1. Alternative or Herbal Medicine
2. Books--Table of Contents
3. Cancer Information
4. Caregiver Resources
5. Chemical and Drug Information (NLM and Non-NLM)
6. Cochrane Library
7. Conferences and Meetings
8. Consumer Health
9. Consumer Health, Books
10. Consumer Health, Journals
11. Ethics
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13. General Reference Databases with Medical Information
14. Government Health Agencies and Public Information
15. History of Medicine (NLM)
16. Hospital Directories
17. Impairment Ratings
18. Locator Plus: NLM Library Catalog
19. Medical Images on the Web
20. Medical Informatics
21. Medical Libraries Directories and Information
22. Medical Schools
23. Medical Terminology and Dictionaries
24. MEDLINE
25. Mental Health Resources
26. Miscellaneous
27. NLM Database: Subject Specific
28. NLM Fact Sheets
29. Nursing Information
30. Organizations and Associations
31. Palm Guides
32. Printed Books and Journals
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34. Public Health
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The Internet can be a daunting place to locate accurate information on the safety and effectiveness of herbal medicinals. Unfortunately, locating unbiased information on commonly used herbs can be difficult, and the health sciences librarian faces great challenges in getting users to herbal information that is correct and unbiased. Herbal medicine is a minefield of dubious claims and anecdotal information, and the Internet has exacerbated this problem. The majority of herbal Web sites are either geared to selling a company's product(s)or simply providing a list of herbs and their uses with little, if any, information on safety or effectiveness. According to Dr. Varro E. Tyler, one of the most respected authorities on herbal remedies: "More misinformation regarding the efficacy of herbals is being placed before consumers than at any previous time, including the turn-of-the-century heyday of Patient medicines."

However, recognition of the rising importance of herbal remedies in mainstream medicine in the U.S. has led to new efforts to evaluate herbal remedies and to make this information available to primary health care providers and their patients. Thus, in 1992, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set up the Office of Alternative Medicine (now known as the National Center for Contemporary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)) to investigate 'unconventional' medical therapies. Other centers have been established both here and in Europe in an attempt to bring the wealth of traditional herbal knowledge into the mainstream of medical practice. Although librarians should be aware that print publications such as The Honest Herbal, the Commission E Monographs, and the recently published PDR for Herbal Remedies may still be the best convenient source of unbiased information for patients, physicians, and pharmacists, many people now regard the Internet as the place to go to find up-to-date information on medical topics. Acknowledging this, several health centers and organizations both in the U.S. and in Europe are now striving to make high quality peer-reviewed information more readily available via the Web. . . . Resources usually list herbs by their common or scientific name. A common name can be in any language and is usually selected because of what the flower or plant looks like. The scientific name is in Latin, is italicized or underlined, and is "binomial," i.e., it has two parts: the first name is the Genus, a group of closely related plants; the second name is the species, the specific name for the particular type of plant. Plants may have several common names but usually only one scientific name. For example, the scientific name for the most commonly used species of Echinacea is Echinacea Purpurea, while two of its common names are Black Sampson and Coneflower.

A searchable index to the National Agricultural Library's main database.

Pharmacognosy is the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances, or potential drugs of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources.

This discussion group is intended for clinical pharmacologists.

This site specializes in the study of alternative and complementary therapies for cancer prevention and control. Sponsored by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This site provides information on the various botanical compounds currently used in cancer treatment and the plants that produce them.

The most accurate and comprehensive information on the efficacy of herbs is to be found in the German pharmaceutical literature

This webpage, sponsored by the Agricultural Research Service, was compiled by respected ethnobotanist Dr. James A. Duke. Enables one to search plants by chemical, activity or ethnobotanical use. Includes a list of browsable databases specializing in plant ecological ranges (EcoSys), Worldwide plant uses (EthnobotDB), Native American food plants (FoodplantDB), Medicinal plants of Native America (MPNADB), and Plant chemicals (PhytochemDB). Sponsored by the Agricultural Research Service.

Focuses on complementary and holistic approaches to health care and wellness. Full text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

This Cooperative was established to advance the scientific status of herbal preparations and to assist with the harmonization of their regulatory status in Europe.

This comprehensive resource covers upcoming meetings and courses slanted towards alternative and complementary medicine.

This list is a compilation by Dr. James A. Duke of all botanicals that appear on FDA's GRAS list, a list of food additives that are Generally Recognized as Safe for human consumption by a consensus of scientific opinion.

The Herb Research Foundation is a non-profit research and educational organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants.

An evidence-based herbal database with hyperlinked access to the scientifi data underlying the use of herbs for health.

The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of the international published scientific literature on dietary supplements, which includes vitamins, minerals, and herbs. IBIDS is jointly produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Nutrition information Center, the National Agricultural Library, and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

MedWatch (FDA)
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/

MedWatch provides access to the Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System, a searchable database reporting adverse effects and problems associated with the use of dietary products, including herbs.

This is a searchable hypertext version of the English herbal folklore classic A Modern Herbal: the Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with their Modern Scientific Uses, 1931.

Information and links including IBIDS Dietary Supplements database.

This resource provides an alphabetical listing of vascular plants of the world known to be toxic to animals and humans.

QuackWatch
http://www.quackwatch.com/

This unique and useful site is dedicated to the exposure of health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies and is a valuable antidote to the exaggerated claims made by many practitioners of alternative medicine.

This database lists plants found in the Amazon rainforests.

This center is dedicated to providing comprehensive information on alternative and complementary health care practices.

This school is a respected private institution that sponsors classes in plant-based medical therapies.

TOXLINE contains citations from 1965 to the present and covers information on the pharmacological, biochemical, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs, including herbs.

The Medicinal Herb Garden is a comprehensive database of medicinal plant images.

From the FDA's home page select Foods, then from Program Areas choose Dietary Supplements to locate details on DSHEA and to view FDA information on reported adverse reactions and fraudulent claims.

Published patents are an underutilized source of information and offer an important and relatively unexplored source of information and research data relevant to studies in alternative and complementary medicine.

The WHO is gathering information on those herbs that are widely used in primary care settings throughout the world and is promoting programs to establish research guidelines for evaluating the safety and efficacy of herbal products.

An example of book information available to the librarian. Includes information on publishers, book lists, where to find books and media, services for bookstores and libraries, links to related home pages and book ordering information.

CancerLinks is specially designed to make searching the World Wide Web for information about cancer faster and easier. Each special topic in the table contains links providing comprehensive information about cancer, its effects and treatment. The Cancer Links Web Tutorial aims to make using the Internet easier. There is also a Spanish language version available

CancerPage.com offers information on Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lymphoma, Prostate Cancer, Skin Cancer plus others

Site provides recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Federal Government’s principal agency for cancer research. The NCI is a component of the National Institutes of Health, the focal point for the nation’s biomedical research. Information on this site is reviewed and revised regularly by experts in oncology and related specialties and is based on the latest research in the field. Most information on Cancer.gov comes from PDQ, NCI’s comprehensive cancer database. Directory style approach. Contains full-text material by subject. Excellent for consumers. Illustrations, understandable explanations.

CancerWise is a monthly electronic publication containing information about the latest advancements in cancer treatment and research, support programs and activities, and cancer prevention tips, among other cancer news and information. CancerWise is produced by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Maintained by University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Founded in 1994 by Penn cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge.

A comprehensive database that provides peer-reviewed information on the latest results in cancer treatment and clinical research. Composed by oncology experts on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care. PDQ is equipped with an advanced search menu, and is an integral part of the Cancer.gov website.

This guide offers you a range of suggestions to make caregiving easier and more successful.

Caregiver Resources: Caregiving may be one of the most important roles you will undertake in your lifetime.

Implementing the National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP)

Information about Services in Your Community

2001 Fact Sheet on family Caregiving
http://www.aoa.gov/may2001/factsheets/family-caregiving.html or
http://www.aoa.gov/may2001/factsheets/family_caregiving_color.pdf

For information on the implementation of the NFCSP in a particular state, contact the State Unit on Aging.

Good starting place for a drug or chemical search. Provides synonyms. A free, web-based search system that provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM . Numerous chemical synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other databases containing information about the chemicals. The database contains over 349,000 chemical records, of which over 56,000 include chemical structures, and is searchable by Name, Synonym, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and Structure. This database requires the Chime plug-in loaded on your computer to search the structures. If you cannot load it, search ChemID above that does not include structures. ChemIDplus is part of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) TOXNET database system website.

Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System - carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). CCRIS is an integral part of the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET database system website.

From Gold Standard Multimedia. Paid subscription required.

Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center is a bibliographic database located in the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET website - Current and older literature on developmental and reproductive toxicology.

Includes details from package inserts and consumer pamphlets for many drugs, links to manufactures' sites and an "ask an expert" section.

Provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language. Monographs are organized into the following sections: Brand Names commonly used in both the United States and Canada, Description, Before Using This Medicine, Proper Use of This Medicine, Precautions, and Side Effects. USP Drug Information is a guide to over 9,000 brand name and generic prescription and over-the-counter drug names. It provides information about side effects.

Updated weekly

Contains genetic toxicology (mutagenicity) test data, resulting from expert peer review of the open scientific literature, on some 3000 chemicals. GENE-TOX is an integral part of the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET database system website.

Hazardous Substances Data Bank - Broad scope in human and animal toxicity, safety and handling, environmental fate, and more. Scientifically peer-reviewed. HSDB is a database located in the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET website

Integrated Risk Information System - data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of human health risk assessment, focusing on hazard identification and dose-response assessment. IRIS is acomponent of the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET database system.

A peer-reviewed database aimed at medical professionals offers frequently updated information on antibiotics and their proper use. Searchable by diagnosis, pathogen, antibiotic type, or keyword. Free registration is required.

Biodefense and Bioterrorism
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/biodefenseandbioterrorism.htm

Anthrax - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE-MEDLINEPLUS HEALTH TOPIC ON ANTHRAX
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anthrax.html

The National Library of Medicine at NIH has a Medlineplus health topic page on anthrax. Mediplus is the NLM's consumer health information service. It contains targeted links to pertinent information at CDC, other federal agencies, professional associations, media reports, prefab Medline searches, and more.
New and updated consumer health information from the National Institues of Health only, plus announcements and new health topics from the National Library of Medicine's consumer health Web site, MEDLINEplus. To sign up point your browser to: http://list.nih.gov/archives/medlineplus-nih.html OR send a message to: listserv@list.nih.gov Leave the subject line blank and in the body of the message type: subscribe medlineplus-nih your name

Chemical Weapons
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chemicalweapons.html

Smallpox
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smallpox.html

The drug information in this searchable databse is based on ASHP's Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information.

