 Achoo Gateway to Healthcare
A Yahoo-style directory of health-related internet resources.
The directory may be browsed or searched. Achoo also provides
topical searching, which results in a tree of links to pages
containing the search term, arranged by subject.
VirtualMed
VirtualMed is one of the Largest Gateway for Medical
Resources on the Internet. Created by a Medical Student at
Calicut Medical College, India.
BIOME
A collection of gateways specific to health and life sciences.
Users can search all the gateways at once, or one at a time:
- OMNI (Organising Medical
Networked Information) - Health and Biomedicine
- NMAP
- The part of OMNI specific to nurses,
midwives and allied health professionals.
- VetGate - Animal Health
- BioResearch -
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Natural Selection - The
Natural World (co-ordinated by the Natural History Museum)
- AgriFor - Agriculture, Food
and Forestry
BioMedNet
An evaluated and annotated database of Internet resources for
biological and medical researchers that may be searched or
browsed. Requires free registration.
MedLib
MedLib is the largest gateway of Medical library websites.
It has a journal and a job announcement utility.
healthfinder®
healthfinder® is a free guide to reliable consumer
health and human services information, developed by the US Department of Health and
Human Services. It contains links to online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, Web sites, and support and self-help
groups, as well as government agencies and not-for-profit
organisations that produce reliable information for the public.
HealthLinks.Net
Directory lists of web sites that offer professional level
information on healthcare with third party reviews. All sites on
Health Links have to be approved by a panel of healthcare
professionals.
HealthWeb
Established by health sciences librarians in the USA, Health Web is a
collaborative project set up to develop an interface to provide
organised access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related,
Internet-accessible resources.
Joint
Information Systems Committee ( JISC) Subject Guides
The JISC provides a number of
electronic resources, services and development projects aimed to
meet the needs of those working and studying within higher and
further education. These are brought together as Subject Guides
under a number of subject headings including Life Sciences
and Health Studies and Social Sciences.
Medic8
Medic8 is a privately owned Yahoo-style web directory which
provides quick, easy access to medical resources on the
internet. The directory may be searched or browsed. All websites
in the Medic8 directory are peer-reviewed for suitability prior
to listing.
Mirago
Health
Mirago Health (formerly Medisearch) is the health section of a UK search engine. It contains
Web guides (directories of useful sites), a Reference section
(articles giving advice on a number of topics) and the latest
health-related news stories.
Resource
Discovery Network - Virtual training suite
The Virtual Training Suite is a set of subject-specific online
tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers
improve their Internet information skills. The tutorials also
introduce users to the key internet sites for their subject, the
links to which can be stored up for saving/printing at the end.
SOSIG
SOSIG
(Social Science Information Gateway) - pronounced
"sausage" - is an online catalogue of internet
resources relevant to social science education and research.
TRIP
Database
The TRIP Database is a meta-search
engine that searches across nearly 70 sites of high-quality
medical information. By searching the TRIP
Database you have direct, hyperlinked access to the largest
collection of evidence-based material on the web as well as
articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA,
NEJM etc.
UK Health Centre
A directory of health-related internet resources, with portals
for the public, for health care professionals and for health
services suppliers. The news section links to the health-related
stories in the day's newspapers.
Yahoo! Health
Yahoo! Health is the health section of the US search engine Yahoo! It
contains many subject guides and articles as well as health news
and links to relevant parts of the Yahoo! directory.
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