Nursing and Medical Online Resources


Freely accessible databases

  1. Ageline: AARP website for Policy & Research in aging
    This database includes full text medical articles focusing on people over age 50.
  2. Agricola: National Agriculture Library
    This database includes information about food and nutrition.

Government websites

  1. Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  2. National Cancer Institute
  3. Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs
  4. California Department of Health Services
  5. National Center for Infectious Diseases
  6. US Department of Health and Human Services
  7. Gateway for the National Library of Medicine
    The Gateway includes links to MedlinePlus, PubMed, Toxline, and other medical resources.
  8. Healthfinder
    This is a government run website for searching for health related information.
  9. Toll Free Numbers for Health Information
    This website includes a listing of toll free numbers divided by category. The listing also includes the days and hours that people are answering the phones.

Medical websites

  1. Diseases and Conditions at the MayoClinic
    This disease information database includes symptoms, tests, and treatments about a variety of medical conditions.
  2. MerckSource
    This website is similar in content to the Mayo Clinic website. Besides health conditions it also includes a resource library and a few medical related news articles.
  3. Familydoctor.org
    This website, run by the American Academy of Family Physicians, is similar in scope to the Merck and Mayo Clinic websites, but it covers basic information that is not always included in the other websites. It also includes additional sections including diet information for various health concerns.
  4. Kaiser Permanente's Health Encyclopedia
    This encyclopedia allows you to search by keyword or browse by an alphabetical listing. The entries are divided into subsections and are intended for non-medical professionals.
  5. Kaiser Permanents's Drug Encyclopedia
    This encyclopedia is in the same format as the health encyclopedia.
  6. Allergies and Asthma
    The website is primarily intended for non-medical professionals and includes information on medication, pollen counts (although some are out of date), and health related headlines. The website also includes a list of links to other health related websites.
  7. New England Journal of Medicine
    This website provides a limited amount of free information.
  8. Noah (New York Online Access to Health
    The information is divided both by health topics and an A-Z index. Information is selected by health care professions and specialist librarians
  9. Google Scholar
    There are a limited number of articles included, but it can be helpful for finding other websites to search.
  10. American Medical Library Association's Medical Glossary
    This glossary includes definitions for some medical and health related terms.
  11. Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center's List of Rare Diseases
    This page lists genetic and rare diseases with links to a small amount of additional information about each disease.

Nursing specific websites

  1. NurseZone
    This website includes information about nursing focusing on career concerns.
  2. Emergency Nurses Association
    This website has a good list of news and links.
  3. The History of Nursing Links
    This website, created by the the American Association of History of Nursing, Inc, includes links to websites and articles relating to important events in the history of nursing.

Websites for finding additional links

  1. AORN's database of Nursing Links
    This large database of links focuses specifically on information of interest to nurses.
  2. Medweb: Emory University
    This website has an extensive list of links divided by topics (consumer health, clinical practice, etc).
  3. Lamar Soutter Library: Online Journals
    This list of accessible online journals is provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
  4. American Nursing Informatics Association
    This website links to nursing related resources particularly associations.
  5. American Medical Association
    The website includes links to information about a few medical topics including medical legal issues and public health.
  6. Librarian's Index to the Internet
    This is one of the best quality general websites for finding reliable websites. The criteria for including websites is listed here.
  7. Internet Public Library Health Section
    The website uses quality control for choosing websites, but some of the links are dead.
  8. New York Public Library's List of Links for Health and Medicine
    The listing includes 370 links about a variety of topics including AIDS, medicines, avian flu, and medical trials. The website is updated regularly and links are evaluated by specialists.
  9. Directory of Open Access Journals
    In order to be included journals must make all content freely available, be either peer reviewed or editorial quality reviewed, and they must allow users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles.

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