Search for informationabout medicines in development by disease, indication, or drug name.

Features the Top 200 list of drugs prescribed in the U.S.

Extensive array of references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Database runs on the TOXNET Search Engine. contains more than 3,000,000 bibliographic citations concerning the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. TOXLINE does a chemical look up. That is, if the system can identify a term or terms in the query that are chemicals listed in ChemID, the chemical dictionary, it will bring back a set of synonyms and also the CAS Registry number and use that in the query. The system also does automatic searching for singular and plural forms of the other terms. The output is relevancy ranked rather than sorted any other way. Each database allows you to do other appropriate sorts.

Resource for drug standards, drug information, dietary supplements, and veterinary medicines.

Subscription.

Collection of regularly updated, systematic reviews of all relevant randomized controlled trials of health care the effects of health care, maintained by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration (available online with paid subscription). Began in 1992. The Cochrane Collaboration is an international organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and ensuring the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions.

A comprehensive database of continuing medical education conferences offered by institutions and accredited by the ACCME. Offers customized searching to fit schedule, travel plans, and research interests.

An extensive list of conferences and CME offerings hosted by the Mayo Clinic at locations across the U.S.

Searchable directory of international medical conferences. Over 7,000 upcoming medical conferences in 100 countries listed. Free registration required.

Meetings and conferences by date, subject, and continent.

A listing of meetings and conference from the Physician's Guide to the Internet.

Consumer Health Information (CHI) is defined as any information that enables individuals to understand their health and make health-related decisions for themselves or their families. This includes information supporting individual and community-based health promotion and enhancement, self-care, shared (professional-patient) decision making, patient education and rehabilitation, using the health care system and selecting insurance or a provider, and peer-group support. CHI encompasses a wide range of information, essentially the "who, what, how, why, where, when and how much?" of health information. The librarian's role is to assist. People need good information if they are to make decisions about how to maintain their health and where, when, and how to use health care services. An informed consumer is essential to an improved health care "system." An important aspect of CHI is community health. Many issues related to health happen at the population level, e.g., the spread of communicable disease or the impact of temporary environmental hazards. “Patient Information” is not the same as consumer information and is used very differently in the health care field. Patient information is specifically meant for a particular patient (or family) with a diagnosed condition, intended to help treat a condition. In some locations, physicians actually write a prescription for information for the specific condition. Patients may bring these into your library. Consumer information is meant for general information to maintain good health practices.

Contains four categories: Human Health and Disease Directory, Organizations and Sources, Business and Finance of Health, and Reference Sources allowing a key word search of the database or limited to a section. Links to many other sites that collect links on various topics.

Reports on a wide range of topics from specific health diseases to treatment and research.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Practice Guidelines. This website also houses 19 clinical practice guidelines produced between 1992-1996 by the former Agency for Health Care Policy and Research . Significant to clinicians when they are available in their specialty.

Mission: The American Medical Association Health Information Web site is dedicated to improving the health of Americans by enhancing and strengthening the doctor-patient relationship through active collaboration and participation by doctors and patients as partners in the delivery and receipt of health care.

Prepared by the AMA's library staff, this site has hundreds of links to sites that meet certain AMA criteria such as aesthetics, attribution and others.

Maintained by the American Medical Association. Offers guides for physician selection and also links to support groups and patient information. Information on 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated by accrediting agencies, medical schools, residency training programs, licensing and certifying boards, and other data sources.

Geared toward patients, librarians, educators, and nurses, this comprehensive portal provides links to the best online sources of evidence for consumers. Sections include EBM basics, types of evidence, research methods, statistical terms, special considerations, and evidence for consumers.

AskDrSears.com is intended to help parents become better informed consumers of health care. The information presented on this site gives general advice on parenting and health care.

Maintained by the University of South Florida Shimberg Health Science Library.

Quick access to the biomedical, scientific, and health journal literature referenced in the New York Times.

Listings with excellent annotations, from a collaboration of medical school libraries in the Pacific Southwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Part of the WWW Virtual Library, a catalog using Library of Congress classification.

Allows one to calculate his or her BMI (Body Mass Index) based on body weight and height. English and Metric versions are available, along with links to health promotion websites. Hosted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Nexcura offers this free, interactive, decision-support tool for patients via the Lance Armstrong Foundation Website. Users complete a confidential questionnaire to create an individualized report that details risks and benefits of therapies, as well as questions to ask the physician. Personalized evidence-based treatment plans are available for twenty cancer types. Please note that disclosing personal information is optional when using the free Cancer Profiler tool. Sponsored by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Nexcura offers this free, interactive, decision-support tool for patients via the Lombardi Cancer Center Website. Users complete a confidential questionnaire to create an individualized report that details risks and benefits of therapies, as well as questions to ask the physician. Personalized evidence-based treatment plans are available for twenty cancer types. Sponsored by the Lombardi Cancer Center website of Georgetown University.

See previous annotation. On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Websites.

The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of the food supply.

A clinical trials listing service listing many clinical II and III trials by state.

A non-profit multitype library cooperative membership organization devoted to the sharing of resources among all types of libraries in Central Florida. CFLC is one of 6 regional library networks in Florida.

Searchable by topic area, this site contains more than 400 consumer synopses of Cochrane systematic review abstracts (with links to the original abstracts) to help clinicians and consumers make informed health care decisions. A glossary of health care research terms is also available.

From the Nashville Health Page by Tennessee Online, a commercial internet service provider.

The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section is an official section of the Medical Library Association, a network of Health Information Professionals.

A Web-based database produced by the health-related agencies of the federal government such as NIH and CDC and is updated quarterly. It can be searched by topic, disease or condition. There are lists of health promotion and education materials.

Developed at Oregon Health Sciences University. Provides a table of contents and index of clinical information on the Web. Searchable by Medical Subject Headings and institutional types.

Cyberdiet features peer-reviewed nutritional information, itneractive tools, and discussion groups.

Includes many useful links to medically related information.

Since 1996, this U.K. organization has worked to empower consumers and providers to better evaluate online health information. The full DISCERN instrument teaches how to determine a publication's reliability, and the Quick Reference guide lists key points to consider while researching treatment options.

Web site by Dr. C. Everett Koop. Excellent site.

With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 165 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for more than general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advise, diagnosis or treatment. Full text content for some journals and magazines may be delayed due to publisher restrictions. Refer to individual journal or magazine descriptions for specific embargo periods. A service of TexShare.

Includes a general library tool for many topics, including medicine.

This site provides free, up-to-date, evidence-based information. Searches can be restricted to a consumer option for information from online textbooks and a growing collection of consumer treatment guidelines.

This site has been established by the Florida Medical Association to bring Florida's Medical Community Online.

Current information on drugs, foods, medical devices and cosmetics.

FNIC, located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), collects and dissemate information about food and human nutrition. Included Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 5th ediction, 2000 http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dga/index.html .

Includes consumer health articles, links to external resources, and Interactive tools such as a drug guide and the HealthAtoZ E-Mate, a personal health calendar and reminder service. The news section is updated with a new feature article every two weeks.

Site searches for other medical sites, hospitals and support. Medhunt searches HON's database and lists the first 10 reviewed sites and 10 nonreviewed sites.

CDC has published Health. United States. 2002 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans, the 26th edition of the annual report on the nation's health. This report contains 147 trend tables organized around health status and determinants. Included are issues such as health-care use, health-care resources, and health-care expenditures. Disparities in health by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status are presented in several tables.

A commercial site maintained by the Orbis Broadcast Group.

One of the many consumer sites that look increasingly similar, featuring personalized interactive tools, risk assessments, etc. Notable for the presence of the popular Dr. Dean Edell as well as medical librarian Rochelle Schmalz and other interesting columnists.

U.S. government's links to dependable consumer health information. Maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Web is an excellent means for conveying health information, but standards for insuring quality are still evolving. To address this problem, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created healthfinder, which provides links to a vast array of health-related sites. On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Websites.

Provides easy access to current, accurate answers to your health questions. Health InfoNet is a consumer health information service of the Jefferson and Shelby County Public Libraries in collaboration with UAB Lister Hill Library.There is also a Spanish language version available.

Available for those working with the public to answer questions. HEALTHINFOQUEST was designed to provide pathfinders and examples for public librarians in meeting the health information needs of their clientele. The mission of HEALTHINFOQUEST is "to encourage users to experience firsthand the excitement of an information-seeking process and gain confidence in their ability to retrieve reliable health and medical information from the World Wide Web. HEALTHINFOQUEST pathfinders are designed to model the intuitive nature of reference work." This project was a joint effort of the king County Library System, and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, with funding from the National Library of Medicine.

HEALTHINFOQUEST article
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/sea/publications/seacurrents/2000/2000n6.html

Looking for good, reliable medical information on the Internet without having to sort through 1,000s of sites with bad information? Then visit HealthLink Plus, PLCMC's newest web site. The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County sponser this web site. HealthLink Plus is a comprehensive consumer health web site, that covers such popular topics as General health (including Children's health), finding healthcare providers on the Internet, Wellness, Nutrition, Mental Health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and numerous medical research tools. Please take a look at this site and share with us any comments or feedback you may have. A Spanish language version is also available. FYI, this website has a direct link to chat access (clearly visible from the homepage)!

Healthology's content is customizable for any website. Helps build user base. Interactive programming combined with the largest network of doctors online. Interactive programming created by a nationwide network of doctors. A Forbes "Best of the Web".

A commercial site created by Medical Strategies, Inc. Focuses on information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Easy-to-use health specialty categories, maintained by medical school libraries in the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Websites.

Emphasis on alternative medicine, first aid, general family health information, legislative information and news.

Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust (a food issues think tank that promotes healthy eating, sustainable food choices, and traditional food ways) has published the "healthy eating pyramids," a set of unique dietary guides based on worldwide dietray traditons closely associated with good health. Individual pyramids have been based on Asian, Latin American, Mediterranean, and Vegetarian diets. Produced jointly with the Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions.

