Internet Public Library Ready Reference Collection 

Martindale's: The Reference Desk 

MEDICAL REFERENCE-DICTIONARIES

Deciphering Medspeak

MedBioWorld: Medicine Reference Tools  

Medterms Medical Dictionary/Medicinenet 

MEDICAL REFERENCE-DIRECTORIES-PEOPLE

AMA Phsycian Select 

Certification Matters / American Board of Medical Specialties

DocFinder/Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors 

MEDICAL REFERENCE - DIRECTORIES-ORGANIZATIONS

For these links, refer to large, cooperative efforts with listings by specialty or search for the organization name on a search engine such as Google. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE - DIRECTORIES-INSTITUTIONS

American Hospital Directory 

HospiceDirectory.org 

Best Hospitals (U.S. News Online) 

MEDICAL REFERENCE - DIRECTORIES-MEETINGS/CONFERENCES

Congress Resource Centre - Doctor's Guide 

Medical Meetings Web Search 
Worldwide meetings and CME 

MEDICAL REFERENCE-DRUG RESOURCES

American Association of Poison Control Centers 

Drug InfoNet 
Includes details from package inserts and consumer pamphlets for many drugs, links to manufacturers' sites and an "ask an expert" section.

Electronic Orange Book- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations 

FDA New and Generic Drug Approvals

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide 
A peer-reviewed database aimed at medical professionals offers frequently updated information on antibiotics and their proper use. Searchable by diagnosis, pathogen, antibiotic type, or keyword. Free registration is required. 

New Medicines / PhRMA
Information about medicines in development.

Recently Approved Drugs or Indications- Doctors Guide 

RxList 
Features the Top 200 list of drugs prescribed in the U.S 

SafeMedication.com
The drug information in this searchable database is based on American Society of Hospital Pharmacists' Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information. " People taking several or complex medications will find this guide particularly useful." 

US Pharmacopeia 
Resource for drug standards, drug information, dietary supplements and veterinary medicines. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE-HANDBOOKS

CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases Travelers' Health 

eMedicine 

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 

Merck Manual of Geriatrics 

Merck Manual of Medical Information 
Consumer health information in 2 versions, text-based or interactive. 

National Health Observances 

MEDICAL REFERENCE-NEWS

CNN.com HEALTH 

Reuters Health Information 
For the consumer, the health industry and the professional. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE-INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences 
Links to Web sites providing instructions to authors for over 3,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources," i.e. publishers or organizations, with editorial responsibilities for particular titles. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE - STATISTICS

CDC Data and Statistics 

Census Bureau State Data Centers 

FedStats 
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies. 

Finding and Using Health Statistics 
An excellent self-study course that explains a lot of the "why and why not" questions regarding health statistics. 

Health Statistics 
A guide to health statistics on the Web and in the library. Includes organizations and associations that collect statistics as well as government agencies. 

National Center for Health Statistics 

Statistical Abstract of the United States 

World Health Organization Statistical Information System 

GENERAL MEDICAL COLLECTIONS

These sites are provided in lieu of lengthy lists of specialty or disease specific sites. Hospital libraries may want to provide specific links to those sites depending upon their clinical specialties or patient mix. 

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics (Karolinska Institutet, maintained by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) 
MeSH classified list of free resources. 

Hardin MD 
This is a list of lists for health subjects from Hardin Library for Health Sciences at Univ. of Iowa. Extensive and interdisciplinary links include selections from other metasites, indexes and specialized quality sites which might be overlooked by the larger indexes. 

HealthLinks: Diseases and Common Conditions 
Developed by the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries in 1995. Patient Toolkit has nice collection of links for consumers. 

Medscape 
Reliable, multi-specialty, clinical information for providers and consumers. Free registration is required. 

National Library for Health 
The NLH Program is working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public.

Virtual Pediatric Hospital 
Digital health sciences library created at the University of Iowa for both health professionals and patients.  A related site is the Virtual Naval Hospital, a service of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

MEDLINEplus 

Topics, accessible by browsing, searching or selecting a category, contain comprehensive lists of links to authoritative sources of full-text information. Includes current health news, dictionaries, ADAM health encyclopedia, drug info and directories. 

MEDLINEplus Tutorials 
Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics, each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. Audio is also available. 

Healthfinder 
A gateway sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion leading to consumer information, online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and self-help groups 

NORD 
The National Organization for Rare Diseases, Inc.is a federation of more than 140 not-for-profit voluntary health organizations serving people with rare disorders and disabilities. A Rare Disease Database, an Organizational Database and an Orphan Drug Database are provided on this site. Fees are charged for full-text reports. 

NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) 
NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased in both English and Spanish. 

NIH Health Information 
NIH Health Information Index 2000 as well as other useful, authoritative health links. 

Healthcentral 
One of the many consumer sites that look increasingly similar, featuring personalized interactive tools, risk assessments, etc. Notable for the presence of the popular Dr. Dean Edell as well as medical librarian Rochelle Schmalz and other interesting columnists. 

WebMD
Provide materials from contracted suppliers as well as some original material from their own professional staff. 

ALLIED HEALTH

American Occupational Therapy Association 

American Physical Therapy Association 

National Rehabilitation Association 

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

The Alt Med Primer 

HerbMed 
An evidence-based herbal database with  hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. 

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 

NIH Office of Dietary Supplements 
Information and links including IBIDS Dietary Supplements database. 

CLINICAL TRIALS

Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service 

ClinicalTrials.Gov 
Produced by NIH and NLM as a resource for patients and families. 

