TWU Libraries

Free Internet Databases

• Ageline
• Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
• NLM Gateway
• Find Articles
• Smoking and Health Resource Library

Internet Gateways

Primary Gateways to Nursing on the Internet

• Allnurses.com
• HealthWeb: Nursing
• MedlinePlus
• Resources for Nurses and Families

Primary Gateways to Medical Information on the Internet

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Centers for Disease Control
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics: Karolinska Institute
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
• HealthFinder
• HealthWeb
• Health on the Net (HON)
• InteliHealth
• Virtual Nursing Center
• MayoClinic.com
• Medem Medical Library
• MedMark
• MedScape
• National Institutes of Health
• National Women's Health Information Center [NWHIC]
• National Library of Medicine
• Spanish Medical Websites
• UMDNJ Recommended Core Collection of Web Sites for Hospital Libraries

Organizations/Agencies

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
• American Medical Association
• American Nurses Association
• Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• National League for Nursing
• Nursing Organizations [HealthWeb]
• Texas Medical Association
• Texas Nurses Association

Publications on the Internet

• Allnurses.com
• British Nursing News
• Elsevier e-Alerts [Book Alerts-Health Science Professionals]
• Elsevier Science & Technology Books-Alerts
• Free Medical Journals
• Healthy People 2000
• Healthy People 2010
• INASP International Scientific Publications
• IndexMedico/Bilingual Medical Listings
• JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
• LinkAlert [Free Springer-Verlag journals table of contents alert service]
• List of Serials Indexed for Online Users [Medline]
• MedicalStudent Medical Textbooks
• MedlinePlus: Encyclopedia
• MedlinePlus: Medical Dictionary
• Medscape [Online fulltext medical news journal]
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• Merck Manual of Geriatrics, 3rd ed.
• Merck Manual: 2nd Home Edition
• National Science Foundation Custom News Service
• Nursing Journals and CE Credit [Martindale's]
• Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing
• Online Journals [HealthWeb]
• On-line Medical Dictionary [CancerWeb]
• Oxford Journals: Medicine
• Oxford Reference Online [Medicine section includes searchable Dictionary of Nursing, Concise Medical Dictionary, and An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs from Oxford University Press. Access restricted to TWU]
• Print and On-line Journals and Books [Resources for Nurses and Families]
• PubMed Central
• Science Direct-Journal Alerts
• Virtual Hospital: Textbooks
• WedbMD with AOL Health-Medical Library
• Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book

Topics on the Internet

Anatomy and Biomechanics

• Anatomy of the Human Body [Henry Gray, 1918]
• Biophysics on the Internet
• Computerized 3-Dimensional Segmented Human Anatomy [Yale University]
• The Digital Anatomist Program
• Hosford Muscle Tables: Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body
• Human Anatomy On-line
• Hypermuscle: Muscles in Action
• Indiana Hand Center
• Links to Other Visual Medicine Sites
• Med Asylum: Internet Atlas of Pathology
• Medical Illustrators' Home Page
• Observational Gait Analysis
• Physiology and Biophysics [WWW Virtual Library]
• Sources for Images and Animations Based on the Visible Human Dataset
• Virtual Autopsy
• Virtual Hospital
• Visible Embryo
• Visible Human Cross Sections
• Visible Human Project
• Whole Brain Atlas
• Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book

Evidence-Based Medicine

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• BMJ: How To Read A Paper
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• Evidence Based Medicine (Univ. of Illinois)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• Nesbit Guide to Evidence Based Resources
• PubMed Clinical Queries and Systematic Reviews

Hospitals

• Doctor Directory
• HospitalWeb

Nurse Practitioners

• NP Central

Nursing Schools

• HealthWeb: Nursing: Academic Institutions

Pain

• American Academy of Pain Management
• American Chronic Pain Foundation
• American Pain Foundation
• M.D. Anderson Resources and Links
• National Pain Foundation

Pharmacology

• Chemical Database
• Drug InfoNet
• HazDat: Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database
• On-Line Medical Dictionary [CancerWeb]
• PDR.net
• RxList: the Internet Drug Index

Research

• National Institute of Nursing Research
• Nursing Research
• Nursing Theory
• Research and Researchers [HealthWeb]

Statistics

• Centers for Disease Control
• HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
• FedStats
• Finding and Using Health Statistics (NLM)
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• U.S. Census Bureau