InteliHealth is an subsidiary of Aetna and is affiliated with Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Ask-the-Doc and Health news are popular features.

An index of consumer health web sites compiled by University of Miami's Medical Library http://calder.med.miami.edu/catalog/subject/patient_information_consumer_health.html

Search for keywords in categories, web page titles, or URLs in our catalog of selected Internet resources.

Locate a doctor, dentist, or chiropractor in your area by specialty. Also includes information for patients and doctors, message boards, and "Ask a Doctor" features.

Listing of facilities certified by the FDA and meeting baseline quality standards.

Science Library College of Medicine University of California, Irvine. Contains multimedia specialized information on over 62,400 teaching files and 136,500 medical cases and Grand Rounds, etc.

Information provided and approved by a cooperating group of medical specialty societies.

By Lee Hancock and Gary Malet, University of Kansas Medical Center, Dykes Library of the Health Sciences. Paid subscription required.

A commercial site produced by Information Network, Inc. Contains information and educational material aimed at health consumers.

NLM's consumer health site. Links to MEDLINE. Includes consumer oriented pamphlets and materials. Includes: Dictionaries-for finding definitions of medical terms, Doctors/Dentists-for finding a doctor, dentist, or other health professional;Hospitals-for finding a hospital or other health facility; Organizations-links to major national groups providing information to consumers; Publications/News-textbooks, newsletters, and health news sources for reading on-line; Databases-for articles and information from other organizations; Libraries-to find a nearby library for health consumers. Includes: United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information (USP DI), Volume II, Advice for the Patient. USP Drug Information is a guide to over 9,000 brand name and generic prescription and over-the-counter drug names. It provides information about side effects, dosing, drug interactions, precautions and storage for each drug. Because the articles are intended for the use of patients, they are written in non-technical language. Select "Drug Information" from the left-hand button bar of MEDLINEplus. Generic and brand-name drugs are listed on alphabetic pages with links to the generic drug record.

You can hear Calvin Jackson's (head of the NIH radio news service) piece, his interview with Joyce Backus on MedlinePlus by downloading the audio through the web site at: http://www.radiospace.com/nihhome.htm.MEDLINEplus is the NLM site against which all of the other consumer health sites will be compared. Compare other sites on this list with MEDLINEplus both pro and con.

On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Web Sites.

MEDLINEplus Spell Checker
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/sea/publications/seacurrents/2001/2001n1.html

**Interactive health tutorials (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html) in MEDLINEplus! These interactive health education resources, from the Patient Education Institute, use animated graphics to explain a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial.

MEDLINEplus has a series of interactive modules for patient education.

There are over 150 (printable) topics in the series, including :

• diseases and conditions, such as diabetes and back pain
• tests and procedures, such as colonoscopy and CT scan
• treatment procedures, such as breast cancer surgery, coronary artery bypass, and prostate surgery

Each module, which takes about 10 minutes to review, uses animated graphics and explains a condition or procedure in easy-to read language. The user can also listen to the tutorial or print the text of each from a PDF file. The modules require a Flash plug-in, version 4 or above, which may be downloaded free of charge. The modules are also available in Spanish (see the yellow link in upper right hand corner)

The tutorials were prepared by the Patient Education Institute (PEI) and modified to NLM's specifications. PEI is a private company located on the Technology Innovation Campus of the University of Iowa.

The tutorials may be accessed directly at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html
Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics, each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. Audio is also available.

Key word searchable with subject categorical listings to medical webpages. A Forbes "Best of the Web". Free registration required.

A commercial site that categorizes, reviews and rates other medical websites.

Internet selections in biomedicine, maintained by Emory University Health Science Center Library. Extensive links to health professional organizations. Emory University School Health Sciences Center Library Resources. Arranged by medical specialty.

Reliable, easy-to-use and concise medical information. Online version is one of the most popular medical sources.

Information on care for the elderly.

Medical information in everyday language

MEL's resources are evaluated for ease-of-use, authoritative sources of content, reliability of access and currency of information.

University of Mississippi Consumer Health Information Project
http://library.umsmed.edu

Vanderbilt University: Information Access for Public Health Professionals
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/publichealth/

Mercer University--PHOENIX Project
http://gain.mercer.edu/phoenix/

University of Alabama at Birmingham--Information Access for Minority or Unaffiliated Health Professionals
http://www.uab.edu/lister/medtrain

George Washington University--PARTNERS: Primary Care Access to Resources, Training, Networks, Education, and Research Services
http://www.gwumc.edu/partners/index.htm

Mary Washington Hospital--Access to Electronic Health Information for the Public
http://answerpoint.org/healthanswers.asp

Medical University of South Carolina--Healthy South Carolina Gateway
http://gateway.library.musc.edu

Emory University--Access to Electronic Health Information for the Public
http://home.mindspring.com/~accesshealth/

Six patient-oriented, clinical practice guidelines (breast, colon and rectal, lung, melanoma, ovarian, and prostate cancer) are available in English and Spanish. Plans are underway to translate all NCCN guidelines for consumers. Access to the treatment guidelines is available through the NCCN homepage by clicking on "Guidelines for Patients"

On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Websites.

NC Health Info offers access to web sites of local health services, providers, and programs serving residents of North Carolina. Users of the site can get information about conditions, diseases and wellness, and find web sites of local health services, programs and providers throughout North Carolina. NC Health Info offers an initial collection of 1555 web sites serving North Carolina citizens.

Maintained by medical and health professional faculty at University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, and Case Western Reserve University. Contains information on specific conditions, news and links to other sites.

NIH Health Information is a directory to many useful, authoritative health links. A single access point to the consumer health information resources of the National Institutes of Health, including MEDLINEplus, NIH Clinical Alerts, and the Combined Health Information Database.

Maintained by the City University of New York, this is a bilingual (English and Spanish) site. Offers access to full text, pamphlet style articles on a wide variety of health topics. On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Websites. NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.

The National Organization for Rare Diseases, Inc. is a federation of more than 80 not-for-profit voluntary health organziations serving people with rare disorders and disabilities. A Rare Disease Database, an Organizational Databasea and an Orphan Drug Database are provided on this site. Fees are charged for full-text reports.

List of health and medical Internet resources. One of six nonprofit multi-type library cooperatives in Florida.

See annotation under cancer sources. On MLA's list of the Top Ten Most Useful Health Websites.

An example of a library consumer health consortia. Link is to the web catalog.

The goal of the Mercer University School of Medicine Library’s PHOENIX Project is to improve the ability of Georgia’s public health professionals to access and locate up-to-date and accurate information so that they can more efficiently respond to the health needs of the communities they serve.

Mission Statement: A member of Consumer Federation of America, to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Founded by Dr. Stephen Barrett in 1969 as the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud. A Forbes "Best of the Web".

For the consumer, the health industry, and the professional.

Includes resources by discipline and disease, government resources, medical centers, medical informatics resources, and on-line journals.

A consumer health Web site from Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Library funded by the Duke Endowment. The mission is to improve the health of individuals and communities in the state by promoting healthy lifestyles. Targets important South Carolina health issues. Features personal stories of South Carolinians who are living successfully with chronic diseases but survived and continue to live healthy, full lives to demonstrate how to manage and control illnesses.

Information about substance abuse treatment and prevention.

Breakthrough research from select Annals of Internal Medicine articles is translated into everyday language. The American College of Physicians provides succinct explanations of studies' purposes, methodologies, findings, limitations, and care implications.

Fledgling researchers, flummoxed physicians, and frazzled consumers will benefit from this exceptionally clear and well-written electronic class. Understandable explanations of study types comprising The Evidence Pyramid can be found in A Guide to Research Methods.

Current information of disease outbreaks and health issues. Info on recommended vaccinations and links to CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program.

A first-stop, rating guide to nutrition Web sites from Tufts University Center on Nutrition Communication, School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

University of South Alabama Biomedical Library. Provides resources by detailed subject area.

WebMD and its companion consumer site WebMD Health provide materials from contracted suppliers as well as some original material from thier own professional staff. Sponsored by WebMD Corp.

A master index containing information on medical conditions with sources for health professionals and patients.

Provides links to sites arranged by broad subjects.

American Cancer Society. Coming to Terms With Cancer: A Glossary of Cancer-Related Terms. 0-944235-36-0 ($19.95) paperback.

American Cancer Society. Informed Decisions: The Complete Book of Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery. 2nd ed. 0-944235-27-1 ($29.95) paperback

Americk of Symptoms and Remedies. Rebus (distributed by National Book Network). 0-929661-52-4 ($39.95)

Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Medical Tests. Rebus (distributed by National Book Network). 0-929661-63-X ($39.95)

Mayo Clinic on Vision. Mayo Clinic, distributed by Kensington. 1-893005-20-8 ($14.95) paperback

Micheli, LJ, Jenkins, M. The Sports Medicine Bible for Young Athletes. Sourcebooks. 1-157071-858-X. ($29.95)(LJ August, 2000)

Nutrition Almanac 5th ed. McGraw-Hill 0-07-137338-1 ($19.95) paperback.

Understanding Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Family. Branden Books. 0-8283-2061-6 ($19.95) paperback

Harvard Health Letter
Harvard Mental Health Letter
Tuft's University Diet and Nutrition Letter
University of California Wellness Letter

American Family Physician
American Journal of Nursing
Annals of Internal Medicine
Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Lancet
New England Journal of Medicine
Patient Care
RN Magazine

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American Psychologist
Diabetes Forecast
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
Nursing

Arthritis Today
Modern Medicine
Physician and Sports Medicine
Prevention
Vegetarian Times
Weight Watchers

The Internet's first and largest site on bioethics, visited (according to Medical Matrix)more than any other bioethics site on the Internet. Produced and supported by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

This CMAJ series is intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice.

Includes topic, cases, and resources useful for teaching medical students.

Previous issues of ALERT, the Florida Health Science Library Association online journal, are available.

An online publishing site for research articles in all areas of biomedical research with full peer review. Free registration required. Submission is online and authros retain copyright. All original articles are published in one of the BioMed Central journals, posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed.

The Free Medical Journals site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet.

HighWire, the Internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries, produces 250 sites online, with many more planned. The electronic versions provide enhanced versions of the information provided in the printed journals. A list of free titles is provided.

