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The CINAHL Database. Glendale: Cinahl Information Systems, 1982-.
An electronic database of publications related to nursing research and practice. The database provides references to articles, books and book chapters, pamphlets and other documents, as well as standards of professional practice and research. This work provides bibliographic citations, descriptive abstracts, and the full texts of materials; it is updated monthly. The print version, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, covers 1977 to the present.
PubMed.
A free Web site hosted by the National Library of Medicine. The site offers access to MEDLINE, the most complete index to medical research with over 11 million abstracts of medical publications.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A wealth of current information on disease and public health topics; includes a search engine.
http://www.cdc.govHealthWeb.
A vast collection of sites selected by librarians at 20 health sciences libraries. The site provides links on specialty areas such as pediatrics, nursing, and sports medicine as well as on topics such as bioethics, rural health, and alternative medicine. HealthWeb is a collaborative project of a number of health sciences libraries and is supported by the National Library of Medicine. It is hosted by the University of Illinois, Chicago.
http://healthweb.org/index.cfm The Merck Manual Home Edition.
Full text of the standard medical handbook, written for the nonspecialist. This work can be searched or viewed by table of contents.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_homeThe more technical version of The Merck Manual is also available online.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanualThe Merck Manual Home Edition and The Merck Manual are also available in print format.
National Center for Health Statistics.
A source for public health and vital statistics of all kinds gathered by a unit of the Centers for Disease Control.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchsVirtual Hospital.
A digital health sciences library from the University of Iowa intended to provide current and authoritative information for health-care providers and patients. The site offers materials organized by type (from a health professional's perspective) and by problem or symptom (from a patient's perspective).
http://www.vh.org
Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Ed. Kenneth F. Kiple. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
A scholarly guide to the history of specific diseases across time and in all parts of the world.
Cecil Textbook of Medicine. Ed. Lee Goldman and J. Claude Bennet. 21st ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2000.
A general textbook of medicine; available in electronic format.
Conn's Current Therapy 2001. Ed. Robert E. Rackel and Edward T. Bope. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2001.
A guide to current diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries.
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Karen Boyden et al. 5 vols. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.
Covers basic consumer information on hundreds of medical disorders, tests, and treatments.
Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research. Ed. Ada Sue Hinshaw et al. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1999.
Provides a comprehensive review and critique of current nursing research.
The Oxford Medical Companion. Ed. John Nicholas Walton et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
An alphabetical set of articles, some brief and others quite long, on the knowledge base and practice of medicine, including medicine and government, medical ethics, and medical law. Some short biographies of important figures in medicine are also included.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Ed. Thomas Stedman. 27th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000.
Brief definitions of medical terms; available in electronic format.
