Free Resources for Health Professionals
Journal Collections and Databases
BioMed Central
Publisher of 206 peer-reviewed open access journals
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Statistics and reports on health care in Canada
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world.
CancerLit (via National Cancer Institute)
Covers all aspects of cancer therapy and research.
Drug Information Portal
US National Library of Medicine
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
Free Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making
HighWire Press
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire hosts 1308 journals, books, reference works & other scholarly publications
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database
Provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. IBIDS is a collaboration between the US Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL).
Native Health Database
From the University of New Mexico
See also http://www.arctichealth.org/
US National Library of Medicine Gateway
A service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health
Multiple retrieval systems from NLM, including MEDLINE/PubMed (journal citations from 1966 to present), OLDMEDLINE (journal citations from 1957 to 1965), MEDLINE plus (consumer health) and much, much more
Public Library of Science
Non-profit, open-access medicine and biology journals
PubMed
Citations and some full-text biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals
PubMed Central Canada
Full-text, peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature based on PubMed Central, the archive developed by the US National Library of Medicine
TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases
see also: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/especiallyprofessionals.html
BC Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols
CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canadian Medical Association)
National Library of Guidelines (UK)
Guidelines International Network Resource
Links to resources for clinical guidelines around the world
Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fast Stats (US)
Statistics on topics of public health importance
National Library of Medicine Data, Tools, and Statistics (US)
Links to international statistics websites
Australia’s Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Heath Statistics
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Statists and reports on health care in Canada
ebooks
Anatomy of the Human Body (Henry Gray)
The classic 1918 publication online.
