Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Medical Databases

Medinfo Guide
http://www.medinfoguide.net/databases.html
Medinfo, an invaluable treasure house of over 14 million scholarly citations, over 1500 full-text Journals, over 1000 full-text books, and a vast multitude of reliable and dependable biomedical information, presented in a variety of content categories, covering the entire gamut of the field of biomedicine, distributed and scattered around the world.
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PubMed
http://www.pubmed.nl/
Links to medical journals, articles, medical libraries, and medical databases, in English and Dutch. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WebMd.com
http://www.webmd.com/
WebMD is a great one-stop medical information site. WebMd also has a lot of interesting interactive calculators, quizzes, and other fun stuff that helps you understand medical information a bit easier.
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Medical Webline
http://www.medicalwebline.com/
A medical portal dedicated to the medical fraternity. It provides information about doctors, hospitals, medical events, medical information, jobs, health watch.
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http://www.HealthAtoZ.com/
Users must go through a free registration process to access the database. Health A to Z is aimed at consumers and includes a search engine, a chat with experts section and several categories with health advice and news such as Health A to Z.
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MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov/
MedlinePlus was developed by the National Library of Medicine to provide consumer health information. It includes guides by health topics, as well as dictionaries, directories, and information on organizations.
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Medndx
http://www.medicalndx.com/
Mednx is a medical search engine provides links to disease disorders, links to drugs and medicine, health fields and health care industry and medical search tools like pubmed, metasearch, research journals, trip cochrane library and provided recently uptodate medical news.
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Medical Search Engines

PubMed
www.pubmed.com
It is a really extensive medical search engine that is a service of the National Library of Medicine. Over 15 million MEDLINE articles and journal citations are available for search.
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Medical world Search
http://www.mwsearch.com/
Medical World Search aims at improving access to medical information by health professionals and consumers by providing intelligent information services and search engines that add value in the medical field compared to products that are oriented at a general market, using recent advances in medical informatics. Through its ties with the academic community, it is able to understand its needs and develop close working relationships with individuals and institutions.
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MedExplorer
Free health/medical search engine for Healthcare Professionals, patients and their families. There are no membership or registration requirements. 28 searchable categories, over 140 searchable newsgroups, searchable Classifieds and the Med Explorer Bookstore and Conferences.
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Article Sciences
Scientific article search and order engine, a service provided by Institut de l''Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France.
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U.S. Natioanal Library of Medicine Gateway
The National Library of Medicine Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Worldhealthcare
http://www.worldhealthcare.net/
A UK based medical search engine providing informative resources from around the globe.
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www.wmed.com
WMed is a website for the discussion of medical topics and health news. Current news from editor selected sources are automatically displayed. Visitors to the website my add interesting news articles from the News feed column on the left side of the screen or may submit their own articles by clicking on "Submit New Story". It is necessary to copy the "URL" to the submit page. Articles are ranked by the number of reader votes they receive.
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MDchoice
http://www.mdchoice.com/
Health and medical information search engine for healthcare professionals and consumers.
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Healthline.com
http://www.healthline.com/
It is a medical information search engine. Healthline is solely dedicated to finding medical information online, and it offers medically filtered results developed by trained medical personnel.
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Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
A free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information, healthfinder can lead you to selected online publications, databases, Web sites, and support and self help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
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http://www.hon.ch/
This Web site is provided by the Health on the Net Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It offers search engines such as Medhunt, which performs free text searches for Web sites and categorizes the results as either HONoured or sites that did not meet HON's criteria, and HONselect, which searches Web sites using MESH subject headings for faster, richer search results.
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MedBioWorld
http://www.medbioworld.com/
Medbioworld offers 25,000 6,000 medical journals in 80 subspecialties, and the home pages of 4,000 medical associations. Other research tools include medical glossaries, disease databases, clinical trials and guidelines, and medical journals offering full-text articles.
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Medscape is a site that allows users (consumer or professional) to search its many database options such as Medical Images, News, and Information for Patients, Clinical Content, MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, and Drug Info. The "Today's Headlines” section is updated daily to provide fresh news for users. Users must register to use the site, but there is no charge for registration or access.
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Hardin Meta Directory
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
Hardin MD's purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health related subjects. Lists that are in Hardin MD are checked regularly to see that they are being well maintained. Access to the database is arranged by subjects and links to lists are provided under the subject headings.
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Indian Medical Open Access Journals

Bombay Hospital Journal
Online access to full text of articles is available from 1996. The articles are available for download free of charge.
Indian Heart Journal
Online access to full text of articles is given from 2001. The full text of articles are available in both .pdf and html formats.

Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Free online access to full text of articles is available from 2000.
Indian Journal of Pharmocology
Free online access to full text of articles is available with effect from Volume 1, 1969.
Indian Paediatrics
This website provides online access to full text of articles from 2000. Also gives access to abstract of articles for 1998 and 1999. Articles are available for download free of cost.
Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
It’s a Online access to full text of papers is available with effect from October-December, 2001.
Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
This site provides access to full text of articles with effect from 1999.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
It provides online access to full text of articles from 1990
Journal of the Academy of Hospital Administration
Online access to full text of articles is available from July 1999.
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Medical Presentations

Medical rounds-Multimedia on demand education
http://www.medicalrounds.com
There are hundreds of free, current, and topical medical presentations for you to view. MedicalRounds webcasts presentations and conferences for many contributing medical groups. All talks are originally presented at recognized quality grand rounds or professional educational meetings.
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Medical Images

Medscape
http://www.medscape.com/
Medscape is a site that allows users (consumer or professional) to search its many database options such as Medical Images, News, and Information for Patients, Clinical Content, MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, and Drug Info. The "Today's Headlines” section is updated daily to provide fresh news for users. Users must register to use the site, but there is no charge for registration or access.

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Med museum
http://www.medmuseum.com/
Medical site related to different organs and diseases of the human body.
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Honmedia
http://www.hon.ch/HONmedia/
HON media is a unique repository of 6800 medical images and videos ,pertaining to 1700 topics and themes

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Medical Open Access Journals

MEDICAL JOURNALS (282 open access journals) Justify Full

Allergy and Immunology (17 journals) Cardiovascular (42 journals) Dermatology (12 journals) Gastroenterology (20 journals) Gynecology and Obstetrics (22 journals) Internal medicine (168 journals) Neurology (63 journals) Oncology (42 journals) Ophthalmology (14 journals)
Otorhinolaryngology (12 journals) Pathology (21 journals) Pediatrics (40 journals) Pharmacy and materia medica (21 journals) Psychiatry (33 journals) Sports Medicine (12 journals) Surgery (58 journals) Therapeutics (45 journals) Urology (15 journals)
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German Medical Science journals
http://www.egms.de/en/journals/index.shtml
Here you can find the electronic journals of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF) and individual member associations with peer-reviewed scientific original papers and surveys.
The articles are immediately and permanently available online without charge.
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Public Library of Science
www.plos.org.
PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. For more information about PLoS, visit
PLoS ONE is indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Scopus, Google Scholar, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), EMBASE, AGRICOLA, Zoological Records, and RefAware, as well as being searchable via the Web of Knowledge. In addition, PLoS ONE is formally archived via PubMed Central and LOCKSS.
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BIO-LINE INTERNATIONAL
http://www.bioline.org.br/journals
Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries including INDIA. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security and biodiversity that would not otherwise be readily available to researchers in the developed world, or even within the country of publication..
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BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/
Its provides free access to 199 peer-reviewed journals and subscription-based access to reviews, commentaries and other information services in all the areas of biology and medicine.
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Electronic Journals Library
The Electronic Journals Library offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet. This site is providing journals with and without cost.
Particularly, in medicine it is providing more 8000 journals.
This service has been developed at the University Library of Regensburg in cooperation with the University Library of the Technical University of Munich.
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Freemedicaljournals.com
Free Medical Journals – is providing important medical journals and books online, free and in full-text.
If you wish to be informed about new free journals, you may subscribe to Journal Alert. The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet.
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Health Journals: Free for Developing Economies
This site provides journals free online access to developing economies, based on either programs such as HINARI, or on a HighWire-based program offering access to countries appearing in the World Bank's list of "low income economies," plus Djibouti. No need to sign up, the site automatically recognises from which country you are accessing.
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PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, which can be downloaded with free of cost.
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MedIND: Database of fulltext of Indian Medical Jls
One point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED journals. It has been designed to provide quick and easy access through searching or browsing.
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Public Health Open Access Journals

Public Health Open Access Journals
The following site give a link to 121 Public Health Journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=21