DIET & NUTRITION

American Dietetic Association on the Net 

Center For Food Safety And Applied Nutrition (FDA) 

Center for Science in the Public Interest 
CSPI is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional 
quality of the food supply. 

Cyberdiet 
Cyberdiet features peer-reviewed nutritional information, interactive tools and discussion groups. 

Food and Nutrition Information Center 
FNIC, located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), collects and disseminates information about food and human nutrition. Includes 

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005

Nutrition.Gov 
A portal to the extensive, online nutrition information available through the agencies of the Federal Government. 

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 

DIVERSITY & MULTICULTURAL HEALTH

Diversity and Cultural Competency in Medicine 
Materials from the American Medical Students Association for use in training and with patients. 

DiversityRX 
Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities. 

Ethnomed 
Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.

Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Health
A public health resource from Seattle and King County Board of Health. 

NIH Office of Research in Minority Health 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

BioMed Central 
An online publishing site for research articles in all areas of biomedical research with full peer review and no barriers to access of any kind. Submission is online and authors retain copyright. All original articles are published in one of the BioMed Central journals, posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed. 

Free Medical Journals 
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. 

HighWire Press 
HighWire, the Internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries, produces 250 sites online, with many more planned. The electronic versions provide enhanced versions of the information provided in the printed journals. A list of free titles is provided. 

New Jour Electronic Journals and Newsletters 
An Announcement List for new serials on the Internet.

PubList.Com / The Internet Directory of Publications 
A database of information on over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and other periodicals. 

PubMed Central 
A free access, web-based archive of journal literature the life sciences. It is being developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) 

ETHICS

Bioethics.Net 
The Internet's first and largest site on bioethics, visited (according to Medical Matrix) more than any other bioethics site on the Internet. Produced and supported by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Bioethics for Clinicians 
This CMAJ series is intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice. 

Ethics in Medicine - University Of Washington 
Includes topics, cases and resources useful for teaching medical students. 

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature 

EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE

Bandolier Evidence-Based Health Care 

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine 

JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature 

New York Academy of Medicine Section on Evidence-Based Health Care

Understanding and Evaluating Medical Information (Evidence-based) (NOAH)

HEALTH INFORMATICS

American Medical Informatics Association 

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 

LEGAL/LEGISLATIVE RESOURCES

CMS Regulations & Guidance

GPO Access 
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government. (Includes Federal Register, CFR, US Code full text) 

GovSpot 
"A non-partisan government information port designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online." 

Health Hippo 
A large collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care from advance directives and BBA to HIPAA to wired health. 

Health Law (Findlaw)
A source directed to lawyers and law students with FindLaw Resources, Health Law Web Guide, Related FindLaw Guide Pages. A primer of doing legal research online is available.

Health Law (Legal Information Institute)

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet 
A service of the Library of Congress 

WashLaw Web - Washburn Law Library 

MEDICAL IMAGES

Gray's Anatomy 
The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings-many in color-from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index 

HONmedia/Health on the Net 
HONmedia is a repository of over 6,800 medical images and videos on 1,7000 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON; new image links are constantly being added from the Web. 

Medical Images Dictionary (FindLaw) 
These illustrations were developed for such legal matters as medical malpractice, personal injury, and worker's compensation. Each illustration was prepared by a professional medical illustrator to medically accurate standards. 

Webpath Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education 

NURSING

American Nurses Association-Nursing World 

NursingCenter (formerly known as AJN Online) 

Martindale's Health Science Guide Virtual Nursing Center 

Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web
Maintained by librarians at SUNY-Buffalo. 

Worldwide Nurse 
International nursing resources with wide variety of categorized resources in many different nursing specialties, plus links to nursing schools, career information, boards of nursing, and nursing humor. 

PRACTICE GUIDELINES

National Guideline Clearinghouse 

Health Services/Technology Assessment Text 

Practice Guidelines Websites  

QUALITY INDICATORS

Best Hospitals (U.S. News Online) 

HealthGrades 
Grades the performances of hospitals, physicians, health plans, nursing homes and other health care facilities. 

JCAHO Quality Check 

NCQA 
NCQA is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to evaluate and report on the quality of the nation's managed care organizations. 

RESIDENTS/STUDENTS

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 

American Medical Student Association 

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 
Also includes 

Medical Schools

Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) 

Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) 
Includes application information, residency requirements, contacts, and useful links. 

FREIDA Online/ Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database 

National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) 

ResidentWeb 
The "for residents, by residents" site. Residency and Fellowship finding aids are featured. 

WEB TUTORIALS

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web 
"You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back whenever you need to." 

Finding Information on the Internet 
This tutorial presents the substance of the Internet Workshops offered year-round by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Handouts, Powerpoint slides, and other class materials are available online. 

A Guide to the Internet for Medical Practitioners (BMJ) 

Net.TUTOR 
Offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher. 

SEARCHING THE INTERNET

There should be a section of links to your favorite search engines, directories, metasearch engines and medical search engines. Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Showdown and the University of California, Berkeley tutorial should be checked every few months to keep up-to-date in this area. 

EVALUATION

Code Of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites (Health On The Net Foundation) 
Eight principles that make up a good health-related web site. Available in 13 languages. 

Web Site Evaluation Checklist 
Two checklists to print and use when looking at any Web site. With criteria and questions to ask about content, design, and access. The first uses a 5-point ranking system and the second uses weighted yes/no answers. Pages can score up to 80 points on each checklist. 

Web Site Evaluation Criteria 
Based upon questions related to a site's credibility, intended audience, ease of access, currency, sources, design and comparability to other sites. 

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