Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
Over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries as well as an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. (National Library of Medicine)
Medical Dictionary
Searchable dictionary of medical terms. (Merriam-Webster and the National Library of Medicine.
Word!
A glossary of medical words for children. (The Nemours Foundation)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
A wealth of information is offered by NLM, the world’s largest medical library and a part of the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINE, its database of references and abstracts, is available as PubMed on this Web site. This is also the site for NLM’s online catalog and many other medical databases. There is a link to the extensive list of databases on the home page.
Internet Public Library
This Web site, maintained by the University of Michigan School of Information, has celebrated its tenth year. It has much more than basic consumer information and links to a large number of useful Web sites. Under “subject collections” on the home page, choose health. There is an “Ask a Question” service and a list of frequently asked reference questions
Martindale’s Virtual Medical Center: Medical Dictionaries
Medical Tests, Laboratory Tests & Procedures… Medical Tests: Consumers & Patient Education
HighWire Press
HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. It hosts the largest repository of free, full-text life sciences articles in the world.
Virtual Hospital
Virtual Hospital was a popular digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa. It ceased in January 2006 due to lack in funding, but the patient education content is still available from University of Iowa Health Care at the above URL. There is also an archive of consumer health reports, health care news by medical specialty, and “Well & Good”, a health and wellness resource for consumers.
National Academies Press (National Academies of Science)
Hundreds of books and reports can be downloaded free from NAP.
MedBioWorld
MedBioWorld is the Internet’s largest medical and bioscience information resource and reference site, providing access to journals, associations, and databases. Special features of MedBioWorld are its links to Web sites of document delivery services and to suppliers of online medical, anatomical and biological images and illustrations.
NCBI Bookshelf
The National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf is a growing collection of online biomedical books and is one of the databases at NLM/NIH. It can also be accessed through the NLM Web site.
The Online Books Page
The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, who is a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. The University Library hosts the Web site. The purpose of the Web site is to facilitate access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. There is an index to thousands of books, pointers to directories and archives of online texts, and special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books.
PLoS Medicine
PLoS Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the nonprofit organization Public Library of Science (PLoS).
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literatures at NIH and is managed by NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology Information in the National Library of Medicine.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an open access publisher. Original research articles are freely accessible immediately upon publication. There are also links to biomedical databases on the Web. Some other products and services available require a subscription.
HealthWeb
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and is supported by the National Library of Medicine. Among the user guides on the Web site is Document Delivery (how to obtain journal articles): . There are links to the Web sites of Biomed Central, Highwire Press, Free Medical Journals, and the Directory of Open Access Journals, all of which offer access to full-text scholarly publications at no cost.
MedicalStudent.com
MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information for medical students, but is also very useful to consumers. The Web site includes hundreds of textbooks, as well as medical journals, consumer health information and links to medical organizations.
eMedguides.com
This list offers an incredible wealth of different types of health and medical information, including online medical books and journal articles.
Deciphering Medspeak
Glossary of terms commonly used by health care professionals. Also available in Spanish. (Medical Library Association)