This page provides links to general sites relevant
to the Basic Medical Sciences. For specific subjects go to following:
Anatomy,
Biochemistry,
Pharmacology, Physiology.
Electronic databases
- Academic
Search Elite (EbscoHost) (available only from UWI-Mona
Campus).
- Centre
for Caribbean Health Database of African-Caribbean Health Issues.
- To increase the awareness of healthcare professionals and
the community by facilitiating access to expertise. This computerised
database allows
their field of expertise. It encloses details of individuals,
voluntary sector groups, local community projects and other
organisations who have experience working specifically with
the African-Caribbean population in the UK or who work with
black ethnic minority groups or those who conduct health research
in this area
- First
Search from OCLC (Access restricted
to UWI Students and Staff). Provides access to more than
15 databases, including:
BasicBIOSIS: Covers the basic core of
life science journals. Includes popular and scholarly science
journals.
EconLit: Journals, books, and working papers
on economics
ERIC: Journal articles and reports on education
topics
GPO: U.S. government publications
MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including
dentistry and nursing
MLA: Indexes books, essay collections,
working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies
in literature, language and linguistics,
WilsonSelectPlus: Full text articles in
science, humanities, education and business
WorldCat: OCLCcatalog of books, web resources,
and other material worldwide
- HighWire Press
(Journals database) (Provides access to over 15 million articles
from over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 839,086 free full
text articles from 825 HighWire-hosted journals in the Biological,
Physical, Medical and Social Sciences.
- Medline
/PubMed The National Library of Medicine's search service
that provides access to over 10 million citations in Medline,
PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating
online journals
- ProQuest
(Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff.) providing
access to:
ABI/INFORM
Global includes 1800 worldwide business periodicals
for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions,
management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising,
marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation,
computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast
access to information on 60,000 + companies with business
and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal
Academic
Research Library
Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business,
children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences,
social sciences, and women's interests.
- SwetsWise
(Click on login via IP authentication)
- Web of Science
- Science Citation Index expanded with 5 years backfiles.
Internet resources
Academic Departments/Associations/Institutions etc
Liaison Librarian: Myrna Douglas
Email:myrna.douglas@uwimona.edu.jm
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