An example of book information available to the librarian. Includes information on publishers, book lists, where to find books and media, services for bookstores and libraries, links to related home pages and book ordering information. Majors will supply a packet of information on their services to the class.

Username: USF-1166 . Password: occupy. Username and password are good thru 6/30/03.

Over 40 medical textbooks; some full-text journal articles from more than journals; practice guidelines, and patient education. The current accepted practices of over 50 medical societies and government agencies are available at the click of a mouse when using MDConsult's Practice Guidelines feature. More than 600 peer-reviewed practice guidelines are available online. It is searchable by authorizing organization, by topic or by over 30 specialties. Cross-referenced links to current journal articles on select guidelines are also provided. Allows searching by topic of over 50 online full text journal titles. MDConsult has many other full text resources, i.e. books, pamphlets, links, images, etc.

Paid subscription required

The National Library of Medicine maintains links to publishers' Web pages for more than a thousand journals from PubMed and Gateway. NLM PubMed Central is a developing attempt to link to journals. A few journals offer free full-text on-line access. Some offer free access to selected articles. Many others provide full access to their regular subscribers. Some have other mechanisms for paid access. Policies vary widely. Another source of information about specific journals on the Web can be found within Healthfinder. To locate the name of a journal, try PubMed's Journal Browser.

Consumer health information in 2 versions, text-based or interactive.

An Announcement List for new serials on the Internet. NewJour Archives are available at http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/ .

NLM Newsline (formerly NLM News) is a bimonthly newsletter about current events at NLM.

Published by the National Library of Medicine. Very valuable reference to stay up-to-date on the changes in the NLM databases: PubMed, TOXNET, etc.

A database of information on over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and other periodicals.

PubMed Central is a web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences. It is being developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). With PubMed Central, NCBI is taking the lead in preserving and maintaining open access to the literature in electronic form, just as NLM has done for decades with the printed biomedical literature. We may not have all the answers to this grand challenge, but we invite all journals to join those that have already committed to creating this resource for people all over the world. PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class library in the digital age. It is not, and has no intention of ever becoming, a journal publisher. Access to PubMed Central is free and unrestricted. If you are searching within one of the National Library of Medicine's interfaces to MEDLINE, you may be able to link directly from your search results to the publisher's web site. After you click on the author name, you will see the display that includes the abstract (if one is available). On the top of this screen are buttons for Other Formats ("Citation" and "MEDLINE") and Links ("Related Articles" and a button for the journal, if it is available: for example "NEJM," if you are viewing a citation to the New England Journal of Medicine).

PubMed Text Version available specifically for users who require special adaptive equipment to access the Web and use PubMed. Provides basic PubMed search and retrieval functionality and can be accessed from the PubMed sidebar.

PubMed's New/Noteworthy notices are included in the NLM-Announces Mailing list. To subscribe to this list go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/nlmfiles-email.html

Username: study. Password: tool. Username and password are good thru 6/15/03.

Provides cross-search to more than 43 medical texts including more than 70,000 pages of medical text. Titles include Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 8th ed, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 42nd ed, Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment 16th ed, Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult 11th ed, Mosby's Drug Consult 2003, and the USP DI 23rd ed Vol. 1&2.

Paid subscription required

Virtual Hospital is a medical virtual library designed by the University of Iowa to promote consumer health and practitioner education. Continuing Education courses and medical textbooks are offered.

Dee's Online tutorial http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6609/lexisnexis/lexisnexis.html
Subscription. Some medical information.

User ID: usfl
Password: ebsco

Provides full text for nearly 1,530 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

Provides full text for nearly 1,040 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

Provides full text for over 1,840 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

With the Professional Development Collection, EBSCO now provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

A comprehensive general medical resource on the Internet. Site is an advertising-free medical portal with medical news, a wide variety of online learning resources, and diagnostic tools. Widely used by librarians. Registration may be required to access certain resources

Site contains **Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; Emerging Infectious Diseases; travelers' information; health statistics; and disease, health risks, and prevention guidelines and strategies.

Contains bioterrorism fact sheets, guidelines, notification protocols, news, Frequently Asked Questions, links and more. Includes information about CDC roles and national programs such as the National Pharmaceuti- cal Stockpile and the Health Alert Network.

Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration. Includes Medicare and Medicaid information.

Produced by NIH and NLM as a resource for patients and families.

Includes links to HHS Agencies, consumer, grant and research information.

Includes information on state licensing and professional boards, state health insurance, and Florida medical statistics.

The web site of the ... FDA. This site provides access to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.. and much more. Includes information on human and animal drugs, cosmetics, foods, toxicology, medical devices and radiological health, and inspections and imports.

A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government (includes Federal Register, CFR, US Code full text).

"[A] non-partisan government information port designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online.

This page includes information on Hospital Administration, Health Services Management, Policy, and Research. It is a collaborative effort between the Public Health Library, the School of Public Health, and the HealthWeb Project of the University of Michigan.

CDC has published Health. United States. 2002 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans, the 26th edition of the annual report on the nation's health. This report contains 147 trend tables organized around health status and determinants. Included are issues such as health-care use, health-care resources, and health-care expenditures. Disparities in health by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status are presented in several tables.

Searchable by specialty, city, state, etc. Offers option to contact the specialist.

The home page of the NCQA, an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, including HMOs.

Includes articles on issues about vaccination and links to other sites dealing with epidemiological vaccinations, vaccine delivery and is patient friendly. Material reviewed by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Covers common illnesses and injuries with special interest in prescription medications.

Lists news and events, health information, grants & contracts, scientific resources, institutes and offices.

A portal to the extensive, online nutrition information availabe through the agencies of the federal government.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention (OGDP) in 1997 at the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). In 2002 the name was changed to the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention (OGDP).

This site is intended to serve a wide audience including older people and their famillies, health and legal professionals, social service providers, librarians, researchers, and others with an interest in the field of aging.

No antique medical instrument sites from the original paper survive, and no additional Web sites were identified in the search strategy employed for this paper. Some may have appeared if more pages had been examined, for example, if more sites of less relevance to the search strategy were consulted. A number of Links described below include references to medical antiques sites. Additionally, a simple word search for "medical antiques" produced a number of practical hits. Note: Identification of antique medical instruments might still best be accomplished by consulting an expert, such as a medical museum curator or a history of medicine librarian.

Ayer Company is a publisher of reprint books in history. The home page allows selection by category or search by title. Ordering can be done right from this site. Phone, fax, and e-mail contacts are listed.

The Clendening History of Medicine Library reproduced three pages of card catalog-like citations to books by, and about, Florence Nightingale, which are a part of their holdings. But the real bonus of this site http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/ is the images of lettters written by Florence Nightingale.

This site is composed largely of information about the history of medicine program at Queen's University. Kingston (England), with a link to "other web sites of interest"-nine sites including some of the bibliographic ones reviewed above.

Georg Bartisch, founder of modern ophthalmology, published Ophthalmodouleia in 1583. It was the first ophthalmology text in German and the first Renaissance eye surgery text. This site presents 107 slides or images of 88 woodcuts from the textbook that can be searched by keyword. The images are the joint work of Dr. George O.D. Rosenwasser (Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center) and Duke University Medical Center Library.

This five-page list of links form the Karolinska Institue (Stockhom, Sweden) is a superb source for history of medicine from prehistorice to modern periods. In addition, there are links covering general history of medicine, museums, libraries and special collections topics. Content of collections, use, hours and contact persons are useful for locating history of information worldwide. Karolinska also has a nine-pagge History of Western Biomedicine list which begins with the Ancient Period (499 A.D.), continues through Medieval Period (500-1450), Early Modern Period (1451-1600), and Modern Period (1601-present). The Modern Period is further subdivided into 18th Centerury, 19th Century, 20th Century, and 21st Centry. The latter is empty at present. The links on these pages are international in scope but U.S., U.K., and Canadian offerings predominate. Karolinska is a "must stop" for students of the history of medicine.

The National Library of Medicine's resources for historical scholarship in medicine and related sciences are among the richest of any institution in the world. Collected over many years, the materials in the History of Medicine Division (HMD) provide researchers with sources both rare in availability and exhaustive in scope.

This site also includes Images from the History of Medicine: http:wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov

This two-page list of links from the Program in the History of Medicine from the University of Minnesota offers a short list of bibliographies and course syllabi, an even shorter list of writing and reference pages, and an extensive higory of medicine and sciences resources list. Many of the links are to sites reviewed for this paper, but there are some interesting and unique selections, e.g., materials on the History of psychology, Encyclopedia of Medical Folklore, Women Physician's Autobiographis, and Beyond Affliction: The Disabiltiy History Project. H-New and H-Sci-med-Tech appear under the heading "Listservs and Discussion Groups," but not CADUCEUS-L! No compiler or revision dates are listed for the pages.

This is oneof numerous sites for the Bulletin. A sketch of the scope of the journal, the titles of articles contained in volume 70, editors, subscription information, and instructions for authors are among the links for more information. Table of contents are available by issue but access to full text is by password.

History of Medicine On-Line is a fledgling e-journal with inviting possibilities. The editor anticipates that a wide-ranging "reading list" will be presented annually, including journal articles, books, and dissertations relative to history of medicine. Contributions for publication on "every facet of medical history" from anyone with an interestin history are invited. Links to instructions for authors and submission page are provided for this peer-reviewed journal.

Entitled a beginner's guide to research in the history of science, this annotated bibliography, historiography, and a selection of general history of medicine texts.

The site lists faculty, undergraduate and graduate courses and programs for Johns Hopkins University, History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

The initial screen consists of four items: (1) Library of the Institute of Medicine; (2) Useful Reference Sources in the History of Science, Medical and Technology; (3) Electronic Resources in the History of Science, Medicine an Technolgy; and (4) has been recently revised. "Some useful Reference Sources," was compiled in 1996, and last revised in 1999, This site encompasses twenty pages of annotated citations to binliographies, indexes, dictionaries, biographical sources, catalogs, and treatises. Catalog numbers for Welch Library are appended. "Electronic Resources," provides thirteen pages covering online databases, Web sources, gophers, electronic conferences, and FTP. All are annotated.

