Guide to Internet Discovery Tools
for Health Professionals, Librarians, and Consumers
Guides to Health Resources
- MedlinePlus
- NLM's guide to consumer health information on the Web. También en Español!
http://medlineplus.gov/ - healthfinder™
- U.S. government's links to dependable consumer health information. También en Español!
http://www.healthfinder.gov/ - NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
- A librarian-reviewed list. También en Español! Excellent Spanish language consumer health materials.
http://www.noah-health.org/ - PubMed
- NLM's free search service to access 9 million citations in MEDLINE, with links to participating on-line journals.
http://pubmed.gov/ - HealthWeb
- Easy-to-use health specialty categories, maintained by medical school libraries in the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
http://healthweb.org/ - Biosciences Index
- Part of the
http://www.vlib.org/Biosciences.html- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- A resource containing a multitude of health topics including health statistics and issues relevant to the public.
http://www.cdc.gov/- Medical Matrix
- A physician peer-reviewed list. Good links to MEDLINE, CME,online publications. Useful topical and specialty categorizations. Registration required.
http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp- MedWeb
- Well-chosen and thorough Internet selections in biomedicine, maintained by Emory University. Extensive links to health professional organizations.
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/- World Health Organization (WHO)
- A global resource dealing with health issues on an international scale.
http://www.who.int/
Whole Web Search Tools
- Alta Vista
- Extensive index of the Web and Usenet. Good advanced searching options.
http://www.altavista.com/ - Dogpile
- Simultaneously searches several other search engines.
http://www.dogpile.com/ - Excite
- Extensive index of Web pages.
http://msxml.excite.com/info.xcite/ - Easy-to-use Web searcher.
http://www.google.com/ - HotBot
- Easy-to-use search of the Web and Usenet.
http://www.hotbot.com/ - Librarian's Index to the Internet
- An annotated subject directory evaluated by librarians.
http://lii.org/search/ - Lycos
- Subject guides plus a search tool.
http://www.lycos.com/ - MetaCrawler
- Simultaneously searches several other search engines. Good choices to refine searches.
http://www.go2net.com/search.html - search.com
- Simultaneously searches several other search engines (formerly known as SavvySearch and CNET Metasearch).
http://www.search.com/ - WebCrawler
- A simple search engine.
http://webcrawler.com/ - Yahoo
- A good searchable index, but best-known for its hierarchical subject guides to the WWW. Also includes people-searching capabilities.
http://www.yahoo.com/
Internet Discussion Finders
- Google Groups
- Search Usenet newsgroup postings (see also Advanced Groups Search)
http://groups.google.com/ - L-Soft CataList
- Search for mailing lists that are based on LISTSERV software.
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html - Topica
- A directory of health & fitness e-mail discussion lists.
http://lists.topica.com/channels/health
