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Health Sciences

General Health Sciences

The resources guide to Public Health (for BHS students and others) is available here

Last updated January 2007 by Mick Draper

Table of Contents

Medicine Web Sites

Databases For Finding Journal Articles
including Sources for Medline

Online Dictionaries Journal Title Abbreviations
Australian SitesOpen Access Journals
Conferences Publication Aids
Foreign Cultures and Health Sites Citation Linker
Evidence Based Practice
and EBP workshop with dental examples
Other Barr Smith Library Guides
Uni of Adelaide Undergraduate Student Online Resources Finding Authors and Affiliations
Uni of Adelaide Student Library Tutorials Cancer sources for public users outside and inside The University of Adelaide Library
 

Medicine Web Sites

There are thousands of medical sites on the internet, with many new sites added each week. Sites listed below are those that have links to a large number of sites using search engines or indexes.
  • Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources Called a Meta directory because it is a list of links to sites that have links to other sites. From Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa
  • Health Insite Consumer level information from a category list or search engine. From The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
  • Health on the Net This database has access to many documents, definitions, illustrations etc. Includes a search engine. From Health On the Net Foundation..
  • Intute: Health & Life Sciences Search for information on all aspects of health and life sciences
  • Karolinska Institutet Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics Search for links to many health related topics. From Karolinska Institutet Library
  • Librarian's Index to the Internet: Health and Medicine A collection of links to many internet sites on most aspects of medicine. Some are at practitioner level, lots are for consumers.
  • List of Medical Wikis Info on a range of medical topics. Each wiki comes with a description, intended audience, who can contribute, and editorial policies. Compiled by David Rothman.
  • Medlinks Best medical sites on the internet according to Stanford University Medical Center.
  • MedNets A community for healthcare professionals Search by specialty category or search engine, also includes products and companies. Aimed at professionals. From MedNets inc.
  • MedWeb A catalogue of health web sites with a search engine or a browse option. Includes journals, professional and consumer sites. From Emory Health Sciences Center Library
  • Megasite Project Links to large medicine sites, and comparison of the sites. From University of Michigan.
  • Martindale's Health Science Guide Teaching files, case studies, movies, glossaries, sites by disease or discipline. By Jim Martindale
  • WiserWiki US based Wiki style source of info on health. Authors are restricted to U.S.board certified doctors
  • World Health Organization Home Page Includes summaries and figures from World Health Reports, contacts, mission statements, policies etc.
Online Dictionaries

Australian Sites

Directories Organisations Other Australian Sites
  • AusDoctors Provides free email, access to databases including Cochrane Library, and Evidence Based Medicine for all Australian Doctors and med students.
  • Clinical Toxinology Resources Toxinology information from around the world covering venonous and poisonous animals, plants and mushrooms. From Women's and Children's Hospital Adelaide, and University of Adelaide Dept of Paediatrics.
  • Conferences

    Foreign Cultures and Health

  • Ethnomed Home Cultural aspects of various groups and how this might impinge on consultation and treatment. From University of Washington & Harborview Medical Center.
  • HealthWeb Minority Health Mainly bibliographies on health among minorities in the USA.
  • Evidence Based Practice

    Uni of Adelaide Undergraduate Student Online Resources

  • Anatomy tv Click on the Resources tab to get access to Anatomy tv. Interactive human anatomy to view multiple layers. Includes quizzes.
  • Australian Medicines Handbook Online access to information on drugs approved for use in Australia
  • Harrison's online Harrison's principles of internal medicine online. University of Adelaide users only.
  • MDConsult Searches clinical ebooks, ejournals, review journals, a drugs database, news, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and cases on a wide area of clinic medicine from specific tabs or from a single search engine.
  • Stat!Ref 8 online med texts. Click on Table of Contents to see the book titles.
  • Uni of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences Undergraduate Tutorials

    Databases for finding Journal Articles

    MEDLINE

    • Medline from ScienceDirect For Uni of Adelaide community. Includes an alert service. No explosion.
    • MedlinePlus A consumer database that includes a list of more than 600 of medical topics to search, drug info, a medical distionary, and a medical encyclopaedia. From U.S. National Library of Medicine.
    • NLM Gateway Provides simultaneous searching in MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
    • PubMed A fast, free version of Medline with links to some full text journals.
    • Uni of Adelaide PubMed Detailed Tutorial Covers the main points of searching PubMed.
    • PubMed Tutorial from National Library of Medicine. How to use PubMed efficiently.

    Journal Title Abbreviations

    Open Access Journals

  • Biomed Central Some free journals, meeting abstracts.
  • freemedicaljournals.com Free medical journals
  • Highwire Press Includes some journals which are free to all.
  • MedicalStudent.com This site includes free medical texts, journals, simulations etc. Run and curated by Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D.
  • PubMed Central A free journal archive.
  • Publication Aids

    Citation Linker Enter details of the item you want and the linker will try to find the full text for you through University of Adelaide Library. Uni of Adelaide community only.

    Other Barr Smith Library Resource Guides

    Finding Authors and Affiliations

    Cancer sources for public users outside and inside The University of Adelaide Library

    Health and Nutrition talk at Waite Campus 2007

    Maureen Bell's Homepage

    Mick Draper's Homepage

    Univeristy of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences

    This page was produced by Mick Draper

    Mick Draper is the Research Librarian for the following disciplines in the Faculty of Health Sciences: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Anatomical Sciences, Dentistry, General Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Surgery. 

    Maureen Bell is the Research Librarian for Clinical Nursing, Mental Health/Psychiatry, Psychology and Public Health.

    Email to: Maureen Bell
    Email to compiler: Mick Draper