A three-page summary of the history, subject orientation, archives and manuscripts collection, staff phone number and e-mail address, the hours and collection policty, and virtual exhibits at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine of McGill University (Quebec) is reported. Maintains a list of "Selected Resources in the History of Medicine."

This site has a Greco-Roman focus and is designed to be a catchall site with documents ranging from conference announcements to bibliographies and hypertext versions of Galen and Hipocrates. [English]

The University of Chicago program and graduate program in the History of Science and Medicine are described.

Browesable online collection of prior exhibitions displayed in the National Library of Medicine History of Medicine. Many of the images can be enlarged for examination and perusal. Examples include Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM and Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

This list of links, selected by Felice Aull, PhD, from the much larger New York University Medical Center's Hippocrates project, is unique among reference lists in history of medicine. It cities representative art, film, and literature on the history of medicine. The art section comprises a small number of medically relevant paintings and lists of information on the medium, art form, summary, commentary, location of the original, alternate sources, miscellaneous facts, the annotator, entry date, and revision date if applicable. The film section is complied in the same format but includes, in addition to the above information, the film director, actors, studio, year, running time, the source on which the film was based, and the videotape source. The literature section is a compilation, by author of classic literature about medicine, physiciians, plagues, body snatching, etc. By selecting one of the book titles, a summary of the story is produced with commentary, publication information, edition, type of genre, and key word descriptions. This is a very impressive effort!

C. Savona-Ventura's site about Maltese health in general includes this historical page about medicine in Malta. [English]

PHDL is a joint, grant-funded project between Scott memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Jefferson's contribution includes 750 pre-1945 alumni, faculty and trustee portraits; scenes from Blockley and other hospitals; 19th and early 20th centruy anatomy labs, nurses, and medical society and class pictures. The Historical Society contributed photoprints of Philadelphia Hospitals, photos of everyday life in Philadelphia circa 1900, and selected Benjamin Ridgeway Evans watercolors of Philadelphia buildings and street scenes. The images at this site are available for research and private study.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health, makes the archival collections of pioneering biomedical scientists of the 20th century available through modern digital technology on its Profiles in Science web site. These collections contain published and unpublished items, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, and audiovisual materials.

Established in 1972, Science History Publications features books (and media) on the history and philosophy of science, medicine, and technolgy. The home page offers vaious options from which to choose. New Books, In Press, Selected Previously Published, and Collector's Corner are useful to libraries for collection development purposes. The Index and Search features allow for specific tracking. Order forms and online services facilitate acquisition.

From Tulane Medical Library's Home page, Selected WWW Sites is comprised of two pages of links to some popular and well-known history of medicine sites, including NLM and Massachusetts General Hospital History of Neurosurgery home pages. Unusual are links to "French Society for the History of Dermatology" and "Historical Medical Tour of Galveston"; useful links are "ABAA-Booknet Home Page" (the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America) and information to subscribe to CADUCEUS-L, the history of medicine listserv. This site was updated March 18, 1999.

A thirteen-page Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of American Medicine & Related Health Fields lists both monographs and classics. Although the citations are non-critical, there are some annotations. The bibliography is largely comprised of books published from 1960 forward. This site was last modified on October 22, 2002 .

This is a searchable database of 60,000 + images and prints (photographs, artwork, and printed texts) contained in the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine collection.

Three pages of links, this site consists of sevral of those reviewed in this paper and three judged to be excellent resources-WWWVL History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Ancient Medicine-Medicina Antiqua; and History of Biomedicine (Karolinska Institute). This page was last modified on September 8, 1999.

This site describes the special collection resources and services of the Edward G. Miner Library of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. It includes links to Rare Books(a synopsis of special collections, but no bibliography); Photo collections; and a descriction of the Manuscript Collections. The archival records all include descriptions of content in typical archives format.

A short list of twelve essays, each with a short bibliography, have been compiled by Barbara Floyd, University ARchivist. There are some interesting and appropriate illustrations in each essay. For example, in Medical Education, there are period photographs of medical students dissecting corpses, a photo of an operating amphitheater, and the cover of a class announcement booklet circa 1900. Other topics include Scientific Medicine, Home Health Care, Quackery, Patent Medicine, Mental Health, Women's Health Care, the Public Health Movement, Nursing, Physical Fitness and Nutrition, and Medicine in the Civil War. The last revision date for this collection was February 1995.

The extensive holdings and description of the archives on "Health and Medical Records" of the Golda Meir Library of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are presented and summarized. The files are organized by names of individuals to whom the papers belonged. This site also has subject listings to collections covering its entire archives on the history of Milwaukee. The site was last updated on March 4, 2003.

A two-page summary of the University of London, the site includes phone and fax numbers, hours, access, and name of the librarian in charge. It summarizes, generally, the holdings in the collection, e.g., "Iconographic Collections-published catalogue of portrait-prints; on-remainder uncatalogued." Classification schemes used, stock in number of volumes, special collections or strengths, and additional facilities, such as photocopying, are detailed. Links to the library card catalogue for searching and to other history libraries in London are incorporated.

The American Hospital Directory provides on-line, comparative data for most hospitals. Database is built from Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the federal Health Care Financing Administration. The directory also includes AHA Annual Survey Data licensed from Health Forum, an American Hospital Association company.

Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Lists hospitals on the Web by country and state. From the WebMaster: "Welcome to HospitalWeb, a small but growing list of Hospitals on the Web. This list is being compiled with the hope that more hospitals will take advantage of the amazing potential of the World Wide Web. Providing a simple and globally accessible way for patients, medical researchers, and physicians to get information on any hospital in the world is the goal.

Electric Differential multimedia Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, College of Medicine. Digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa for both health professionals and patients; related sites are the Virtual Children's Hospital http://www.vh.org/VCH/ and the Virtual Naval Hospital http://www.vnh.org/ a service of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery).

An on-line resource for estimating impairment rating in Florida based on the 1996 Florida Uniform Permanent Impairment Rating Schedule published by the Florida Workers' Compensation Institute. This site is curated by Oregon Hunter, M.D.

National Library of Medicine's Library catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools. NLM's MEDLINE database does not contain information on books or book chapters (it covers journal articles) LOCATORplus, NLM's Library Catalog, contains some listings for book chapters, with more currently being added.

NLM Classification Online
http://www.wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class

The online version of the National Library of Medicine Classification, 2002. This public-access sytem consists of the NLM Classification Schedules and index on Web-mounted HTML pages. More information is available from the NLM Web site at:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/nlmclassif.html

Searching LOCATORplus for Journal Titles
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/sea/publications/seacurrents/2001/2001n1.html

1,247 vibrant engravings, many in color, taken straight from Gray's 1918 edition.

An on-line exhibition prepared in conjunction with the Colloquium "Antiqua Medicina: Aspects in Ancient Medicine". There's a strong Greco-Roman focus here, and lots of information.

Produced by David M. Martin and Ralph C. Lyons, both certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Gastroenterology.

More than 20,000 images. Search by topic or condition. Categorized archive from the University of Bristol, UK. Downloading images requires registration (FREE!).

A history of the procedure, which began in ancient times. [English]

A long list of links to sites and resources that deal with history of Islamic Medicine. [English]

Searchable/Browsable localization feature provides a body map for browsing. Site owners require permission before using images. Maintained by Dermatology Internet Service at the Universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg, Germany.

Search or browse by topic or anatomical region. Maintained by the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Department of Ophthalmology.

The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings- many in color- from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index.

HONmedia is a repository of over 3300 medical images and videos on 1700 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON; new image links are constantly being added from the Web.

Images for Basic Sciences, Clinical Programs, and Continuing Education. Paid Subcription required. Free Demos are available to browse.

This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and monographs collection of the History of Medicine Division (NLM) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

Covers both general and many specialty areas.

Includes information about concepts and understanding of disease and medicine. This page is part of a larger website, The Asclepion, which is dedicated to the study of ancient medicine. Hosted by the Indiana University. [English]

Explores some of the medical advancements made possible by computer and communications technology with an overview of the evolution of computer technology in the United States. Also the deployment of computers in the medical arena in the section "Medicine and Computers, 1950 - 1990".

Need more high end medical images, try searching some of the Medscapes medical images. Images can be sought under the headings "Medscape Professional" and "Primary Care Dermatology Atlas". (you'll need to register, but it's free and worth the trouble!)

Organized, searchable gateway to CDC's pictures, single images, image sets, and multimeda files. Created by CDCP for reference, teaching, presentation, and health messages.

This site contains photos, logos, and images used at the NLM website.

"Turning the Pages" uses computer animation, high-quality digitized images, and touch screen technology to simulate the action of turning the pages of a book. One gets the sensation of actually leafing through the book. The first U.S. site of "Turning the Pages," a remarkable program developed at the British Library, is at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Maryland. The patron moves his or her finger across the monitor and the page begins to turn, curves and falls to the other side. You can go backward or forward or linger over the copy. The patron can touch an icon on each page and zoom in on any section of the page as desired. ("'Turning the Pages' at the National Library of Medicine." NLM Pocketcard. National Library of Medicine Publication. Bethesda, MD)

Cross-section images of male and female. Images are free but you must file a agreement with NLM. Project links also provided.

A Texas death-row inmate donates his body to science. It was electronically scanned, digitally photographed and reformatted into a vast computer file. Today, that inmate and a Maryland housewife felled by a heart attack have achieved immortality in cyberspace as virtual cadavers, the Visible Humans. As of 2001, the National Library of Medicine has granted over 1,400 licenses to organizations and individuals all over the world to use the visible human data sets for specific purposes. Physicians used data from the Visible Human to practice patient-specific prostate and brain surgery before performing real surgery. Students can now dissect a cadaver online over and over again. Engineers from Ames, Iowa have developed software that will allow students to dissect gross anatomy without destroying the original cyber-cadaver. Instead of cutting through a cadaver's muscle to view the bones, a student can remove muscles one at a time by moving the cursor, revealing the skeleton with a simple click of the mouse.("The Visible Humans: NLM's Virtual Cadavers." NLM Pocketcard. National Library of Medicine Publication. Bethesda, MD)

Still pictures and movies of the brain. Use and distribution requires proper crediting of site.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization of individuals, institutions, and corporations dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve healthcare.

A guide for health care professionals who wish to understand the principle of informatics, and the clinical applications of information and communicaton systems.

