1. BioMedNet • http://www.bmn.com
2. Hardin MD • http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md
3. Healthfinder • http://www.healthfinder.gov
4. HealthWeb • http://healthweb.org
5. JAMA NetSight • http://www.medsitenavigator.com/features/Jama
6. MD Consult • http://www.mdconsult.com
7. MedHunt • http://www.hon.ch
8. Medical Matrix • http://www.medmatrix.org
9. Medical World Search • http://www.mwsearch.com
10. Medscape • http://www.medscape.com
11. MedWeb • http://www.medweb.emory.edu/medweb/default.htm
12. Megasite Project • http://www.lib.umich.edu/megasite
13. Nursing & Health Care Resources on the Net • http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nhcon
14. The Virtual Hospital • http://www.vh.org
15. Web Sites for Internists • http://www.acponline.org
16. WebMedLit • http://www.webmedlit.com
 

CONSUMER HEALTH AND MEDICAL SITES

17. CBSHealthwatch • http://www.cbshealthwatch.com
18. DrKoop.com • http://www.drkoop.com
19. Family Village • http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu
20. familydoctor.org • http://www.familydoctor.org
21. HealthAtoZ • http://www.HealthAtoZ.com
22. InteliHealth • http://www.intelihealth.com
23. Mayo Clinic Health Oasis • http://www.mayohealth.org
24. MD Anderson • http://www.mdanderson.org
25. NOAH (New York Online Access for Health) • http://www.noah.cuny.edu
26. Oncolink • http://cancer.med.upenn.edu
27. Onhealth • http://www.onhealth.com
28. Quackwatch • http://www.quackwatch.com
29. REPRORISK • http://www.micromedex.com/products/pd-reprorisk.htm
30. -Self-Help Sourcebook Online • http://mentalhelp.net/selfhelp
31. ThriveOnline • http://www.thriveonline.com
32. WebMD • http://my.webmd.com
 

CURRENT MEDICAL NEWS

33. 1stHeadlines-Health • http://www.1stheadlines.com/health1.htm
34. CNN • http://cnn.com/HEALTH
35. MSNBC • http://www.msnbc.com/news/HEALTH_Front.asp?ta=y
36. NewsPage • http://www.individual.com/browse/industry.shtml?level1=46610
 

REFERENCE BOOKS ONLINE

[NEW] Books@Ovid • http://www.ovid.com/products/cip/books_at_ovid.cfm
37. The Directory of Medical Specialists • http://www.certifieddoctor.org
38. emedicine.com • http://emedicine.com
39. Harrison's Online • http://www.harrisonsonline.com
40. Iowa Family Practice Handbook • http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/FPContents.html
41. STAT!Ref • http://statref.tetondata.com
 

JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS
(Note: Some of these periodicals are available in print as well as online.)

42. ACP Journal Club • http://www.acponline.org/index.html
43. ADIS Inpharma; ADIS Newsletters; ADIS R&D Insight • http://www.adis.com
44. Annals of Internal Medicine • http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/annaltoc.htm
45. British Medical Journal • http://www.bmj.com
46. Cancer Weekly Plus • http://www.newsrx.com
47. Consumer Reports on Health • http://www.consumerreports.org/Services/health.html
48. Drug Data Report • http://www.prous.es/product/journal/ddr.html
49. Drug Discovery Online • http://www.drugdiscoveryonline.com
50. Drugs of the Future • http://www.prous.es/product/journal/dof.html
51. EContent • http://www.ecmag.net
52. Evidence-Based Medicine • http://www.acponline.org/catalog/journals/ebm.htm
53. F-D-C Reports • http://www.fdcreports.com
54. Genetic Engineering News • http://www.genwire.com
55. JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association • http://jama.ama-assn.org
56. Information Today • https://www.infotoday.com/it/itnew.htm
57. MD Computing • http://www.mdcomputing.com
58. The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics • http://www.medletter.com
59. Medicine on the Net • http://www.mednet-i.com
60. NDA Pipeline • http://www.ndapipeline.com
61. New England Journal of Medicine • http://www.nejm.org
62. NLM Technical Bulletin • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/tb.html
63. Occupational and Environmental Medicine • http://oem.bmjjournals.com
64. Online • http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/index.html
65. PJB Electronic Publishing • http://www.pjbpubs.com
66. Scientific American Medicine Online • http://www.sciam.com
67. Scrip • http://www.pjbpubs.co.uk/scrip/index.html
68. Searcher • https://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm
69. The Pink Sheet • http://www.fdcreports.com/pinkout.shtml
 

ASSOCIATIONS

70. American Cancer Society • http://www.cancer.org
71. American College of Physicians-American Society for Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) • http://www.acponline.org
72. American Dental Association (ADA) • http://www.ada.org
73. American Hospital Association • http://www.aha.org
74. Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors (AAHSL) • http://www.aahsl.org
75. Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) • http://www.aiip.org
76. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) • http://www.astho.org
77. Medical Library Association (MLA) • http://www.mlanet.org
78. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) • http://www.phrma.org
79. Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) • http://www.scip.org
 

UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND RESOURCES
(Note: Some government databases are also available through commercial aggregators, such as Dialog.)

80. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) • http://www.ahrq.gov
81. AGRICOLA-Agricultural Online Access • http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98
82. AIDSDRUGS; AIDSLINE; AIDSTRIALS • http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
83. CANCERLIT • http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cancerlit.html
84. CancerNet • http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov
85. ClinicalTrials.gov • http://clinicaltrials.gov
86. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Index • http://nccam.nih.gov/nccam/resources/cam-ci
87. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) • http://www.epa.gov
88. FDA Consumer • http://www.fda.gov/fdac
89. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) • http://www.fda.gov
90. GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology/Mutagenicity Data Bank) • http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/sis1
91. Grateful Med • http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
92. Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) • http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/sis1
93. HealthSTAR • http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
94. IBIDS • http://odp.od.nih.gov/ods/databases/ibids.html
95. Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) • http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/sis1
96. MEDLINE • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/medline.html
97. MEDLINEplus • http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
98. National Cancer Institute • http://www.nci.nih.gov
99. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) • http://nccam.nih.gov/nccam
100. National Center for Health Statistics • http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
101. National Health Interview Survey • http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
102. National Institutes of Health (NIH) • http://www.nih.gov
103. National Library of Medicine • http://www.nlm.nih.gov
104. NIH Clinical Trials • http://clinicaltrials.gov
105. NIH Consensus Guidelines • http://consensus.nih.gov
106. NIOSHTIC • http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic.html
107. NTIS-National Technical Information Service • http://www.ntis.gov
108. Office of Dietary Supplements • http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov
109. OMIM-Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim
110. Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals • http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners
111. PDQ • http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/pdqfull.html
112. PubMed, PubMed Central • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
113. RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances) • http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/rtecs.html
114. TOXLINE • http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/sis1
115. TOXNET • http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/sis1
 

OTHER GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND RESOURCES

116. BadgerLink (Wisconsin Department of Instruction) • http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/badgerlink
117. EUDRAnet (European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products) • http://www.eudra.org
118. Medical Board of California • http://www.medbd.ca.gov/Verifica.htm
119. Northern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center, Inc. (NAHEC) • http://www.dwave.net/~nahec
120. RISKLINE (Utah Department of Health) • http://www.health.state.ut.us/cfhs/he/prl/service.html
121. Therapeutics Products Programme of Health Canada • http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb-dgps/therapeut
 

DATABASES
(Note: Some databases are available directly from the producer or via the Web; others are available through commercial aggregators.)

122. Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED) (British Library Healthcare Information Service)
Available on Dialog, Ovid, and others. • http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl016 4.html
123. BIOSIS Previews (BIOSIS) • http://www.biosis.org
124. CAB Abstracts (CAB International) • http://www.cabi.org
125. Canadian-International Nurse Researcher Database • http://nurseresearcher.com
126. CenterWatch.com • http://www.centerwatch.com
127. CINAHL (CINAHL Information Systems) • http://www.cinahl.com
128. Cochrane Collaboration; Cochrane Controlled Trials Register; Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews • http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/cochrane
129. Cornell University Material Safety Data Sheets See Material Safety Data Sheets
130. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) (University of York) • http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk
131. EMBASE (Elsevier Science)Available on Dialog, Datastar, Ovid, and others. • http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/2/3/3/2/8
132. ERIC (National Library of Education) • http://www.accesseric.org
133. Gale's Health and Wellness Database (The Gale Group)Available on Dialog and others. • http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl014 9.html
134. IMSWorld Product Launches (IMSWorld)Available on Dialog, Datastar, CAS, and others. • http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl044 6.html
135. IMSWorld R&D Focus (IMSWorld)Available on Dialog, Datastar, CAS, and others. • http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl044 5.html
136. Index to Dental Literature • Included in all versions of MEDLINE.
137. International Nursing Index (INI; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
- Included in all versions of MEDLINE • http://www.lww.com/cgi-bin/wwonline.storefront/808966388/Product/View/0020&2D8124
138. International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Available on Ovid, Dialog, Datastar, and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. • http://www.csa 2.com/detailsV3/ipa.html
139. Investext (The Investext Group)
-Available on Dialog, Factiva, and others. • http://www.investext.com
140. ISI Citation Indexes; ISI Web of Science • See SciSearch
141. MANTIS (Manual Alternative and Natural Therapy) (Healthindex)
- Available on Dialog, DataStar, Ovid, and others. • http://www.healthindex.com/MANTIS.asp
142. Material Safety Data Sheets • http://msds.pdc.cornell.edu
143. NAPRALERT • http://national.chiropractic.edu/academ/napralert.html
144. NME Express (New Molecular Entity Express) (Prous)
- Available through Dialog, DataStar, and others. • http://www.prous.es/product/electron/nme.html
145. Pharmaprojects (PJB Publications)
- Available through Dialog, Ovid, CAS, and others. • http://www.pjbpubs.co.uk/pharma
146. PsycINFO (American Psychological Association); PsycLIT • http://www.apa.org/psycinfo
147. SciSearch (ISI Citation Indexes) (Institute for Scientific Information)
- Available through Dialog, DataStar, STN, Web of Science, and others. • http://www.isinet.com
148. Sigma Theta Tau International's Registry of Nursing Research • http://www.stti.iupui.edu/rnr
 

GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES

149. AltaVista • http://www.altavista.com
150. HotBot • http://hotbot.lycos.com
151. Infoseek (now known as Go.com) • http://infoseek.go.com
152. Lycos • http://www.lycos.com
153. Yahoo! • http://www.yahoo.com
 

DATABASE VENDORS/AGGREGATORS

154. DataStar • http://products.dialog.com/products/datastarweb/index.html
155. Dialog • http://www.dialog.com
156. Dow Jones • http://www.dowjones.com or http://djinteractive.com
157. Northern Light • http://www.northernlight.com
158. Ovid Technologies • http://www.ovid.com
159. STN • http://stnweb.cas.org
 

MISCELLANEOUS

160. Caredata.com • http://www.caredata.com
161. Cyber Dialogue • http://www.cyberdialogue.com
162. EBSCO • http://www.ebsco.com/home
163. eHealthCareWorld Trade Show • http://www.ehealthcareworld.com
164. EduCause • http://www.educause.edu
165. "Exploding head syndrome" hoax • http://www.lunaticlounge.com/fringefiles/explode.html
166. McMaster University • http://www.mcmaster.ca/home.html
167. Micromedex • http://www.micromedex.com
168. OCLC (Online Computer Library, Inc.) • http://www.oclc.org
169. ProQuest • http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com/proquest
170. U.S. Pharmacopoeia • http://www.usp.org
171. University of Michigan Cancer Center • http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu
172. University of Michigan Document Center • http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center
173. University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library • http://www.library.upenn.edu/biomed/
 

ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION LISTS

174. Medical librarians discussion list (MEDLIB-L)
Note: Membership in Medical Library Association not required.
To subscribe, send a message to listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the message type:SUBSCRIBE MEDLIB-L yourfirstname yourlastname
175. SLA Pharmaceutical Division discussion list (sla-dphm)
Note: Membership in Special Libraries Association required. See • http://www.sla.org.
To subscribe, send a message to lists@lists.sla.org. Leave the subject line blank. In the message type: subscribe sla-dphm yourfirstname yourlastname
 

CITED LITERATURE, STUDIES, AND BOOKS

176. "Alternative therapies moving toward the mainstream: Doctors are teaching each other alternative medical procedures like acupuncture," CNN, February 23, 1999. Web posted at: 11:16 p.m. EST • http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9902/23/alternative.mds
177. Buyse, Mary Louise, ed. (1990). Birth Defects Encyclopedia. Dover, Mass.: Blackwell Science, Inc. 178. "The Core of the Bibliographic Apple: Access to Periodicals for Allied Health Sciences Professionals,"
presented May 17, 1993, MLA Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Section Program: Supporting the Information Needs of an Allied Health Clientele. Summary published in NAHRS Newsletter, 1993 (November) 13(2): 17-21. • http://www.library.kent.edu/nahrs
179. Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. • http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dietsupp.html
180. Eisenberg study. • http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/sci-news/1998/snr1111.htm#joc80870
181. Gehanno J. F., Paris C., Thirion B., Caillard J. F., "Assessment of Bibliographic Databases Performance in Information Retrieval for Occupational and Environmental Toxicology," Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1998 Aug; 55(8):562- 6. • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/Entrez/referer?/htbin-post/Entrez/query%3fdb=m&form=6&uid=9849544&Dopt=r
182. Hardman, J. G., et al. (1995). Goodman & Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, ninth edition. McGraw Hill Ryerson. • http://www.mcgrawhill.ca/medical/g&g.htm
183. Haynes, R. B., Wilczynski, N., McKibbon, K. A., Walker, C. J., Sinclair, J. C., "Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound studies in MEDLINE." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1994 Nov-Dec; 1(6):447-58. • http://www.amia.org/pubs/jamia/v01n06/447.htm
184. Hill, D. R., "Brandon/Hill selected list of books and journals for the small medical library." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1999 Apr., 87(2):145-169. • http://www.allenpress.com/mla/issues/vol87/number2/87-2-145.html
185. McKibbon, Ann (1999). PDQ: Evidence-Based Principles and Practice. Hamilton, Ontario: B. C. Decker, Inc. • http://www.bcdecker.com
186. Rugge, Sue and Alfred Glossbrenner. The Information Broker's Handbook. • http://www.ipi-books.com/handbook.html
187. Sackett, David L., W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Haynes (2000). Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM (Evidence Based Medicine), London: Churchill Livingstone. • http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/bookcontents.html

Edited by Reva Basch