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• Access Medicine
  
  AM is an institutional subscription and provides access to 28 medical textbooks, including: Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment; Harrison's Online, Lange Educational Library - Clinical Science and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery.

 

• Acronymfinder
  
  Is a searchable database of over 4 million acronyms, abbreviations and meanings.
  

 

• ADAM Medical Encyclopedia (MEDLINEPlus)
  
  The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.

 

• AHRQ (US)
  
  The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care (Clinical Practice Guidelines).

 

• Amedeo
  
  Amedeo offers weekly literature overviews in scientific medicine. Select a topic, define your favourite journals.

 

• Annual reviews
  
  Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.

 

 

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• B-ON (Biblioteca Conhecimento Online)
  
  The consortia Online Knowledge Library -  b-on gives access to journals and e-books, to Portuguese research and educational institutions, through national agreements with the most relevant scientific publishers.

 

• BioMedCentral
  
  BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 258 peer-reviewed open access journals.

 

• Breast Cancer Resource Guide of CT
  
  Guide reviewed by UConn School of Medicine

 

 

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• Complementary & Alternative medicine
  
  Homepage from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a NIH's agency for scientific research on the diverse health care systems and practices.

 

• Cancer International (WHO)
  
  Homepage from the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

 

• Carcinogenic Potency Database
  
  This homepage provides a broad perspective on possible cancer hazards from human exposures to chemicals that cause cancer.
  
  
  
• Cardiosource (American College of Cardiology)
  
  Offers research, information, ongoing clinical trials, and news regarding cardiovascular health.
  
  
  
• ChemID plus Advanced (NLM)
  
  Chemical Information Resources pointing to biomedical information( from National Library of Medicine).     
  
  

• Current Bibliographies in Medicine (NLM Resource Lists, US)
  
  Provided by the National Library of Medicine. Each bibliography covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. Available online back to 1992.

 

• Current Opinion Series (b-on)
  
  The Current Opinion collection has been developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. Elsevier’s Current Opinion journals comprise of 13 leading titles in life sciences and adjacent fields [Cell Biology, Chemical Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics & Development, Immunology, Microbiology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology,Structural Biology, Virology).

 

 

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• DARE-  Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
  
  A collection of high quality systematic research reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions in the areas of diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening and treatment. This database is fully integrated with MEDLINE. targeting particular kinds of studies, e.g. therapeutics, diagnosis, etiology, etc; or searching the complete text of each article review.

 

• DART Europe
  
  DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
  

 

• Directory of Open Access Journals
  
  Directory of Open Access Journals aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals and to promote their increased usage and impact. Journals included in the repository all exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review system.

 

• Drug Information Portal (NLM)
  
  The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. More than 31,000 drugs can be searched using this facility. The PubMed link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug.

 

• Drugs.com
  
  Drugs.com is an online pharmaceutical encyclopedia which provides drug information.

 

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• ELS Citable Reviews in the Life Sciences (WILEY)
  
  The articles within ELS are written by leaders in the field to provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage.

 

• Emerald
  
  A collection of electronic resources including full text journal articles, case studies, reviews and abstracts. • Topics include: –Business, Management & Strategy. Health & Social Care.

 

• ERIC
  
  ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

 

• EUROPEANA
  
  Europeana's vision is to make cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way. Europeana Foundation runs the Europeana portal and coordinates the network of contributing cultural institutions, currently around 2,200.

 

 

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• Free Books 4 Doctors
  
  Provide access to free full-text books.

 

• Free Medical Journals
  
  Provides access to free medical journals.

 

 

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• GenBank (National Library of Medicine's PubMed)
  
  GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42).  GenBank is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. Search GenBank for sequence identifiers and annotations with Entrez Nucleotide.

 

• Genetics reference
  
  Genetics Home Reference is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes related to those conditions.
  

 

• GQuery (Entrez Life Sciences - NCBI Global Cross-database Search)
  
  It is a NCBI Global Cross-database Search in PubMed Health, NLM Catalog, PubMed, PMC, Taxonomy , PubChem compounds, PubChemclinical Substances (medical effectiveness, disease and drug reports).

 

• Google Books
  
  Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search.
  

 

• Google Scholar
  
  Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
  

 

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• Heal Collection
  
  The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. The collection is now housed at the University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library.
  
  
   
• Healthline
  
  Healthline offers comprehensive information guides, articles, and medical news on Health topics A - Z, as well as more interactive resources such as a symptom checker and body map tool.
   

• History of Medicine (US)
  
  The NLM's History of Medicine Division collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world's richest collections of historical material related to human health and disease.

 

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• Images: Organ System Pathology
  
  Sections of the WebPath images are available for viewing below by organ system. In each organ system is a series of images demonstrating pathologic findings for a variety of disease processes. A description accompanies each image.
  

 

• Images: Urbana Atlas of Pathology
  
  Overview of General Pathology and Cardiovascular Pathology, provided by University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, legends by Patricia J. O'Morchoe, M.D. Images from material collected by Donald R. Thursh, M.D. and Dr. P. J. O'Morchoe.
  