"We list the best sites that list the sites" this section of Hardin MD includes links to about two dozen sites that have tried to collect medical informatics sites.

Maintained by the Freiburg, Germany, University Hospital: Department of Medical Informatics, this site includes medical informatics sites arranged by country of origin.

A fairly limited list but it includes some resources and sites of value that are not typically included elsewhere, with special emphasis on the U.K.

An interesting assemblage of resource links relevant to healthcare technology, health information management, and telemedicine, including links to some reports and other resources that are not typically found elsewhere.

Sites are arranged simply in alphabetical order. Most inclusive collection of links to Web sites related to medical informatics and information technology in health care. Difficult to scan.

An extensive listing of telemedicine projects, organizations, books and journals, conferences, and links to other resources; the site is maintained in Australia but with an international dimension.

Telemedicine is the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the patient from the health care provider. Health professionals make house calls from hundred of miles away--via the computer. Medical students can observe grand rounds in hospitals around the world. Patient records such as x-rays can be dispatched across the continent electronically, allowing long-distance diagnoses. For example, you have a heart attack and, before you make it to the hospital, a specially equipped ambulance takes your vital signs and sends them electronically to the emergency room physician, who also interviews you as the ambulance speeds to the hospital. The minute you arrive, the best care can be administered in a flash. For example: In rural Iowa, children with disabilities who find it difficult to make a 5-hour trip to a university physician specialist can consult with the physician or health care specialist via a monitor in their local health clinic. The result: fewer emergency room visits and reduced travel to distant facilities for health problems and evaluation, and the continued ability to live independently. These scenarios may soon become common practices in cities across the United States. ("Telemedicine." NLM Pocketcard. National Library of Medicine Publication. Bethesda, MD)

The Pediatric Pilot Page
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/pedipilot.html

Medical files for pediatricians and other physicians who use a PDA with the Palm OS.

UMSH Telemedicine Resource Center
http://www.med.umich.edu/telemedicine/

Links to telemedicine projects, programs, and resources in the U.S. arranged under each state.

Help and Tutorials

Links to major sites including Internet guides to health informatics resources, associations and organizations, and educational resources.

Co-Principal Investigators Steven McCall (UA) and Ana Cleveland (UNT). Creates a digital library that can be readily consulted during real time patient care. Much of the site can be accessed excluding the paid subscription at each school. Excellent project bringing a diversity of resources together by subject.

Includes many useful links to medically related information.

Draft Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002 is available for review. Standards are at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=128964 2002.DOC">http://www.hls.mlanet.org/standards 2002.DOC. FAQ at http://www.hls.mlanet.org/FAQ.doc.

A list of national and international health science libraries by state and country Source to find hospital web-sites.

Professional association of health science librarians. Contains information on a variety of services, publications and related associations.

Contains information, news and databases relating to hospital libraries. Includes the full-text of the "Standards for Hospital Libraries.

The NELH Program is working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public. This is a pilot Web site aimed mainly at NHS staff.

Bethesda, Maryland. HyperDoc, the Web server, collects NLM & NIH information, including a new exhibit of over 60,000 images of prints and photographs from the history of medicine.

Web site by the Medical Library Education Section/MLA. Includes Library School Resources | Fellowship and Training Opportunities | Advice and resources for students and educators | Other Interesting Educational Resources. Excellent resource for library students. This MLA Section consists of Medical Library professors. Dr Dee Chaired the Medical Library Education Section a few years ago.

The Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Inc. (TBLC) is one of six nonprofit multi-type library cooperatives in Florida. It leads and encourages collaboration, resource sharing, staff development, and innovations to insure that the people of west central Florida receive excellent, up-to-date library services and have access to the world of information. In 2003, TBLC's membership includes 93 libraries.

Index of Chat Reference Services website for the various email and chat services listings

Websites are chosen by library staff. Subject listing is more complete and current. Some areas of interest: Multimedia and Audiovisuals, Online Patient Ed Videos, and Cross Cultural Medicine. Information resources on specific subjects, such as cardiology, Parkinson's Disease, etc., appear ONLY under the specific subjects.

A glossary of commonly used abbreviations that we use for purposes of in-house training by the law firm sponsoring the web page.

Browsable by alphabetical listing of technical and popular medical terms. Contains all the technical and popular terms in an alphabetical order, in the language selected.

Lists of core medical words, prefixes, suffixes and basic terms.

A comprehensive list of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations and meanings. Formerly known as Pharma Lexicon.

The MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary is somewhat different from the traditional medical dictionary. Since this Dictionary was first conceived some years ago, the medical staff of MedicineNet.com has added (and subtracted) entries almost daily. We have also revised existing entries on an ongoing basis. The MedTerms.com Dictionary is an online publication with the advantages of this electronic medium. The MedTerms.com Dictionary contains a considerable and constantly changing number of classical and contemporary medical terms. Some of the entries to these terms are longer than regular dictionary entries and are miniature medical essays. The end result is that this Dictionary might be called an "e- encyclopedic dictionary." We have called it simply a Dictionary to emphasize its function as an easy-access, reliable reference.

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database that is produced by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health administration, and the pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE is so large (more than 11 million records), it is generally considered to be the premiere index to the world's medical literature of biomedical journal articles. The Web provides a variety of interfaces for searching in MEDLINE. The National Library of Medicine, which produces MEDLINE and licenses it to other vendors, provides free access on its Website. The NLM provides several ways to search MEDLINE. Some university libraries have created MEDLINE interfaces that are tailored to best serve their users. For example, campuses can limit their searches to journals held at a particular location-at their own library, or several dozen other locations. In addition, many university libraries offer full-text access to a growing number of on-line journals for which they have paid subscriptions. For copyright reasons, remote access is limited to those with library privileges. (Many health science librarians use the Ovid interface to MEDLINE. Pub Med is an interface to MEDLINE. FirstSearch also has an interface to MEDLINE. Notice that the URL above takes you to PubMed. PubMed is the "Interface" with which we search the MEDLINE data files. The terms PubMed and MEDLINE are really not the same. One is the collection of information on a computer: MEDLINE, and one is the Interface or Search Engine (it is called both, perhaps erroneously).

Attempts to use the internet to free up access to the world's biomedical literature have resulted in several similarly named initiatives emerging over the past two years. PubMed Central, BioMed Central, and the Public Library of Science have joined the slightly older PubMed, which has a different function but a name similar enough to add to the confusion.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are an essential part of MEDLINE and other databases produced by the National Library of Medicine. The MeSH vocabulary includes over 21,000 MeSH descriptors, and more than 23,000 "See" references.

The National Library of Medicine links to a number of other MeSH-related resources, including a Fact Sheet with detailed information about MeSH and a MeSH Browser that can be used to find the most appropriate Medical Subject Heading for each concept that you are searching. For each MeSH, you can read its scope notes, notes to indexers, view its relationship to other MeSH, and see which subheadings or qualifiers can be applied to it.

The MeSH Browsers that are built into PubMed and NLM Gateway may be easier to use. In PubMed's MeSH Browser, you can enter selected results (one or more MeSH, with or without subheadings) directly into your search strategy, or you can use this tool as a stand-alone MeSH browser while laying out possible search strategies. The extensive mapping available on these and most other sources of MeSH help are implementations of the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus.

New Entrez Database: MeSH

A new database (MeSH) will be implemented to replace the current MeSH Browser. See the NLM Technical Bulletin article and explanatory tutorial (by Kathi Canese, National Center for Biotechnolgy Information, posted April 25, 2003) at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma03/ma03_mesh.html.

Features of the MeSH Vocabulary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/features.html

2002 Medical Subject Headings
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/newd2002.html

2002 Medical Subject Headings by Subcategory
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/newbysub2002.html

Replaced Medical Subject Headings With Replaced-by-Headings-2002
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/replaced2002.html

Publication Types-Scope Notes
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/pubtypes.html

Files Available to Download
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/filelist.html

Topical Subheadings With Scope Notes, Abbreviations, and Allowable Categories
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/topsubscope.html

Topical Subheadings By Allowable Category
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/topcat.html

Topical Subheading Hierarchies
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/subhierarchy.html

Indexing Annotations
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/indexing.html

History and Online Notes
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/histnotes.html

Abbreviations and Short Form Conventions
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/abbrev.html

Most of what you find in MEDLINE will not be available on the Web as a full-text document, but you can still obtain a copy if you do not have convenient access to a medical library. The National Library of Medicine's Loansome Doc allows you to order documents after first establishing an agreement with a nearby medical library. Detailed information is available on the Loansome Doc Fact Sheet . Loansome Doc is built into Pub Med. Documents are available in a variety of forms (mail, fax, pickup, or internet), depending on the capacity of the local library. Charges vary, also depending on the local library. In addition, there are commercial services for obtaining copies of articles. For example, Infotrieve is a library services company that has its own free interface to MEDLINE, and a full-service (for a fee) means for obtaining articles.

NLM Gateway Database is intended for users who come to the National Library of Medicine without knowing what is there or how best to search for it. NLM Gateway provides a single interface for searching in a number of the Library's resources, including MEDLINE (PubMed) and MEDLINEPlus. NLM Gateway searches simultaneously within multiple retrieval systems. Its "Find Terms" button leads you to information about the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) that might encompass the terms you enter. If you know that what you are looking for is in MEDLINE, then PubMed is a more appropriate interface, because its limits feature is specific to MEDLINE. (The Limits button in the NLM Gateway is for categories, such as journal articles, consumer health, books/serials/AV, or databanks.)

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 12 million citations in MEDLINE and other related databases, with links to a few participating online journals. Database still under development and subject to frequent changes. The Index/Preview button: If you enter a term in the Index section and Preview it or add it to the query without selecting the term from the Index display, PubMed will run it through the automatic term mapping procedure. (The index count reflects the number of records that carry the term.) PubMed uses a single interface to accommodate both basic and advanced search strategies. For serious searches in any MEDLINE interface, use the MeSH vocabulary found in the MeSH browser that best describes the concepts you are researching. PubMed includes the hospital/health science literature formerly found in the HealthSTAR database. Includes the health administration information (old HealthSTAR). Clinical (emphasizes the evaluation of patient outcomes and the effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services, and processes) and non-clinical (emphasizes health care administration and planning) aspects of health care delivery. Includes bibliographic citations concerning health care delivery. Clinically focused citations emphasize the evaluation of patient outcomes and the effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, and processes. Non-clinically-focused citations emphasize health care administration, as well as the economic, planning, and policy aspects of health care delivery. Linkout (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/) is a feature that displays links on items retrieved in PubMed to information providers. These provider links offer the full-text of the cited article, or information related to the subject of the citation. One third of pubMed users are consumers, according to a study of 2,100 users in 2000.

