Health Sciences Ready Reference

• ***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.



• Best Online Reference Sites - Has over 500 links on biography & history, books & literature, business & finance, countries & government, consumers & household, dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, entertainment & recreation, facts, health & science, magazines & news, maps & travel, measures, New York State & local, quotations & writing.



• Credo Reference - Was xreferplus. Search over 210 reference sources (biographies, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations) in 16 academic disciplines. Covers art, business, history, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, etc.. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Digital Engineering Library (DEL) - Search & browse over 4,000 chapters from 190 ebooks. Covers 12 engineering categories (aerospace, bio, chemical, civil, communications, construction & arch, electrical, math & science, environmental, industrial, materials science, mechanical). Log-in & create a personal profile to use bookmarks, annotations, highlighting, etc.. RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOGOUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.



• Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Has search forms for several plant & ecological databases.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories. Includes History Journals Guide, The; etc..



• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) - Was Embryonic Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Embryonic ELS) & Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ESL). Search 3,900 peer-reviewed articles on biology, clinical medicine, diseases & conditions, evolution, morphology, immunology, neuroscience, plant science, science & society, etc.. Has a glossary with 4,000 definitions. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, Berlin), THmed, TUN.



• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools - Has links in over 140 categories. Focus is U.S. & Canada.



• FreeFullText.com - Has links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals with some or all articles for free. Some require free registration.



• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provided by NOVEL, NY State Library's free public statewide virtual library pilot project funded via a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Search & browse 27 works. Covers business, history, law, literature, medicine, science, social science. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• Health & Wellness Resource Center (and Alternative Health Module) - Search the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine; a drug & herb finder (PDR Family Guides (prescription drugs,over-the-counter drugs, natural medicines & healing therapies); Medical & Health Information Directory (organizations); Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary; health news; Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Health; health assessment tools. Includes articles from over 630 periodicals back to 1980. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data - Has over 750 links in 25 categories (data archives & Web directories [macroeconomics, elections, population, poverty, labor, public opinion, education & health, etc.], etc..



• LivRe - Has links to over 2,700 ejournals in the biological, health & medicine, agricultural, exact & earth, engineering, applied social (management, accounting, economy, etc.), human sciences (education, psychology, etc.); linguistics, literature & arts.



• Marquis Who's Who On The Web - Search over 1 million concise & comprehensive biographies of accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor. Drawn from 20 Marquis print titles back to 1985 (Who Was Who in America, Who's Who in (America, American [Art, Education, History, Law, Nursing], 20th Century America, the East, Midwest, South & Southwest, West, the World, Entertainment, Finance & Business, Media & Communications, Medicine & Healthcare, Religion, Science & Engineering), Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, Who's Who of (American Women, Emerging Leaders in America). Updated daily. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, TUC, TUI.



• MedBioWorld - Directory & ready reference. Can search, browse over 35,000 medical & bioscience links (9,700 journals (not all free); 8,600 associations; 3,000 databases; 2,000 companies; reference tools [encyclopedias, translation, etc.); libraries; disease databases; clinical trials; biotechnology; etc.).



• Medical Encyclopedia - Healthopedia.com. Has information on over 1,500 topics (diseases, conditions, tests, symptoms, injuries, surgeries, nutrition, etc.).



• MedWeb@Emory University - Directory & ready reference. Can search, browse links in 10 categories (clinical practice [evidence-based, etc.], alternative & complementary medicine, consumer health, diseases & conditions, forensic medicine, mental health, drugs, publications [bibliographies, databases, dictionaries, directories, glossaries, over 760 ejournals - not all free, news, newsletters, practice guidelines, textbooks, etc.], specialties [nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, etc.], etc.).



• National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - Can search, browse links to databases created by U.K. government departments (health, law & order, transport, demography, etc.) back to 1963.



• Reference Collection - Has links to 21 academic (meta sites; acronyms & abbreviations; almanacs; associations; biography; books, book reviews; publishers; colleges & universities; countries; dictionaries; thesauri & grammars; encyclopedias; flags & anthems; government information, the Internet, journal directories, local & regional information, maps & map services, quotations, speeches & transcripts, statistical sources, style guides, U.S. facts & locations) & 19 general information (audo prices; awards & prize winners; calculators; career resources; consumer information; currencies; email addresses; films; financial aid & grants; genealogy; medicine & health; news; phone books; recipes; September 11th terrorist attacks; time, date & calendars; travel; weather; weights & measures) sites.



• Scholarly Societies Project - Has links to over 4,100 major international societies & 3,700 conferences, standards, 150 enewsletters, etc..



• ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition - Search articles in over 900 journals. Includes over 20 reference works, handbooks, book series. Covers biological chemistry, forensic sciences, human nutrition, immunology, psychotherapy, neurological sciences, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• ScienceDirect Social & Behavioral Sciences College Edition - Search articles in over 550 journals. Includes reference works, handbooks, book series. Covers business, education, health, history, psychology, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), TUC, TUI.



• STATRef - Search all 42 standard medical reference ebooks or limit to individual titles. Can search PubMed, etc. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin, Israel), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• Virtual Reference Shelf - Library of Congress, The. Has links in 30 categories (abbreviations, almanacs, associations, awards/prizes, calculators, calendars, clocks/times, consumer information, current events, dictionaries/thesauri, directories, encyclopedias, genealogy, biography & archaeology, government, grant resources, libraries, maps/driving directions, quotations, statistics, etc.).