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INASP Health LinksInternational Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: An Internet Gateway to selected websites for health professionals, medical library communities, and publishers in developing and transitional countries, but also useful for any individuals or institutions looking for online health resources. Includes gateways for Africa, Asia, Latin America and newly independent states.
Informit: An enhanced version of AMI, the Australasian Medical Index, Meditext deals with all aspects of health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and para-professional fields. It covers Australian and New Zealand health and medical literature which is not included in Medline. Sources indexed include journals, monographs, conference proceedings and current research, covering the period 1968 to the present. The scanned images of journal articles in Meditext are sourced from a number of comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.
Medlineplus Health InformationNational Library of Medicine: Provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the US National Institutes of Health, a dictionary, encyclopedia, lists of hospitals and physicians and clinical trials.
Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home EditionA publication from Merck geared for the layperson but still containing the same vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Users can perform a simple or advanced search, but clicking on results often leads to a long page where readers may need to use their browser's find functions to locate what they are looking for. The book's table of contents is organized and detailed enough to be quite useful with eighteen sections devoted to various disorders (Mental Health Disorders, Skin Disorders, Immune Disorders, Cancer, etc.); sections on men's, women's, and children's health issues; information on Drugs, Accidents and Injuries, and Fundamentals (genetics, anatomy, etc.), and more.
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked InformationOMNI, published in the UK, is a free catalogue of hand-selected and evaluated Internet resources in the fields of health & medicine, nursing, animal health, biomedicine, the natural world and agriculture, food & forestry.
Oxford Reference OnlineOxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online covers the following subjects in a single cross-searchable resource: language (dictionaries, grammar, abbreviations, proverbs); general reference (quotations, English place names, first names, world encyclopedia); art and architecture; classics; history; literature; military history; mythology and folklore; performing arts; politics and social sciences; religion and philosophy; economics and business; law; biological sciences; computing; earth and environmental sciences; food and drink; medicine; physical sciences and mathematics. Major reference works which are searchable in this collection include: The Australian Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford Dictionary of Art, Who's Who in the Classical World, Dictionary of Ecology, Dictionary of Computing, Dictionary of British History, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Dictionary of World History, Oxford Companion to American Literature, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
PLoS Public Library of SciencePLoS: PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
POPLINE (POPulation Information OnLINE)POPLINE provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment.
PubMed - MedlineU.S. National Library of Medicine: Medline contains millions of citations to the world's journals covering biomedicine including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues and health care services. Also available in print as Index Medicus at Sq 610.16 IND. Major journals indexed in PubMed include: Advances in Cancer Research, The Lancet, New England Journal Of Medicine, Australian Journal of Scientific Research, Australian Journal of Optometry, Quarterly review of medicine, Biology of the Cell and Journal of Public Health.
Informit: RURAL covers a range of subjects including rural medical practices, indigenous peoples' health, rural and remote area nursing, rural and remote health care, and aged care.
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