Searching Online for Health Research Information

Abstracts of research articles in health sciences (accessible free of charge; check individual websites for change in access policy, if any)

PubMed

IndMED

Bioline International

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center [US Department of Education])

African Journals Online (AJOL)

SciELO (Brazil)

The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL)

POPLINE (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

DiaL (Social Gerontology database, Japan)

The Cochrane Collaboration

Entrez Cross-Database Search (NCBI; multiple life sciences databases)

Health Sciences Online (HSO)

AGRICOLA (Agricultural literature [US Department of Agriculture])

Full Text articles in health sciences
(not all articles are immediately accessible [free of charge] upon publication, check the respective sites for access policy)

PubMed Central

medIND

SciELO (Brazil)

HighWire Press (Stanford University)

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Open Access Journals / Other Resources

BioMedCentral (BMC) Journals

MedEdPORTAL (Association of American Medical Colleges) - Sign in required

Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals

Books

BookShelf (NLM, USA)

eMedicine (from WebMD)

Free Books4Doctors

Hesperian's Online Library (Hesperian Foundation)

Medical Dictionaries / Illustrated Encyclopedia / Images / Cartoons / Other Resources 

PubMed Health

MedlinePlus (Medical Encyclopedia with images, Dictionary, Health Topics)

Dorland's Medical Dictionary (Online searchable, by Elsevier)

Encyclopeia of Public Health

MerckEngage 

Medscape (WebMD; free CME, medical news, full-text articles, etc.)

MD Consult

MD Consult India

WebMD 

Images


MedlinePlus (Medical Encyclopedia with images, Dictionary, Health Topics)

Images from the History of Medicine (National Library of Medicine, USA)

Wellcome Images (The Wellcome Trust, UK)

Wellcome Trust websites (The Wellcome Trust, UK)

HELP (Health Education Library for People

Health Topics/Fact Sheets

WHO Health Topics

MedlinePlus Health Topics

CDC A-Z Index

Health A-Z (NHS, UK)

A-Z Health Topics (New South Wales Government, Australia)

WHO Fact Sheets

NICE Guidance by Topic (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK)

Lectures

University of Pittsburgh Supercourse (Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health)

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