A "History of Medicine"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

This subject subset is available on the Subset pull-down menu on the PubMed Limits screen.

Cancer Subset
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets.html

This subject subset is available on the Subset pull-down menu on the PubMed Limits screen. See the April 24, 2003 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin for more information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma03/ma03_cancer_subset.html

"At Your Desktop: the PubMed Interactive Tutorial " http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma01/ma01_tutorial.html

This NLM Technical Bulletin article is also now available.

The Hospital Librarian's Guide to LinkOut for Libraries.
http://nnlm.gov/psr/hl_linkout.html

Created by the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library. This brief Guide provides an orientation to LinkOut and also contains links to other documents that provide more depth.

National Network of Library Medicine's LinkOut documentation may be found at http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/ejournals/linkout/

***NLM PubMed Tutorial available from PubMed's sidebar (right under the Help/FAQ link) or you may go directly to it at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

National Library of Medicine PubMed Online Training
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2002.html

NLM Training Manuals: PubMed®, NLM Gateway, ClinicalTrials.gov, and TOXNET
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html

Pubmed- Email function

The email function has appeared in PubMed. Find it on the Action Bar (the bar that controls display options on a PubMed results Screen) in the "Send To" drop down menu.

See the NLM Technical Bulletin for updates on the NLM databases.

Systematic Reviews is available on PubMed's Clinical Queries screen (link from sidebar). Users can apply either a Clinical Queries filter or the Systematic Reviews filter to their search terms. The Systematic Reviews filter retrieves citations for meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, guidelines, and citations to articles from journals specializing in clinical review studies. There will be an article about this new feature in a future issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin and the strategy used to create the filter will be made available.

Web-based learning program will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM™) journal literature search system. This course was last updated January 16, 2003, and reflects how PubMed worked at that time.

Contains citations published before 1960's - NLM continues to go back. MeSH does not apply to this database since records were created before MeSH. Because the Medical Subject Headings for these citations have not been updated in more than 30 years, they must be searched as Text Words (Key Words). Does not include abstracts. These records were discovered in Great Britian. Access to OLDMEDLINE is available through the NLM Gateway.

"How to Search OLDMEDLINE Using the NLM Gateway. NLM Technical Bulletin, May/June 2001.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj01/mj01_gw_hands_on.html

There are many interfaces to MEDLINE on the Web. Some are free, some are free with registration, and some are fee-based. They vary widely. Another linked list of MEDLINE interfaces can be found on Dr. Felix's Free MEDLINE Page. Dr. Felix warns that you may not know what you are getting for free, noting that some of these sites provide access only to certain parts of MEDLINE, and some are limited to key word searching. William Detmer's "MEDLINE on the Web: Ten Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Web Based Service" provides some insightful guidance on how to select a provider of MEDLINE on the Web.

The National Library of Medicine sells MEDLINE to commercial vendors such as FirstSearch. MEDLINE (FirstSearch) is available in many public and academic libraries with FirstSearch subscriptions. Check your library. To access this resource remotely, you will need a password and Proxy Setup. Contents/Info: Journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more (most with abstracts and some with full-text).

To access this resource remotely, you will need an active ID. Contents/Info Provides searchable fulltext access to major journals in psychology and psychiatry. Check USF and FSU medical libraries for availability.

To access this resource remotely, you will need an ID and Proxy Setup. Contents/Info: Descriptive information and critical review of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Available only on USF Virtual Library.

Often available from more than one vendor. In each case, the data is provided by the American Psychological Association. What differs are some of the searching capabilities and years of coverage. APA's PsycInfo Information states: "All PsycINFO information products are derived from the PsycINFO(r) database, a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references-most with abstracts or content summaries. It contains all of the citations that PsycINFO has created in electronic form-more than 1.5 million references to psychological literature spanning 1887 to the present day." Links to selected titles from Science Direct.

Help Sheet, PsycINFO (WebLUIS)

When opening a webpage, I watch with dread as the scroll bar gets tinier and tinier. Instead of wasting time scanning a twenty-page document, you can simultaneously press the “Ctrl” and “F” keys on your keyboard. In the find box, type your term, number(s), or phrase (without quotation marks). Hit “Enter” on your keyboard or click on the “Find Next” button. The screen will jump down to the next highlighted term (or phrase) in the text. You can search upwards or downwards through the document. Keep hitting the enter key or “find next” button until a dialog box tells you there are no more occurrences or has finished searching the document. “Crl” “F” works with word processing documents, too. PDF documents offer the same feature. Click on the binoculars icon on the PDF toolbar and type the term, number(s), or phrase (without the quotation marks). Both finding features are not case sensitive.

InfoRetriever is a subscription information source that offers current information on medical treatment. InfoRetriever is a current awareness tool that provides daily e-mails on recent developments and research studies/clinical trials; and a database by disease entity that includes all of the daily e-mails (called InfoPoems) by level of evidence provided by the study/trial. There are a number of decision tools in the program as well as Griffith's 5-minute Clinical Consult. There is a full laptop download and pda download. Access to this database is through the FSU medical library or you may apply for a free trial This is a new product, developed and delivered in a new era-not a book, not a journal, a continually updated web-publication, so it is difficult to compare it by content or even cost to other resources.

Have you ever gotten a search request with misspelled medical terms? MedlinePlus has a medical spell checker and will list proper spellings of the term. Go to MedlinePlus (http://www.medlineplus.gov) and in the “Search” box (upper left corner), type in the misspelled term and click on ”Go.” The spell checker will display a box with the proper spelling. (For some reason this valuable feature sometimes disappears from the MedlinePlus website, but comes back in a day or two.)

When your browser’s “Back” button bounces back to the same webpage, the webmaster disabled the “Back” button. Solve this by clicking on the black arrow attached to the end of your address bar. As you move your cursor down, each website address you visited will be highlighted. Single-click with your left mouse button to skip to your choice. This works for the Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator browsers.

The new Medlineplus page is good

POPLINE provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. Includes bibliographic citations concerning family planning, population law and policy, and primary health care, including maternal/child health in developing countries. This database is produced by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Location as of April 1, 2001.

Its purpose is to consolidate the growing body of space life sciences research into a single, easily accessible resource.

Information provided by the National Library of Medicine about the NLM databases and databanks.

"How to" Information

Owned and operated by Worldwide Nurse and administered by Brian Short, RN. The site invites browsing by category: e-commerce, employment,Nursing humor, nursing schools, nursing specialty groups, and online CE Courses.

Click on "Members go direct now" on the lower left-hand side of the homepage. Username: ftcdsf. Password: Unsf65. Username and password are good until August 2003.

First choice database for Nursing information. Covers all aspects of nursing. Covers many additional nursing journals than the nursing journals indexed in MEDLINE. Nursing information ranges from clinical nursing care to nursing administration. The perspective of nursing literature is very different from the medical literature on the same subject as contained in MEDLINE.

Free Continuing Education Activities with cooresponding CEU's are offered for a variety of professional health care disciplines, including nursing. Hosted by Medscape.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 560 journals.

Developed by Delmar Publishing, site complements the Physicians Desk Reference Nurse's Handbook while adding alerts on drug changes and new drug releases.

Offers a combination of services, information and community as well as special features on hot topics such as latex gloves.

A magazine style web page featuring news and research articles of interest to nurses. From the publishers of NURSEWEEK.

Nursezone.com's home page has two distinct menus, one dubbed "for work," the other "For life." Among the work offerings are medical and specialty news alerts, a drug guide, a jumbo career center with close to 10,000 job listings, and an education selection. The DealZone section spans both worlds, with links to e-commerce sites that sell nursing supplies and apparel, an online center called Women First, and technology companies offering PCs, messaging systems, and electronic gadgets.

Nursing.about.com is full of learning opportunities, with articles, news, and connections to resources on everything from bioethics to education, student nursing, and infection control.

Primarily focuses on nursing education, research, and practice.

University of Michigan Taubman Medical Library. Features links to nursing information resources.

Maintained by Jo Ann Klein, BSN, RN. An extensive collection of links to nursing related sites on the World Wide Web.

Maintained by librarians at SUNY-Buffalo.

This database has a significant amount of nursing information. Under "Limits" use subset "Nursing Journals." PubMed indexes some different journals than CINAHL. Search both databases for coverage of a nursing topic.

Created by Dr. Diane Wink of the College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida. Offers links to nursing resources and includes a well developed collection of links to parenting and child care web sites.

Developed by Jim Martindale. This page features a collection of links to nursing learning sites, anatomy browsers, simulated patients, and other interactive resources.

How to Information. A directory list of Nursing sites prepared by the University of Florida Health Science Center Library.

Includes th eElectronic Residency Application Service http://www.aamc.org/about/progemph/eras/start.htm

A collection of over 1100 Internet sites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.

Includes application information, residency requirements, contacts, and useful links.

Includes information regarding the Business Meeting at MLA, scholarship information and the minutes from the 2002 Executive Committee Meeting.

Professional association of health science librarians. Contains information on a variety of services, publications and related associations.

http://www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The Medical Library Association (MLA) continually offers scholarships to encourage library school students who show excellence in scholarship and potential for accomplishment in health sciences librarianship. Scholarships are also available for practicing health sciences librarians who would like to take advantage of opportunities for continuing professional development.

NNLM Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/nnlm.html

Handout (in PDF format) which describes using online databases and finding books, audiovisuals, and journal articles.

The Library has revamped its PDA subject guide to reflect the amount of information and activities being generated around the Duke Medical Center related to this topic.

Mobile Computing: Pocket Computers (Palm, CE, and more), Provide links to Internet sites devoted to the use of palm technology in medicine.

