A Guide to Medical Research

Online Reference Books

Many additional medical reference books may be found in the Reference Collection in the QP-QW and the W classifications or may be found using SIMON, the online catalog.

• Encyclopedia of Bioethics
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Public Health
  
  
• Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
  
  
• Harrison's Online
  -a full-text medical reference book
  
  
• MD Consult
  - Includes over 40 electronic medical reference books
  
  
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy
  -a full text medical reference book that offers clear, concise

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Books

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  -locate books and other resources at Le Moyne College
  
  
• Connect NY
  -a shared catalog of college libraries; can request books for delivery in 48 hours or less
  
  
• WorldCat
  -locate books in other libraries ; can request books for delivery to our Library

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Best Research Tools

• PubMed
  • Begin your searches with PubMed -- has best quality of indexing and greatest coverage of the medical literature
  • Can use MeSH (National Library of Medicine Subject Headings) to search this database
  • Has links to citations for related articles
  • Links to free full text when it is available
  • When full text is not available, search Simon (Print and Electronic journal titles) to see if Library has the journal
    
    
  MD Consult
  • Great resource for in-depth medical reference texts and for full text journal articles
  • Includes:
    • Over 40 electronic medical reference books where the full text can be searched and displayed.
    • Over 50 professional medical journals where the full-text can be searched and displayed.
    • Comprehensive and up-to-date drug information
    • Clinical practice guidelines
    
    
• First Consult
  • Excellent resource for quick access to evidence-based clinical information
  • Updated continually
  • Includes
    • differential diagnosis tool
    • Concise information about medical topics and efficient descriptions of procedures
    • Patient handouts (in multiple languages)
  
  
• Cochrane Library
  • Contains indexing and abstracting for approximately 1000 scholarly journals with 430 in full text.
  • Particularly good for finding a single article on a topic. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine is integrated within the resource.
  • Medline's indexing is in greater depth. It is recommended for most searching.
  • This title does not index many available full-text articles found in ScienceDirect, Ideal or other sources.
  
  
• CINAHL
• Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
• Can search with keywords or using MeSH (National Library of Medicine Subject Headings)
• Includes full text of articles when available
• When full text is not available, search Simon (Print and Electronic journal titles) to see if Library has the journal

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Specialized Resources on the Web

• Aidsline on PubMed
• Search PubMed (Medline) with results limited to materials on AIDS and HIV



• Bioethics on PubMed
  • Search PubMed (Medline) with results limited to materials on bioethics



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  • Guide to consumer health resources



• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  • Search PubMed with results limited to materials on alternative medicine



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• • Resources on drugs and pharmaceuticals



• Medical Images on the Web
  • Directory of websites containing interesting and useful medical images (historical and current)



• National Center for Health Statistics
  • United States health statitics
  
  
  
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Evidence-based clinical practices guidelines

• OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  • Genetics and genetic disease database
  
  
  
• Quackwatch
  • Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions