Online Medical Resources

Gérard Cottet Library

Online Medical Articles | Bibliographic Databases | Medical Websites | Medical Student Resources

Evidence-Based Medicine | Reference | Search Engines | Reading and Publishing Medical Papers

Library e-Reserves

Research & Study Guides - Master of Public Health | Audiology

Commercial Full text Databases - Password Required

Electronic Books from eBrary

More than 3000 full text books in the Medical Collection

eBooks

Subscribed Full Text Journals

EbscoHOST Databases EbscoHOST

(limited number of simultaneous users)

Unified Search Interface - Choose among:

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Cochrane Methodology Register
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
E-Journals
Health Business Elite
Health Technology Assessments
MEDLINE with Full Text
NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
PsycINFO

Ebsco Electronic Journal Service EJS
(147 Salus University subscriptions - approx. 95 full text )

Ebsco A to Z Search Integrated search of all Ebsco databases.

OVID Full text subscriptions through OVID database

Elsevier ScienceDirect Full text subscriptions through ScienceDirect database

Contact the Librarians if you have any questions or wish to report any problems

gcottet@salus.edu

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New Database Trials

AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine® from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 75 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools and a comprehensive search platform.

PAEasy

Approximately 1,200 questions and answers that simulate the PANCE and PANRE, with full explanations. Robust Performance Profile allows users to track their results performance by topic and test scores over time and allows users to compare their scores to others using PAEasy, including test-takers at the users’ specific institutions.
Three unique Testing Modes which include untimed practice mode, a timed exam, and a simulated test that replicates the official test and its conditions

ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier's medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, giving physicians access to over 900 top books, over 500 top journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.

Free Online Full Text Sources

PubMed
Search Medline for references to articles from up to 1800 biomedical journals, from the National Library of Medicine website. Access numerous other medical and health databases as well. Increasingly a source of full text online.

MedLine Bookshelf
The Bookshelf is a growing collection of full text biomedical books that can be searched directly.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

NLM Ejournals
Links to virtually all electronically published health related journals. Links to other repositories of FREE online publications as well as links to publisher’s websites, which allow free access to articles from 6 months to one year after publication.

Highwire Press
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1112 journals and 4,695,123 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,861,498 articles free.

Google Scholar
Drawn from scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Provides links to articles which have cited the current article as well as articles cited by it.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 3272 journals in the directory. Currently 1061 journals are searchable at article level. As of 3/08, 176801 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

Free Medical Journals
More than 430 free medical journals available in several languages.

Oaister
OAister currently provides access to 15,479,509 digital records from 936 contributors. OAIster is a union catalog of academically-oriented digital resources, including much original material not generally available on the open web.

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Other Bibliographic Databases

ERIC
ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education, research and practice.

Reference Sight
From the University of Waterloo, School of Optometry, provides free access to a comprehensive database of current references relating to contact lenses, refractive surgery and external ocular disease. Search 140,238 references from 2296 refereed journals and professional periodicals, many of which are not listed by any other database. Full abstracts and links to e-text are included where possible, as well as links to publishers and reprint sites. It includes an image library with approximately 400 images/8.

Scirus
Scientific Search Engine. Useful for searching MedLine citations and Biomed Central articles.

Library of Congress Gateway
Search Library of Congress catalog or dozens of other academic and national library catalogs around the world.

WorldCat
Allows searches of the collections and resources of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. Provides subject searching, limits to specific media, such as digital, Braille, maps, etc. and end user reviews.

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Medical Websites

National Library of Medicine Databases & Electronic Resources
Access to all National Library of Medicine databases and National Institutes of Health online resources.

NLM Gateway
Limited search interface allows searching multiple NLM databases including: Clinical Alerts, Clinical Trials, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, Pubmed, Toxnet, HSAT (Health Services Technology Assessment text) and OLDMEDLINE (non-abstracted MEDLINE citations from 1958 -1965). Results are organized by database.

Martindale’s Health Science Guide
The Health Science Guide contains over 140,850 Medical Cases & Grand Rounds; 1,560 Courses/Textbooks; 67,800 Teaching Modules & Files; 550 Journals; 4,800 Databases, Atlases & Image Databases plus 1,000's of Videos and Movies. The site is organized by medical specialty.

Medicinenet
Extensive, well organized links to short, consumer oriented articles, drug information, links to dozens of other medical websites and newsletters.

eMedicine
Includes access to Online medical textbooks and journals,. Browse by medical specialty.

Medline Plus
Good general source of medical information, both for professionals and the general public.

Association of Vision Science Librarians Eye Resources
Exhaustive list of vision-related websites compiled by the Association of Vision Science Librarians. A very useful website, frequently updated and screened for accuracy. Includes links to vision-related newsgroups, newsletters and Listservs

Associations, Societies, Foundations for Eye Health
Compiled by the Association of Vision Science Librarians.

Hardin MD
A collection of links to medical websites and images from the Hardin Library of the University of Iowa

Free Books4Doctors
Full text access to over 630 medical textbooks, in several languages. Organized by language and specialty.