The Brandon Hill Lists are the premier collection development tools for small and medium medical libraries. The Brandon/Hill selected lists, "Small Medical Library," "Nursing," and "Allied Health," are available for download through a link located on the Majors Scientific Books, Inc. public website, which you can access buy clicking on "Brandon/Hill Titles" under "Libraries" in the left-hand column of the opening page. This will link you to Dorothy Hill's Website at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. The Brandon/Hill Medical List will not be published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association anymore. It will only be available online.

Article by Scott J. Turner in the George Street Journal, Volume 24.

Website that compares journal and/or database costs to luxury items.

EClue Backfiles, The Shimberg Health Sciences Library
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/library/clue.html

Florida Atlantic University "Dollars & $ense: the Price of Information"
http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/ref/infocost.htm

Website that compares journal and/or database costs to luxury items.

Links to Web sites providing instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources," i.e, publishers or organizations, with editorial responsibilities for particular titles.

Hosted by the University of California, San Fransisco, School of Medicine website.

***Journal of the Medical Library Association
http://www.mlanet.org/publications/jmla/

A few articles are full-text.

Very important journal for medical searchers.

Website that compares journal and/or database costs to luxury items.

Ask NOAH About EBM
http://www.noah-health.org/english/ebhc/ebhc.html

CDC Evaluation Working Group
http://www.cdc.gov/eval

Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
http://www.centerwatch.com/

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
http://www.cebm.net/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://cms.hhs.gov/default.asp?fromhcfadotgov=true

Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration. Has separate sections for consumers, professionals, and public affairs.

A large collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care from advance directives and BBA to HIPAA to wired health.

A source directed to lawyers and law students with FindLaw Resources, Health Law Web Guide, Related FindLaw Guide Pages. A primer of doing legal research online is available at http://www.findlaw.com/info/helpers/primer.html .

Includes interdisciplinary resources as well as links in many categories.

A service of the Library of Congress.

A collaborative project of the resource libraries in the Pacific Southwest Region/NNLM that provides selective evaluated links arranged by MeSH subject headings.

Emphasis on career planning with ResidencyFind an dFellowshipFind databases.

From Oregon Health Sciences University. An index and table of contents to clinical information on the Web. Search terms may be entered in five different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese) and has direct links to MEDLINE searches via PubMed. Searching and browsing are MeSH-based.

MeSH classified list of free resources.

This is a list for health subjects form Hardin Library for Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. Extensive and interdisciplinary links include selections from other metasites, indexes, and specialized quality sites which might be overlooked by the larger indexes.

A series of lists compiled by Tom Flemming, McMaster University Health Sciences Library.

Developed by the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries in 1995. Patient Toolkit has nice collection of links for consumers.

A network of more than 30 professional Web sites for physicians and other healthcare professionals. Each site within their network focuses solely on one medical specialty, an dprovides daily updates of all journal and medical news articles in that specialty (and its 10-15 subspecialities). In addition, all Web sites provide free, daily e-mail newsletters. Free registration is required.

Reliable, multi-speciality, clinical information for providers and consumers. Free registration is required.

Spanish language meta-search engine. Provides a gateway to an extensive list of multi-language search engines.

This site is a Spanish language edition of the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) healthfinder page (the English language version was reviewed in the April 18, 1997 _Scout Report_). Healthfinder provided sources of selected informaiton in Spanish and is intended to serve as a guide for pragmatic, health-related decision-making.

Directory Structure or Boolean Search; Directory Category Medicina

Digital Corporation provides a "translate" option. Perform your search in English, then clock-translate to Spanish. Another option is the choose to "search the web in" then clock the dropdown box and choose Spanish.

"Primer canal de navegacion en Espanol"; Directory Sturcutre. Directory category Ciendia y. Salud.

This searchable site provides useful links in a variety of areas: certification and recertification requirements, job opportunities, news about the organization, continuing education, research grants, reports, scholarships, ACSM publications, and related information.

Helpful resources on the AOSSM site include Find a Doctor, a searchable database of sports medicine orthopedists; a link to its Boomerites site, a Website devoted to education regarding sports injury, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation specifically for Baby Boomers; information about continuing education; Sports Medicine Update, the quarterly newsletter of the AOSSM; and contents and abstracts for the current issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

MedNets is an international research site with proprietary search engines for every medical speciality. Research Engines link users to lists of specialties, including sports medicine. The Sports Medicine page lists a variety of searchable databases across the spectrum of relevant topics. On the left sidebar, users can choose the Doctors Engines or the Patients Engine, according to their information needs. Users can also tailor their searches according to timeout limit, number of results per engine, and number of results per page. The National Institutes of Health guidelines and MEDLINE can also be searched from this site.

NISMAT was the first hospital-based facility dedicated to the study of sports medicine in the country. This Website provides valuable information about orthopedics, exercise physiology, nutrition, cardiology, physical therapy, and athletic training. In addition to training tips, hot topics, lectures, and links to a number of sites related to sports medicine, the Website offers a list of NISMAT publications and current research.

Physician and Sports Medicine is a peer-reviewed, monthly journal serving the practicing physician's professional and personal interests in the medical aspects of exercise, sports, and fitness. Subscriptions are free to qualified personnel. The site also includes a personal health section, classified advertising, and a resource center with directories to sports medicine clinics, groups, and fellowships and links to related Websites.

This nutrition directory is an online rating and review guide assisting users in finding accurate nutrition information quickly. Listed sites have been reviewed by nutritionists who apply the rating and evaluation criteria developed by the Tufts University Nutrition Navigator Advisory Board. The Hot Topics section links to an annotated list of Sports Nutrition Websites.

Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

An excellent self-study course that explains a lot of the "why and why not" questions regarding health statistics.

From the Falk Library's home page. A guide to locating health statistics and resources.

A guide to health statistics on the Web and in the library. Includes organizations and associations that collect statistics as well as government agencies.

Compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A collection of health statistics links developed by the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.

Information about the center as well as full text of many of the statistical publications it issues.

Selected abstracts from the print Statistical Abstract, including frequently requested tables on population and national health expenditure.

Hyperlink on Health: Natality, Morbidity, Mortaility

Geneva, Switzerland. Includes Statistical Information System (WHOSIS); International travel and health; Weekly Epidemiology Report (WER); World Health Report.

Journal subscription distribution agency.

An example of book information available to the librarian. Includes information on publishers, book lists, where to find books and media, services for bookstores and libraries, links to related home pages and book ordering information. Majors will supply a packet of information on their services to the class.

Ovid Technologies (http://www.ovid.com) launched Ovid@Hand, a new product developed by Ovid Technologies and Unbound Medicine (http://www.unboundmedicine.com) which allows clinicians to order medical information database searches or learn about new journal articles directly from a Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, or other hand-held device.

Contains information about complementary and alternative veterinary medicine including care and treatment of common health problems, herbal medicine, and bibliographies. Also includes an international directory of alternative medicine veterinarians.

Provides links to other humane societies and animal shelters.

Provides news updates on topics such as foot and mouth disease and selected full-text research articles from an organization of veterinary health professional. Contains resources for pet owners including a guide to common small animal poisons, animal health and safety, veterinarian selection, special pages for children, and pet loss.

Useful information and links for veterinary professionals and pet owners including guides to common health problems, care, and treatment.

Includes a searchable database of articles about common pet care issues, a database of plants toxic to animals searchable by common and scientific names, a wildlife medical clinic, and a pet loss help line.

An online diagnostic database that can be searched by species, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis. A brief synopsis with a list of recent literature and a link to PubMed is included.

Contains the latest information on antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and an online version of the Green Book, the FDA-approved animal drug list.

Provides connections to veterinary colleges worldwide as well as animal and veterinary websites.

Gives cancer information for pet owners and health professionals including frequently asked questions about veterinary cancers, treatment, nutritional requirements of dogs and cats with cancer, and a link to an international directory of veterinary radiation oncologists.

Includes an animal health care encyclopedia, a knowledgebase with answers to commonly asked questions, a free service that allows visitors to post specific questions to veterinary staff, and a daily online magazine.

Contains information for pet owners on identifying the ten common signs of cancer in small animals, veterinary cancer links, and a directory of veterinary oncologists.

Eight principles that make up a good health-related Web site. Available in 13 languages.

Ten tips for evaluating health information. Designed for health consumers.

Grades the performances of hospitals, physicians, health plans, nursing homes, and other health care facilities.

NCQA is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to evaluate and report on the quality of th enation's managed care organizations.

Compares medical sistes and search engines, with a Checklist of Criteria. Used for Evaluation of Metasites, Bibliography, and 1999 search test results.

Based upon questions related to a site's credibility, intended audience, ease of access, currency, sources, design, and comparability to other sites.

• On-Campus assess to FSU databases
• Off-Campus access to FSU Online Databases for Distance Learners and non-FSU/ACNS users only.

Access to many of the online databases requires a State University System-mapped IP address. If you connect to the Internet from a computer that is not connected to the university's network, you must configure your browser to use a proxy server to access such resources.

The following page contains general information on online access to gateway services and proxy configuration: http://home.earthlink.net/~mariliapainter/index.htm
This page also contains a link to a form for students to submit questions and obtain help within 24 hours. If you are using an Internet provider other than FSU, you must set up a proxy account in order to access Webluis and the databases available on the Libraries' home page.To set up the proxy server, access

• FSU's WebLUIS online catalog, CLICK the "User Guide, at top or bottom of screen, go to "Optimizing Your WebLUIS Connection" and CLICK "Proxy Configuration Help".
• Web LUIS

Library User Information Service for the ten universities of the State University System of Florida. Include s the online catalogs for each of the universities and access to a number of databases.
• ERIC Search Wizard 2.0

The ERIC Thesaurus of Descriptors, online version.

Note: When you click on the link to Luis, Netscape will open a new browser window. If you wish to return to the course pages from Luis, you have two options:

1. Click on the File pulldown menu at the top of the screen and choose the "close" option.
2. Click on the Window pulldown menu at the top of the screen and choose the window for your class.

The first option will close this window completely. The second option will leave it open, but will return you to the window containing the course pages. If you wish to return to this window, you will find it in the Window pulldown menu.

"You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short ansd succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back wheever you need to."

Offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher.

This excellent resource has sections including Internet basics, connecting to the Internet, World Wide Web (URLs, browsers, plug-ins, etc.), research guides (tips, the use of the Internet for research and evaluation of Internet resources), search engines, subject directories, and software.