Librarian - R. Phillip Reynolds
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Phone: 936.468.1453
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Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
Alternative Health Watch (Ebsco) contains over 50,000 complete articles and thousands of embedded images dealing with alternative remedies for health problems.
Health Reference Center (Thomson Gale) provides indexing for magazines and journal articles dealing with allied heath, medicine, and nursing subjects with full-text access to many of articles.
Medline (FirstSearch) is a database that covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. There is no full text access, but most records include substantial abstracts.
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service with access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals).
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The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy Seventeenth Edition
Search the manual by keyword or table of contents.
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere.
Encyclopedia of Aging
Online Books: Medicine
Online Books: Human Anatomy
Stat!Ref is a full text collection of 35 medical and drug reference titles, including the Merck Manual and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Recommended search engines:
Scirus: for scientific information only Filters search results to return only peer-reviewed and/or authoritative sites and journal articles. Includes advanced search and search tips.
Google Scholar Under development; searches peer-reviewed literature (articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports). Includes a frequently-asked-questions section, advanced search and search tips.
Recommended Web sites:
American Medical Association
Search for consumer information, AMA certified doctors, hospitals, physician-related data, etc.Avian Flu
Free bird flu news, commentary and timelines from Nature.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Includes: information on flu, avian flu, SARS, mad cow disease, West Nile virus, Travelers' Health, Data and Statistics, health topics news, etc.Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response (CSR)
Maintained by the World Health Organization.Harvard School of Public Health: Health Literacy Studies
HealthWeb
Selected high-quality links for a wide variety of medical subjects.Infectious Diseases Society of America
Includes bioterrorism and disease risks from tsunamis.MEDLINEplus
A wealth of health information presented by the National Library of Medicine. Includes drug information, an encyclopedia and directories.MedWeb
Catalog of health related web sites, maintained by the Emory Health Sciences Center Library.National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute for Literacy, Special Collections: Health Literacy
OMNI
Gateway to internet resources in Health and Medicine.
Includes BioResearch, featuring resources in biological and biomedical sciences and VetGate, featuring resources in animal health.Texas Department of Health
Includes information on West Nile virus and bioterrorism.U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Includes information on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), the Center for Food Safety, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and more.World Health Organization
Research tools (including statistics), news, links and more.
