medical journals. Not searchable.
    • HighWire Press (Stanford University)
      • Full-text science archive. Develops and maintains Web versions of journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences. Cannot search for articles.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text health and medicine journals, magazines, etc. Not searchable.

    Medical Indexes with Citations

    • MEDLINE 1966 to present  (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
      • Note: This is the premier biomedical bibliographic database.
      • Can be accessed through PubMed or Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
      • Citations and author abstracts to articles in about 3800 international journals in medicine, the health care system, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, and the preclinical sciences.
      • Updated weekly.
      • Includes all citations published in the Index Medicus from 1966 on.
      • Hint: Not sure what MEDLINE's journal abbreviations stand for? Find out the journal's full title using PubMed's Journal Browser.
    • PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
      • Search service that provides access to the 7 databases listed below. (It also retrieves complete journal articles from a small number of online journals.
      • MEDLINE
      • PREMEDLINE
      • basic citations and abstracts before being put into MEDLINE
      • citations added daily
      • Can also search the integrated molecular biology databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI):
      • Nucleotide database
        • contains sequence data from GenBank, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and DNA Database of Japan (DDBJ)
      • Protein database
        • contains proteins from DNA sequences in GenBank, EMBL and DDBJ a well as protein sequences submitted to PIR, SWISSPROT, PRF, Protein Data Bank (PDB)
        • can retrieve 3D structure
      • Genome database
        • provides views for a variety of genomes, complete chromosomes, contiged sequence maps, and integrated genetic and physical maps
      • Structure database, or
        Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB)
        • view interactive 3D structure of molecules
        • contains experimental data from crystallographic and NMR structure determinations from the Protein Data Bank
      • PopSet database
        • set of DNA sequences that have been collected to analyse the evolutionary relatedness of a population
        • contains both nucleotide and protein sequence data
    • Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) (NCBI)Victor A. McKusick, et als.)
      • Online version of the book below. It is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders containing textual information, pictures, and reference information. Unlike the book, it also has links to MEDLINE and other databases, and is continuously updated.
      Mendelian Inheritance in Man: A Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders. Victor A. McKusick, et als. 
      • (Call number: R 573.212 M159) Latest edition in Reference; earlier ones in circulating collection.

    • Combined Health Information Database (CHID)

      • Bibliographic information, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. Updated quarterly. Produced by the federal agencies of: the Department of Health and Human Services; the Public Health Service; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the National Institutes of Health.
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • General Science Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes journals and magazines covering astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.
      • Citations only.
      • 5/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 6/1978 to 5/1991; (Call number: Index 500 G326).
    • Index Medicus (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
      • Bibliography of the biomedical literature.
      • All citations from 1996 on are also in MEDLINE.
      • (SUDOC number: HE 20.3612); located in the Government Documents section.
        v. 27 (1986) to present.
      • Abridged Index Medicus: v. 6 (1975) to v. 17 (1986).
    • Infotrieve Article Finder
      • Search over 35,000 scholarly journals in medicine, biotechnology, science, engineering, and law.
      • Citations and abstracts.
      • Searching is free; there is a charge for articles.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
    • Wiley Interscience
      • Search all John Wiley & Sons' journals, 1996 to present.
      • Citations and abstracts only.

    Bioethics

    Medical Dictionaries

    Diseases and Disorders

    Drugs (pharmaceutical and illegal)

    • Drug Information (CoreyNahman.com)
      • Excellent links to drug sites. Good place to start.
    • ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
      • Information on clinical trials, mostly from the NIH, for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
    • Drug Facts (Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP))
      • Fact sheets, data, and street terms for illegal drugs.
    • Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 11th ed. Rahway, NJ: Merck & Co., 1989.
    • Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR). Montvale, N.J.: Medical Economics Company, Inc.
      • (Call number: R 615.1 P578) Anual publication.
    • SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
      • Includes statistics.

    Health Organizations

    History of Medicine

    • History of Biomedicine (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
      • Links to medical museums, libraries and special collections, and to sites on indigenous cultures, Mesopotamian medicine, ancient Egyptian medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Indian medicine, classical Islamic biomedicine, western biomedicine, and history of diseases.
    • Images from the History of Medicine
    • Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Eds. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter. London: Routledge, 1993.
      • (Call number: R 610.9 C737)

    Health Statistics