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Databases for Literature Searches

All About AIDS on BiblioLine top
A combination of three database files providing information about Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics.
http://www.nisc.com/frame/freeaccess-f.htm

Child Abuse and Neglect on BiblioLine top
This Child Abuse and Neglect database is indispensable for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and administrators working to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect.
http://www.nisc.com/subscribe/freeaccess_reg.htm

Guide to Internet Discovery Tools for Health Professionals, Librarians, and Consumers
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National Network of Libraries of Medicine (U.S.) listing of high quality starting points for Internet resources in the health sciences and librarianship.
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/tools.html

Medical Images on the Web top
An annotated, linked list of sites that contain medical images; most of sites are subject based (ie. history of medicine, dermatology, ophthalmology); sites contain still photos, CD-models and movies and other multimedia.
http://www.unmc.edu/library/medimag.html

Medical Link Directories and Search Engines
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Contains a range of general or subject-orientated medical link directories from this Internet directory and resource site; top new sites are highlighted in the free science.komm EMail newsletter.
http://www.sciencekomm.at/links/medicine.html

Medical Resources from the World: OMNI top
Selected medical subject heading listing of Internet medical resources from the world.
http://omni.ac.uk/

Medical World Search top
Sophisticated medical search engine that retrieves syynonyms for keyword search terms; uses (U.S.) National Library of Medicine medical thesaurus.
http://www.mwsearch.com/

Medline database top
MEDLINE (MEDlars onLINE) is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Medsite top
Largest medical search engine that evaluates, reviews and ranks medical webpages; contains links to each site with a short summary and graphic noting target audience.
http://www.medsite.com

OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information top
Selected keyword and medical subject guide to medicine and bioscience Internet resources; 'the UK's gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources.
http://www.omni.ac.uk

POPINFORM top
Search the most recent POPLINE records. POPLINE provides comprehensive coverage on population, family planning, and related health issues. Over 260,000 abstracts with citations are drawn from published and unpublished sources all over the world.
http://www.jhuccp.org/popinform/

South African Health Knowledge Network top
The health knowledge network modules serve as information clearinghouses for focused research content areas. It is our aim to provide access to relevant hyper-linked static information and databases, which may be searched using the Quick Search or where available the feature-rich Knowledge Discovery application.
http://www.healthnet.org.za/Databases/databases.htm

University of Cape Town Online Resource Directory top
The Electronic Resources Directory is a UCT Libraries service which lists and describes hundreds of electronic resources available to staff and students at UCT. These resources exist in a number of formats such as CD-ROMs, locally-mounted online databases, Internet accessible databases and full-text journals.

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/eresources/

Virtual Reference Desk (WHO Library)
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An extensive, topical listing of links to subjects including: abbreviations, databases, dictionaries, drug information, libraries worldwide, medical texts, scientific data, statistics, translation tools and more; goal is to assist WHO staff and others, in quickly locating electronic information.
http://www.who.int/hlt/virtuallibrary/English/virtuallib.htm

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