Nursing and Medical Online Resources
Freely accessible databases
- Ageline: AARP website for Policy & Research in aging
This database includes full text medical articles focusing on people over age 50. - Agricola: National Agriculture Library
This database includes information about food and nutrition.
Government websites
- Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Cancer Institute
- Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs
- California Department of Health Services
- National Center for Infectious Diseases
- US Department of Health and Human Services
- Gateway for the National Library of Medicine
The Gateway includes links to MedlinePlus, PubMed, Toxline, and other medical resources. - Healthfinder
This is a government run website for searching for health related information. - 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
- Diseases and Conditions at the MayoClinic
This disease information database includes symptoms, tests, and treatments about a variety of medical conditions. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Kaiser Permanents's Drug Encyclopedia
This encyclopedia is in the same format as the health encyclopedia. - 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intended for non-medical professionals and includes information on medication, pollen counts (although some are out of date), and health related headlines.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. - New England Journal of Medicine
This website provides a limited amount of free information. - 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 - Google Scholar
There are a limited number of articles included, but it can be helpful for finding other websites to search. - American Medical Library Association's Medical Glossary
This glossary includes definitions for some medical and health related terms.
Nursing specific websites
- Emergency Nurses Association
This website has a good list of news and links.
Websites for finding additional links
- AORN's database of Nursing Links
This large database of links focuses specifically on information of interest to nurses. - 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.
- Internet Public Library Health Section
The website uses quality control for choosing websites, but some of the links are dead. - 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. - 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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