University of Zambia Medical Library

Direct Link to MEDLINE and Other Key Medical Indexes African Index Medicus Combined Health Information Database Databases Accessible Through NLM HealthGate: MEDLINE+ HealthLink Online Bibliographic Database Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) List of Serials Indexed for Online Users: (U.S.) National Library of Medicine MEDLINE Plus (consumer health index from the [U.S.] National Library of Medicine) National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.) National Institutes of Health (U.S.): Clinical Alerts OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE) PubMed Help PubMed Online: Guides PubMed Tutorial PubMed: Visual Map PubMed Retrieval System: MEDLINE TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network

• PUBMED (MEDLINE)
  
• AFRICAN INDEX MEDICUS
  
• POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE)
  
• National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Databases

• PubMed Retrieval System: MEDLINE
  "a free access search tool to the 9 million citations (1965 to date) in MEDLINE; a service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the (U.S.) National Library of Medicine; search by author, journal title, keyword or ID number; contains links to several other NLM databases (Nucleotide, Protein, Genome, Structure, PopSet, Taxonomy, OMIM)"
• PubMed Help
  "the basics of how to search MEDLINE using the PubMed Retrieval System; covers basic, advanced and boolean searching, the components of the documents and special features"
• PubMed Online: Guides
  "regarding PubMed, site contains linked listings of fact sheets and overviews, guides and courses and presentations; maintained by the U.S. National Network of Libraries of Medicine"
• PubMed Tutorial
  "designed to teach you how to use and navigate the many search features of PubMed; initial page contains links to how to search, print and save in PubMed, descriptions of other features plus self paced exercises; developed by the University of Florida Health Science Center Library"
• PubMed: Visual Map
  "site contains extensive visual access to PubMed that allows the user 'to navigate with greater ease and efficiency'; initial graphical icons include anatomy, biological sciences, chemicals and drugs, diseases, health care, humanities, organisms, physical sciences, persons, psychiatry and psychology, etc; within each icon, there are further graphical subcategories plus textual links and keyword search engine"

• African Index Medicus
  "an international index to African health literature and information sources; is a compilation of national databases into print and electronic forms with abstracts and search engine; sponsored by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Health Organization"
  

• POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE)
  "provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues; database is maintained by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health"
  

• Combined Health Information Database (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
  "a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the U.S. Government; provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information, health promotion and health education resources and fulltext information; includes a simple and detailed keyword search engine"
• Databases Accessible Through NLM
  "information about access to forty online databases, fee based and free, from the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)"
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
  "free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text of documents useful in health care decision making; includes clinical practice guidelines, quick-reference guides for clinicians, and consumer brochures"
• List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
  "National Library of Medicine's (U.S.) list of complete bibliographic information on serials cited in three MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System) files: MEDLINE (including the backfiles), AIDSLINE, and HealthSTAR"
• MEDLINE Plus (consumer health)
  "a subset of the (U.S.) National Library of Medicine's databases designed to direct users to resources containing information personal or consumer health questions; for educational use only and are not intended to replace advice from a health professional"
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.)
  "linked access to various electronic resources and databases of the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes for Health"
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.): Clinical Alerts
  "links to NIH's clinical trials alerts from 1993 to date; access to findings of trials that could significantly affect morbidity and mortality"
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
  "database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick, et. al.; developed for the World Wide Web by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information; contains textual information, pictures, and reference information"
• TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network
  "a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas; contains sophisticated search engines to all the databases; sponsored by the (U.S.) National Library of Medicine, through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program"

• see also: Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability
  

Last updated June 13, 2002