  
  

• Index de Revistas Médicas Portuguesas
  
  This database provides access to portuguese Thesis and medical journals . Users of this site must register.
  
  
  
• Institute for Global Tobacco Control
  
  This searchable bibliography was a collaborative effort between the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health. This bibliography includes abstracts of millions of key articles cited.
  

 

 

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• Jablonski's Multiple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (MCA/MR) Syndromes Database
  
  Syndromes database provided by NLM Archives.

 

• Journal Citation Reports
  
  Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data.

 

• Journals for Free
  
  Journals4Free provides a large database of links to more than 10,000 journals with open access available on the web.

 

• JSTOR
  
  JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources provided by UNL. Includes Medicine and Allied Health titles.
  
  

 

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• Lab tests online
  
  Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.
  

 

• Lexi-Comp
  
  Helping healthcare professionals make safer and faster decisions with easy to use clinical information, advanced technology, and superior customer service.
  

 

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• Medical Dictionary (Merriam-Webster from MedlinePlus)
  
  MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information for free, here as the Merriam Webster medical dictionary.

 

• Medical Encyclopedia
  
  The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia, provided by MedlinePlus, includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustration.
  

 

• Medline Plus
  
  MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's free Web site for patients. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.
  
  
• Medscape
  
  Users of this site must register. The user then selects a subject site. There is no "homepage" but users can select other subjects or search. Free MEDLINE is available as well as value added.

 

• Medscape Reference
  
  Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools.
  

 

• MedTerms Dictionary
  
  MedTerms medical dictionary is the medical reference for MedicineNet.com. Our doctors define difficult medical language in easy-to-understand explanations of over 16,000 medical terms.
  

 

• MICAD Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database
  
  The Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database (MICAD) is an online source of scientific information regarding molecular imaging and contrast agents (under development, in clinical trials or commercially available for medical applications) that have in vivo data (animal or human) published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
  

 

• My Cancer genome
  
  My Cancer Genome is a freely available online personalized cancer medicine knowledge resource for physicians, patients, caregivers and researchers.

 

 

 N

 

• Neurologic Disorders
  
  Alphabetical list of currently known Human Neurological Conditions with links to definitions for each disorder.
  

 

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• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  
  Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available through PubMed/MEDLINE.
  
  
  
• OpenMD
  
  OpenMD searches billions of documents from government agencies, global health organizations, medical journals and reference sites.
  
   

• Open Science Directory (EBSCO)
  
  A global search tool for all open access and special programs journals.
  
  
  
• OurWorldinData
  
  Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

 

 

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• PEDro
  
  PEDro has been informing physiotherapy. It is a free database with many trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.
  
  
  
• PLoS
  
  The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization that publishes freely available open access journals covering all aspects of life science and medicine. PLoS publishes peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles.
  
  
  
• Population Division, United Nations
  

 

• PsycLine
  
  PSYCLINE's Journal Locator is an index of 2,000+ online psychology and social science journals. It links you to journal home pages and journal information on the web.
  

 

• PubMed
  
  PubMed offers free, online access to the National Institute of Medicine’s MEDLINE databases. The site provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. If a publisher has a web site that offers full-text of its journals, PubMed provides links to that site as well as biological resources, consumer health information, research tools, and more.

 

• PubMed Bookshelf
  
  PubMed Bookshelf offers access to free e-books available from PubMed.
  

 

• PubMed Central
  
  PMC offers access to free full-text articles available from PubMed.
  

 

 

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• Rare Diseases
  
  A list of drugs and other products for treatment of rare diseases, provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to help people find useful information about genetic and rare diseases.
  

 

 

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• Scielo
  
  SciELO is a scientific journals network, of Latin America and Caribbean (includes Spain, Portugal and South Africa), who will contribute to make locally generated scientific information readily available and increase the usage of scientific and technical informations.

 

• Scielo Citation Index
  
  Research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa, access nearly 650 titles, over 4 million cited references, and open access with links to full text.
  

 

• SCImago Journal and Country Rank
  
  The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
  

• Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  
  This document contains over 72,300 street terms that refer to specific drug types, drug activity, or other unsavory behavior.
  

 

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• Toxicology Information
  
  NLM provides several databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
  
  
  
  
• TRIP
  
  Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

 

 

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• Visible Human Project
  
  The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
  

 

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• Web of Science (SCI, JCR)
  
  Whether looking at data, books, journals, proceedings or patents, Web of Science provides a single destination to access the most reliable, integrated, multidisciplinary research.

 

• WHO Regional Databases
  
  Regional health and medical databases have been compiled to complement the internationally known bibliographical indexes such as MEDLINE from the US National Library of Medicine.

 

• WhoNamedIt
  
  An encyclopedic dictionary of eponyms. Aims to ultimately provide biographical information on over 15,000 diseases and medical phenomena named after a person; currently contains over 6000 eponyms. Search by eponym, or by name, gender or national origin of the person.

 

• WHOSIS (Statistical Information System)
  
  The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been incorporated into the Global Health Observatory, provides statistical country data.

 

• Wiley Online Library
  
  Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

 

• WorldCat
  
  A platform for broad, Web-scale discovery and delivery of library resources from collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories.