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The useful website links are arranged according to the following topics:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome | Alerts & Feeds, Current Awareness & Health News |Author Instructions | Citing & Information management | Complementary & Alternative medicine | Consumer Health | Dictionaries | e-Books | Education in health sciences | Evidence-Based Medicine | Food Science | Open access medical journals | Fulltext | Health Sciences Faculties, South Africa | History of Medicine | Images | Information Literacy | JAMA Topic Collections | Portals & Search Engines | Newspapers | Nursing | Organisations, Associations & Government | Organisations / International | Pharmacy | Publishers, booksellers, multimedia | Reference Tools | RSS | Statistics (SA and World) | Theses & Dissertations | Tutorials
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS Foundation of South Africa
UNAIDS The joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic.
Author Instructions
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences – Produced by the Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio. This site provides links to “authors instructions” in hundreds of health sciences journals.
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals – From the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Citing electronic (& print) sources & information management
Abbreviations for journals indexed by MEDLINE & other electronic sources
APA Electronic Reference Formats
APA Style guide From the University of Alberta
APA Style – includes in text parenthetical citations which provides guidelines on how to use parenthetical citations to cite original sources in the text of your paper. From the University Wisconsin-Madison
Citation machine Free citation formatting aid
Harvard system – Guide to the Harvard referencing system compiled at the Anglia Polytechnic University.
Index Medicus journal abbreviations
International committee of medical journal editors
ISIHighlyCited.com an expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide.
Plagiarism and referencing/citing of resources
Complementary & Alternative medicine
HOM-Inform Database of indexed literature references in homoeopathy produced by the British Homeopathy Library at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. Features more than 25,000 article and book references.
International bibliographic information on Dietary supplements (IBIDS) very comprehensive database through partnership between Food and Nutrition Information Centre at the National Agricultural Library. Provides abstracts and advanced searching options for international literature on dietary supplements, as well as complementary & alternative medicine in general
Consumer Health
CDC Health Topics A – Z – From the Centre for Disease Control
Health Finder – A gateway to consumer health information from the United States government
Consumer Health Information – From the National Institutes of Health
MEDLINEplus – from the National Library of Medicine
Current Awareness and RSS
BioMedNet News Alert provides weekly updates on the latest news for life science researchers.
Current Awareness: keeping up to date with research in Biology and Medicine – from Dartmouth Biomedical libraries
Current Bibliographies in Medicine – Each bibliography in this series covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. From NLM, the National Library of Medicine.
JAMA alerts
Science Magazine Alerts & feeds from the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Science Direct Current awareness with RSS
The Scientific world – provides free article alerts from 20,000+ journals.
Sara Scholarly Articles Research Alerting is a service designed to deliver by e-mail, tables of contents for any issue of Carfax, Martin Dunitz, Psychology Press, Routledge or Taylor & Francis journals to anyone who has requested the information. This service is completely free of charge.
Web of Science – Instructions for the editing and running of saved queries are available on Web of Science.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries – Provides numerous links to linguistic and specialized (medical) dictionaries, originally from Bucknell University.
Medical eponyms A comprehensive biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Aim is to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.
Mediweb
Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary
Evidence-Based Medicine
ACP medicine – High quality, peer-reviewed, practical reference that responds to the practitioner’s need for current, evidence-based information and answers.
Bandolier – Features short evaluations/discussions of individual articles dealing with evidence-based clinical practice.
Centre for Evidence based medicine from Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford. How to Learn, teach and practice EBM.
E-Medicine – World medical library (some information may be fee-based)
Evidence- based Medicine Toolkit – This is a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. The appraisal tools are adapted from the Users’ Guides series prepared by the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and originally published in JAMA.
Evidence-Based Health Care Resources on the Internet – By the Medical Library Association.
Evidence-based-health discussion list
Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews from Annals of Internal Medicine, April 1, 1997
National Electronic Library for Health – By the United Kingdom’s NHS.
National Guideline Clearinghouse – Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from government agencies & health care organizations.
OTSeeker Occupational therapy database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised
Oxford University Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Pedro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and
Related Sources for searching for systematic reviews
S A Health info – For reviews, including evidence-based health information focusing on Southern Africa.
ScHARR Netting the Evidence – Intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. From Sheffield’s Centre for Health and Related Research (ScHARR).
Users’ guide to the medical literature – Tools and information for EBM.
Food Science
Food Science Central – A platform for new scientific information, products & services.
FSTA Food science & Technology Abstracts – This database contains international literature on food science, technology, and human nutrition. Links to selected full-text articles is provided.
Full-text
JAMA Topic Collections select “Collections” or stay connected with e-mail alerts. To view articles published in JAMA on the topic. You can sign up to receive a Collection E-Mail Alert when new articles on specific topics are published.
JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collections The JAMA & Archives Collections include all the JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collection terms with articles indexed across all issues of JAMA & Archives Journals from January 1998 forward.
Journals@OVID – Lippincott Williams & Wilkens jounals
Health Sciences Faculties, South-Africa
University of Johannesburg. Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town. Health Sciences Faculty
University of Kwazulu-Natal. Faculty of Medicine
University of Port Elizabeth. Health Sciences Faculty
University of Pretoria. Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Health Sciences
University of the Free State. Faculty of Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand. Faculty of Health Sciences
History of Medicine
Greek Medicine – Medicine from the Gods to Galen
Hippocratic Oath from Harvard Classics, Volume 38. Boston: P.F. Collier and Son, 1910
History of medicine Images Provides access to nearly 60,000 prints & photograph collection images in the Hisory of Medicine Division of the US National Library of Medicine. The collection includes portraits, pictures and caricatures.
MedHist The history of medicine gateway to evaluated, high quality Internet resources in the history of medicine and alled sciences. It provides access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources.
Images
MedPix Medical Image database. Peer-reviewed teaching files. Free registration required.
Sciencemagazine Multimedia pulls together a variety of features built around images, online video, and audio that can be found on the Science sites.Listen to weekly audiocasts on stories featured in Science and its online companion sites and more.
Information Literacy
Evaluating Internet sources – by P. Morrison from the Learning Resource Center, Grossmont College.
Guidelines for students: Information Literacy – A students’ resource to learn how to master information challenges. Developed for the Cape Higher Education Consortium.
Mitretek A tool for assessing Internet information.
Plagiarism and referencing/citing of resource
JAMA Topic Collections select “Collections” or stay connected with e-mail alerts. To view articles published in JAMA on the topic. You can sign up to receive a Collection E-Mail Alert when new articles on specific topics are published.
JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collections The JAMA & Archives Collections include all the JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collection terms with articles indexed across all issues of JAMA & Archives Journals from January 1998 forward.
Medical portals & Search Engines
Best of the best Megasites
BIOME A collection of gateways that provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. It is based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library.
DocMD.com The ultimate physician and healthcare resource. Provides new information and links to useful medical information available on the internet.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources
Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT’s audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups.
HealthWeb provides organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources.
Hippocratic Oath from Harvard Classics, Volume 38. Boston: P.F. Collier and Son, 1910.
Human Genome Project Information
Megasite project – Compares health information megasites and search engines
Medscape offers free access to Medline, more than 200 free CME courses, 25 medical speciality sites, more than 100 free medical journals, conference coverage and daily medical news.
MedWeb by Emory University.
National Electronic library for health a portal from NHS, United Kingdom.
National Library of Medicine contains details about all of the services offered by the NLM. This includes services such as PubMed, the Visible Human Project, the history of medicine, and links to sources of Health information.
OMNI offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering health medicine.
South African health information
The Virtual Hospital A digital library of health information.
News & newspapers
Reuters Health Information Services
Nursing
Hardin Meta Directory: Nursing
Internet Resources for Nurse Practitioners
Martindale’s Virtual Nursing Center
Nursing History from Brownson’s Nursing Notes
SANC The South African Nursing Council
Organisations, Associations & Government
AHPCSA Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa
Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)
HPCSA Health Professions Council of South Africa
SANC The South African Nursing Council
South African Medical Association
South African Government Online
Organisations / International
PLoS a non-profit organization whose mission is to make reliable scientific and medical literature a public resource has two open-access journals PLoS Biology and PLos Medicine.
Pharmacy
Centre for International Ethno-medical Education and Research
FDA’s Electronic Orange Book Approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations.
FDA’s OTC Drugs Over-the-Counter Drugs
HealthWeb: Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Industry News – from pharmacyandtherapeutic.com
TOXNET – Toxicology Data Network from the National Library of Medicine
World-class Drug Information by Gold Standard Multimedia Network. Free registration.
Publishers & Booksellers
Alibris for new-, used- and rare titles
Barnes & Noble online bookseller
Elsevier Health Sciences medical publishers
Greenwich Medical Media Ltd Publishers of medical books
Humana Press Scientific & medical publishers
Internet Bookshop Europe’s Largest Online Bookshop
LWW Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Textbook Publisher
National Academy Press publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.
Palgrave represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests of WH Freeman, Worth Publishers, Sinauer Associates, University Science Books and Scientific American Medicine Books in the UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India and Pakistan.
Pan American Health Online Bookstore
Publishers & Booksellers, Research (general)
Quality Medical Publishing publish in a number of surgical specialities
Reference Tools
Citation machine Free citation formatting aid
Plagiarism and referencing/citing of resources
Science Careers networking for scientists, tips for writing a good CV and much more
RSS
Science Direct Current awareness with RSS
Statistics Sources (World or International)
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Community health status indicators project developed by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Health status reports for all 3,082 US counties. Acrobat reader is required for viewing documents.
South Africa. Dept of Health. Facts & Statistics
UNICEF Statistical data
WHOSIS. WHO Statistical information system a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.
World Health report from the WHO
Theses and Dissertations
Nexus database reflects research that is done in South Africa in the humanities and social sciences. Includes information for current and completed research, research networking and research organisations.
University of Johannesburg. Electronic Theses and dissertations.
University of the Witwatersrand. Electronic Theses and dissertations.
University of Stellenbosch. Electronic Theses and dissertations.
University of Pretoria. Electronic Theses and dissertations.
National and International. Electronic Theses and dissertations.
Tutorials
Cinahl scroll down to find Cinahl basic and advanced searching tutorials under Product Specific Tutorials.
Citing of references & Paraphrasing/quoting Including when to cite, what to cite and how to cite.
The Cochrane Library short demonstrations designed to provide quick and informative overviews to end users
MD Consult tutorial takes less than 5 minutes to load.
OVID Tutorial OVID Training and documentation.
RDN Virtual Training Suite – A set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. You can work in your own time at your own pace – no one is monitoring you! The tutorials take around one hour to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience.
RefWorks – allows users to create personal databases and use them for a variety of research activities. References are quickly and easily imported from text files or online databases. The databases can then be used to manage, store, and share the information. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds.
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