AIDSinfo is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) project that offers the latest federally approved information on HIV/AIDS clinical research, treatment and prevention, and medical practice guidelines for people living with HIV/AIDS, their families and friends, health care providers, scientists, and researchers.

Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles from more than 140 international and often peer-reviewed journals, reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. The majority of the full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

This database covers Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Sciences, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information Technology, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Engineering, Fire & Fire Prevention, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Industrial Engineering, Machine Learning, Machinery, Marine Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Mining Engineering, Neural Networks, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, Optical & Neural Computing, Petroleum & Gas, Physics, Plastics, Robotics, Solid State Technology, Space Science, Textile Industry & Fabrics, Transportation, Waste Management, Other Industrial & Mechanical Arts

A collection of several databases including Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Conference Papers Index, MEDLINE, Plant Science, and TOXLINE. The databases cite works in over 24 areas of biology including biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, zoology, and some agriculture and veterinary science.

Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. It provides indexing, back to 1937, for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health

The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. The Cochrane Library is composed of a number of different databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews), the Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), and About The Cochrane Collaboration (About).

General Science Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993.

This multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center? plus 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals.

PubMed.gov is the free version of MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's.

For more full-text articles, please see Medline (EBSCO Host).

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy, and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) also provides digital access to 300+ free biomedical and life sciences journals via PubMed Central.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy, and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) also provides digital access to 300+ free biomedical and life sciences journals via PubMed Central.

PubMed.gov is the free version of MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's.

For more full-text articles, please see Medline (EBSCO Host).

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of full text of scientific journals on the Internet to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin American and Caribbean countries. It provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as "lost science." These journals are predominantly in Spanish and cover Biology, Agricultural sciences, Social sciences, Engineering, Letters, Psychology, Health Sciences, Mother and Child Health, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Public Health, Odontology, Psychiatry.

American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV, focuses on clinical, research, empirical foundations, and diagnostic criteria for mental health clinicians. Used for clinical information and as an educational tool for teaching psychopathology.

HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Content - Full-text of 867 leading journals available from the journals' own sites for complete and accurate representation of the research at its source including articles published online ahead of print; plus all of Medline -- with links to full text.

Springer has combined two of the world?s leading research powerhouses ? SpringerLink and KluwerOnline ? to bring you the new SpringerLink. SpringerLink is Springer's online full-text archive for journals and books. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,250 fully peer-reviewed journals and a growing roster of book series, comprising more than 3,000 books online.

The Guide provides general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

An electronic archive where authors can post their research before, during or after peer review prior to completion and publication.

Open Science Directory is a tool for finding open access journals from developing countries in science, medicine, and several other fields.

Project Muse® offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. A rich journals collection is supplemented by relevant abstract databases to expand literature searches further and a growing program of online reference works, handbooks and book series.

Scopus is a unique new navigational product for all science from Elsevier. Apart from being the world's biggest abstract database covering 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, Scopus also offers powerful and innovative searching and browsing tools.

It features over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources. The site was launched in 1997 and currently caters to over 12 million users in 87 countries.

The Biochemical Journal covers all aspects of biochemistry and cell and molecular biology.

The Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics is an applied journal, publishing papers that will help clinical medical physicists perform their responsibilities more effectively and efficiently.

The Lancet is an independent and authoritative voice in global medicine. It seeks to publish high-quality clinical trials that will alter medical practice; our commitment to international health ensures that research and analysis from all regions of the world is widely covered.

Nature is a weekly, international, interdisciplinary journal of science.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas including allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, kidney disease, oncology, pulmonary disease, rheumatology, HIV, and infectious diseases.

Since 1956, New Scientist has been keeping their readers up to date with the latest science and technology news from around the world. In every issue, New Scientist also carries hundreds of the best jobs in science from around the world.

Open Science Directory is a tool for finding open access journals from developing countries in science, medicine, and several other fields.

Anatomy and Medical Illustrations from the American Medical Association

MedBioWorld is the largest medical and bioscience information resource and reference site on the Internet, and provides access to medical and bioscience journals, associations, databases and other medical resources, with more than 35,000 active links.

American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV, focuses on clinical, research, empirical foundations, and diagnostic criteria for mental health clinicians. Used for clinical information and as an educational tool for teaching psychopathology.

Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.

The Guide provides general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The department includes more than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Information networks and other information sources, including state and local health agencies.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

A gateway to scholarly science & technology information from 14 scientific and technical organizations from 10 major U.S. government science agencies. Includes technical reports, journal citations, databases, federal websites, and fact sheets.

Video showing collections and locations.

Use this site to find information related to clinical trials including more than 35000 industry and government sponsored clinical trials and new drug therapies approved by the FDA.

drkoop.com

A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with links to over 1400 health sites.

Find out what's in household products and what are the potential health effects, and other safety and handling information.

