Research Guides: Health Studies: General Sources

Article Databases

PubMed (with Dickinson links)
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. This special version includes Dickinson library's "Get It" links to additional full-text. Coverage: 1950s to present. Some Full-Text.
Web of Knowledge
Searches arts & humanities, social science, and science materials, and allows the user to see what other articles have cited a chosen paper. Provides access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-Present), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (1900-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present) Book Citation Index (2005-present), Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present), and Index Chemicus (1993-present). Coverage Range: 1900-present; Citations Only.
Annual Reviews
Contains review articles that summarize the progress in some particular area or topic. Includes coverage of the biomedical sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, public health, and social sciences. You can search across the entire database or limit your search by subject area. Coverage: 1932-Present (varies by series). Some Full-Text.

HONCode Hunt
Health on the Net specialized search engine for finding reliable health information.

Medline Plus
Portal for finding reliable, up-to-date health information on the internet. Produced by the National Institutes of Health. A Spanish language version is available. Includes a drug information, medical encyclopedia and dictionary, medical news, and interactive health tutorials, and videos.

New York Online Access to Health
Entire site mirrored in Spanish and English. By a cooperative of NY City Libraries, NOAH's mission is to "provide access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased."
HealthFinder.gov
MLA Top Health Websites
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates websites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers.
Families USA
An advocacy and lobbying group for healthcare consumers.

Credo Reference
Includes more than 900 encyclopedic titles from respected publishers in all disciplines taught at Dickinson, including various language dictionaries, the Marquis Who's Who series and numerous other biographical sources, economics and business encyclopedias, food and agriculture sources, publishing sources, atlases, and many encyclopedias covering the arts, history, literature, science, technology, religion, philosophy, politics, psychology, geography, country studies, and more. Full-Text.
ADAM Medical Encyclopedia
English & Spanish versions available. A.D.A.M is written at a level for the general reader, and includes very basic information on diseases and conditions, symptoms, tests, surgeries, etc. It includes many illustrations. Full-Text.

Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial
16 minute audio/visual tutorial on evaluating websites. Covers steps of evaluating websites for authority, funding, quality and privacy protection.
User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
Tips for finding reliable health information on the internet, and criteria for evaluating website quality. From the Medical Library Association.