Internet Links

This list is intended for busy people. If the selected links still won't answer your question try Medical Matrix, peer-reviewed, ranked, annotated, and updated site to clinical medicine resources (you have to register, but only once, there is no fee), or Hardin Meta Directory of Medical Resources with its pointers to the most complete and frequently cited lists.

MEDLINE AND OTHER DATABASES

• Medline and Pre-Medline through the National Library of Medicine PubMed. Also here: Clinical Alerts (where very recent clinical trials that could affect morbidity and mortality are based)
• Medline, Aidsline, HealthSTAR, Aidsdrugs, Aidstrials, Dirline, Histline, Hsrproj, Oldmedline, Pre-Medline, SDIline using the National Library of Medicine's Grateful Med program
• UnCover - 17,000 multidisciplinary journal index (includes some Medline citations). This site also provides document delivery services. To order you need to create a profile, but you can search UnCover without a profile or access password.

JOURNALS

• Full text journals offered by the National Library of Medicine PubMed - most require passwords
• University of Toronto Library full text journals - free access to table of contents and abstracts but password required to view full text
• List of Serials Indexed for Online Users - authority list for verifying journal title or journal abbreviation for journals indexed in Medline, Aidsline and HealthSTAR
• Medical journal list - a comprehensive list of medical journals
• Instructions to authors in the health sciences - this list will also link you to the publisher's site, and full text articles if available
• Links to other journals - medical and non-medical

SELECTED FULL TEXT BOOKS

• Webster Dictionary
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Merck Manual
• Family Practice Handbook
• Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
• Links to other medical texts and dictionaries - through Martindale

LIBRARY CATALOGUES

• University of Toronto Library
• York University
• Ryerson Polytechnic University Library
• Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
• National Library of Medicine - through Telnet.
• Links to other Canadian libraries

BOOK PUBLISHERS/BOOKSTORES

• Login Brothers - this is the library's main supplier. Please forward your suggestions for purchase to Panos Lambiris
• Amazon - it's a bookstore, but it is also an excellent place to verify your citation
• Links to other medical book publishers

ASSOCIATIONS/INSTITUTIONS

• Canada Yellow Pages
• U.S. Yellow Pages
• DIRLINE - Directory of Information Resources through NLM (Click Proceed, Search other files, Click next to DIRLINE, Change Files)
• Canadian Medical Association - clinical practice guidelines are here
• Ontario Medical Association
• American Medical Association
• Ontario Hospital Association
• Ontario Nurses Association
• Telemedicine Canada
• Links to Canadian Universities
• Links to Ontario hospitals

MEDICAL CONFERENCES

• Doctors's guide to medical conferences and meetings

NEWS

• The Globe and Mail
• The Toronto Star
• CBC Newsworld Online
• Macleans Magazine
• Reuters Health News

FINDING PEOPLE

• Canada 411 - Canadian telephone directory
• U.S. 411 - U.S. telephone directory
• 411 Directory - e-mail directory

STATISTICS

• Statistics Canada
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - includes MMWR
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Canadian Institute for Health Information

HEALTH POLICY AND GOVERNMENT SITES

• Ontario Ministry of Health
• World Health Organization
• Health Canada
• Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
• Joint Policy and Planning Committee
• Metro Toronto District Health Council

RESEARCH

• HEALNet
• Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)
• Ontario Health Care Evaluation Network (OHCEN)
• Medical Research Council of Canada
• Research and International Relations at the University of Toronto - research grant application forms and guides are available here

GENERAL INTEREST SITES

• PC Magazine top one hundred web sites
• Internet tools - comprehensive selection of the Internet software
• Search for mailing lists (listservs) or newsgroups
• Newsgroups - through this service you can search or subscribe to news groups

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