Consumer health information from Harvard Medical School.

Health information on a wide range of topics from Mayo Clinic.

For students, patients, physicians, and the health care community designed by medical students at Stanford University.

NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. The resources on NOAH are selected by librarians and health professionals.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine

The Nutraceuticals Institute (NI) is a research, education and outreach program formed through the partnership of Rutgers University (RU) and St. Joseph's University (SJU).

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), founded in 1898, exists to lend support and assistance to the nation's 20 osteopathic medical schools.

The AAI enables over 6,500 scientists conducting immunology research to work together on common interests and issues.

The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health issues.

The AOA is the main representative organization for osteopathic physicians in the United States. This page links to two sites maintained by AOA: Osteopathic.org (information for patients, consumers and media), and http://www.do-online.org/ (information for health industry professionals).

The ASCI is dedicated to the advancement of research that extends our understanding and improves the treatment of human diseases. The ASCI comprises more than 2,800 physician-scientists from all medical specialties elected to the Society for their outstanding records of scholarly achievement in biomedical research.

The American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease.

The mission of the ASN is to develop and extend knowledge of nutrition of all species through fundamental, multidisciplinary, and clinical research; facilitate contact among investigators in nutrition, medicine and related fields of interest; support the dissemination and application of nutrition science to improve public health and clinical practice worldwide; promote graduate education and training of physicians in nutrition; provide reliable nutrition information to those who need it, and advocate for nutrition research and its application to development and implementation of policies and practices related to nutrition.

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is the principal organization in the United States representing scientists, clinicians and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education. The interests of the Society lie in tropical medicine, including the varied parasitic and viral diseases of the tropics, as well as other infectious diseases, such as enteric and mycobacterial infections.

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology is the largest and most highly respected vision research organization in the world.

The Association of American Medical Colleges is a nonprofit association of medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies. The AAMC seeks to improve the nation's health by enhancing the effectiveness of academic medicine.

IFIC's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers. IFIC is supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries.

PRINS is designed for nutrition professionals and students to access professional nutrition resources on the Internet/World Wide Web. This web site focuses on professional rather than consumer resources in nutrition.

Alternative medicine information from About.com

Alternative Medicine Resource Guide provides links to sites on subjects such as hypnosis, acupuncuture, herbal remedies, biofeedback, aromatherapy, chiropractic, reflexology, acupressure, homeopathic cures, massage, herbology, chiropractic, acupressure Also featuring the New Age approach to enlightenment and health, holistic, metaphysical, reiki, kundalini, spiritual healing, and astrology

Natural and Alternative Medicine

Provides information on a range of nutrition topics including dietary guidelines, supplements, food composition, food pyramids and consumer advice.

General information and fact sheets on dietary supplements from the Office on Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health.

Provides simplified nutritional analyses and food labels and tells you what's good and bad about the foods you eat.

STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government.

They offer extensive research, education, and science on promotion of rural communities, ecosystems and family farms.

Organized by the United Nations to create a world without hunger.

CFSAN is responsible for promoting and protecting the public's health by ensuring that the nation's food supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled, and that cosmetic products are safe and properly labeled.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.

Soy Info Online! is dedicated to providing consumers with accurate, verifiable and scientific information about soy products and related protein issues.Soy Info Online!is not funded by or associated with soybean seed companies, soybean growers, soy product manufacturers, food manufacturers, or food resellers.

The goal of the National Food Safety Database project is to develop an efficient management system of US food safety databases that are used by the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), consumers, industry, and other public health organizations.

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) promotes food safety, organic farming and sustainable agriculture practices in the U.S. and internationally. OCA provide consumers with factual information they can use to make informed food choices. Genetic engineering, irradiation, toxic sludge fertilizer, mad cow disease, and rBGH are some of the issues OCA addresses. The OCA gives interviews and supplies background material for journalists, news organizations, and public interest activists worldwide. OCA publishes one print newsletter (Organic View) and one electronic newsletter (Organic Bytes).

Click here to see a listing of resources relevant to foodways and food history on the Library's Anthropology page.

For educators interested in human genetics and the human genome project. Project introduction · Resources (books, videos, curricula) · Lesson Plans · Networking · Genetic Conditions · Careers · Programs / Resources · Museum Exhibits · Plays · Glossaries · News · Portrayal & Writing · Feedback · FAQ · Search

A wealth of information from the United States Department of Energy covering resesarch, eduation, medicaine and legal and ethical issues regarding the Human Genome Project.

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) was originally established in 1989. Its mission is to head the Human Genome Project for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Covers research, social issues, new developments, glossary and other resources.

A comprehensive web resource devoted to research articles, in all areas of biology.

Find information on all aspects of public health from federal, state and city agencies.

Video showing collections and locations.