The Merck Manual Home Edition

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Merck Manual of Health & Aging

The Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Karolinska Institute collection of Medical Images
A large collection of medical images, organized by specialty. Some of the content is copyright free.

National Association of the Deaf

American Foundation for the Blind

Lighthouse International
Founded in 1905, Lighthouse International is the leading non-profit organization worldwide dedicated to preserving vision and to helping people of all ages overcome the challenges of vision loss.

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Medical Student Resources

The Student Doctor Network
SDN is a nonprofit web site that started as a grassroots Web community at the University of Kansas in the mid-1990s. Since then, SDN has emerged as one of the most comprehensive and most useful student-driven resources on the Internet.

Student Doctor Network Forums

MedicalStudent.com
An extensive digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine.

Medscape
Requires free registration to access content. Upon registration, you will have full access to: over 250 credits of CME for physicians, nurses and pharmacists, the Web's largest collection of free, full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine articles, Physician optimized MEDLINE, 25+ specialty home pages, plus home pages for nurses, pharmacists and med students, Daily medical news and Continuing Medical Education resources.

USMLE Website

USMLE Web: Miscellaneous resources

USMLE Orientation material
Download sample tutorials and practice test items for Steps 1, 2 and 3.

Creighton University Review Guide to USMLE

MedRounds
It is the goal at MedRounds Publications to provide reliable, high-quality teaching materials to students, patients, and physicians at low or no cost. Substantial access to full text, online medical resources.

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Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorials, Study guides

These web pages contain references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases to aid in the study of evidence-based medicine. They offer practice tools and guides to support critical analysis of the literature and MEDLINE searching, as well as links to other sites that help enable evidence-based medical care.

The EBM Resource Center Web Page

Center for Evidence-based Medicine - Oxford

Bandolier, an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford scientists

Evidence-based Medicine Welch Medical Library Johns Hopkins

Evidence-based Medicine Tutorial – Duke University

Evidence-based medicine Lamar Souter Library UMASS Medical School

Evidence Based Clinical Practice Tutorial - University of Rochester Medical Center

Turning Research into Medicine - EBM specialty search engine

National Guideline Clearinghouse for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Evidence-based practice resources – Geocities.com

Prime Answers – Best Evidence at the Point of Care

Centre for Health Evidence -Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice

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Reference

Refdesk
Links to news services encyclopedia, dictionaries, medical, legal and entertainment resources.

WikiPedia
Very useful “people’s encyclopedia” with more than 2,350,000 articles in English. While not authoritative, it can be a very useful research tool.

Poodwaddle –
Wide ranging reference source. Links to real-time, streaming population, health and economic data in World Clock and Earth Clock. Includes search engines and widgets for games, free programs, MP3 search, editing tools and much more.

Low Vision Gateway
Extensive resource for internet accessible low vision resources.

Internet Public Library
Extensive and well organized website with links to hundreds of newspapers, websites and medical and reference texts.

FindLaw
Provides legal information, lawyer profiles and a community to help you make the best legal decisions.

FindLaw: Health Hippo
Health Hippo is a collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care

FindLaw: Forms
At this site, visitors can gain free access to over 8,000 forms from United States federal and state courts.

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Search Engines

All search engines have unique content and a different blend of strengths and weaknesses.

Searches which are important should be submitted to more than a single search engine for best results.

Google
Largest general search engine. Many other tools such as Google Mail, Blogger and Google Groups

Yahoo Search Engine
Second largest general search engine. Organized by categories as well as spidered search results

Live Search
Miscosoft's, third largest general search engine. Some unique content. Provides automatic local search options.

Ask.com
Formerly Ask Jeeves. Has good features to refine searches.

Gigablast
Smaller database but searches meta-tags, connects to the Wayback Machine and has more accurate detection of actual publication dates of records in its Freshness Dating feature.

Exalead
Smaller database but provides useful options to narrow or refine a search.

Ixquick
Very good Meta-Search engine. Searches many prominent search engines simultaneously (in parallel), eliminates duplicates and ranks results.

Google -Uncle Sam
Special search engine for Searches government databases and websites.

Findlaw
Everything to do with the law, lawyers and legal forms. Channels for students, professionals and the public.

Infospace
Search in extensive Yellow Pages and White Pages and World Directories. Find individuals through telephone and email search tools.

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Statistics

FirstGov
All-in-one portal to US government information. Designed as a user friendly, first stop in finding any information published on the web by ALL government agencies and departments, whether Federal State or local.

FedStats
Foreign, national, state, county, and regional economic and demographic statistics; data, graphs and charts.

Centers for Disease Control
Virtually all of the government health statistical data published by the Centers for Disease Control is available through this site.

National Institutes of Health Clearinghouse of Medical Research Information.

National Eye Institute
Information about clinical studies, publications jobs and more.

Health & Human Services
Dozens of links to health-related federal databases and studies.

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