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Selected Web Sites
Databases for Finding
Magazine & Journal Articles
Recommended Reference Books
Mayo
Clinic: Diseases and Conditions
Quality information
on an extensive number of diseases and conditions.
MedicineNet.com: Diseases & Conditions
Quality information
on an extensive number of diseases and conditions.
National
Institutes of Health (NIH): Health Information
Browse health topics alphabetically or search for a health topic.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Health Topics A to Z
For additional health information, click on "Search" (at the
top of the page). For recent news & spotlights, click on "Home".
Medline Plus
Extensive general health information from the National Library of Medicine.
Healthfinder: Health Library
Federal web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
together with other Federal agencies.
Hardin MD
Links to high
quality web resources in health and medicine
Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Commonly referred to as "The Merck Manual", this
is "the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals
in the
History of Diseases
Links to history information on many diseases, from the Karolinska
Institutet, a major Swedish medical university.
History of Medicine
From the National Library of
Medicine, the world's largest medical library, contains many valuable resources
in the history of medicine.
Magazine & Journal Databases (to access articles):
Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center: an excellent database that is available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card:
- To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, check the "articles with text" box next to "Limit the current search" (below the text entry box)
- To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.
- PLEASE NOTE: When search results are first
displayed, only reference articles are shown (if available).
Click on the "Magazines & Journals" tab to display all magazine and journal articles on your topic. - Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings under: See Also: at the upper left of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
ASM Microbiology Journals: The American Society for Microbiology provides a free database of articles from its 10 journals (listed below), including full text from January 1998 to the present and abstracts only from January 1992 to December 1997. How to use the ASM journals database
BioMed Central:
Over 180 Open Access (free) journals covering all areas of Biology and
Medicine. Registration required.
PubMed Central: Archive of full-text biomedical and life sciences journal
literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and
managed by NIH's
PubMed: The free Medline database-- the most extensive medical journal database available, including mostly abstracts (summaries- limited full-text articles) of medical journal articles from 1966 to the present. How to use the PubMed database
Recommended Reference Books in Skyline Library Reference Section:
The
Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology: REF/QR9.S56 1987
Dictionary of Scientific Biography: REF/Q141.D5
The encyclopedia of infectious diseases: REF/RC112.T87 2003
Encyclopedia of Microbiology: REF/QR9.E53 1992
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: REF/RC41.G35 2002
Milestones in Health and Medicine: REF/R133.H36 2000
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