Dictionaries (printed)

• Black's medical dictionary / edited by Gordon Macpherson.
  MD – REFERENCE R121 T47 2004
• Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary.
  MD – REFERENCE R121 D73 2003
• Stedman's concise medical dictionary : illustrated.
  MD – REFERENCE R121 S83 1994
  

Dictionaries (Electronic)

• The ASAP Dictionary of Anxiety and Panic Disorders. Arthur Anderson. 1998 - (en)
• Glossary Library of Medicine. National Library of Medicine. 1998 - (en)
• Medical Abbreviations. Adrian M.Padurean. 2001 - (en)
• MedTerms Medical Dictionary Index
• Merriam Webster-Medical Dictionary
• Multilingual Glossary of Technical & Popular Medical terms in 9 European Languages. The European Commission - Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School. 2001 ?
• Online Medical Dictionary. CancerWeb. 1998
• Term and definitions (Office of Rare Diseases). National Institute of Health. 2001 - (en)
  

Encyclopedia (Electronic)

• Adam-Medical Encyclopedia. National Library of Medicine. 2000-En
• Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia (printed)

• The American Medical Association encyclopedia of medicine / medical editor, Charles B. Clayman.
  MD – REFERENCE RC81.A2 A52 1989
• Encyclopedia of medical history / Roderick E. McGrew, with the collaboration of Margaret P. McGrew.
  MD – REFERENCE R133 M34 1985
• The Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine / Kristine Krapp and Jacqueline L. Longe, editors. .
  MD – REFERENCE R733 G34 2001
• The illustrated encyclopedia of body-mind disciplines / Nancy Allison, editor.
  MD – REFERENCE R733 I46 1999
• Mosby's medical & nursing dictionary / Laurence Urdang, editor in chief ; Helen Harding Swallow, managing editor.
  MD – REFERENCE CD-ROM no. 35 c1997
• Saunders dictionary & encyclopedia of laboratory medicine and technology / James L. Bennington ; associate editors, George Brecher ... [et al.] ; assistant editors, Michael J. MD – REFERENCE RB37 B453 1984
• Women in medicine : an encyclopedia / Laura Lynn Windsor.
  MD – REFERENCE R692 W545 2002
  

Electronic Databases

• Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost) (available only from UWI-Mona Campus).
• BiomedCentral is primarily an electronic publishing platform for scientists.
• 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 (available only from UWI-Mona Campus). Provides access to more than 15 databases, including:
  CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
• Medcarib Index to Caribbean Health Literature produced by the Medcarib Network
• Medi Lexicon: Gives free access to the world's largest online database of medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, and biotech abbreviations.
• PubMed - tutorial
• 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. For Links to other databases published by NLM click here NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSRProj, and MEDLINEplus
• Medline Other databases from Bireme
• POPLINE from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Program provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues.

Electronic Journals Useful sites for information on journals available in electronic form include Highwire Press and Free Medical Journal

• British Medical Journal
• Directory of Open Access Journals. (Provides access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals)
• Hardin Meta directory- Free full text articles from PubMed - provide subject searches in free PubMed journals for popular Hardin MD subjects. Also provides a selected list of free PubMed journals.
• JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
• Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries
• JournalWatch: Medicine that Matters
• Public Library of Science (PLos) Medicine Journal (peer-reviewed)
• West Indian medical Journal

 

Internet resources (include Virtual Libraries)

• Best Practice of Medicine“provides continually updated information, resources, and utilities for patients, doctors, and medical staff on all aspects of the practice of medicine. Its central resource is Praxis Medicinea database of nearly three hundred chapters (the HyperReference) and dozens of Field Reports on timely subjects”.
• Bireme (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information Centre)
• Clinical medicine @nature .com
• Clinicaltrials.gov - “ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. “
• Cochrane Library subscription service, abstracts are available without charge
• Complete home and medical guide - from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Cranial Nerves Teaching Site
• Dynamed – Dynamic Medical Information System – “A medical information database with 1,800 clinical topic summaries, designed for use at the point of care.” Registration is free
• The Electronic Textbook of Dermatology
• EMedHome.com
• EMedicine includes links to journals and other resources
• Final Report for the AIDSCAP Program in Jamaica, September 1992 to November 1996
• Freebooks4doctors.com
• Global Directory of Health Information Resource Centers. A directory of health information resource centers; and is arranged alphabetically by country; the directory is maintained by the Health Information for Development project that was launched in 2000 Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources. Maintained by the University of Iowa's Hardin Library for Health Sciences. The purpose of the Hardin Meta Directory is to provide access to the best directory sites in 38 specialties in health/medicine.
• Global Forum for Health Research (All publications are available free of charge upon request)
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health resources – A comprehensive directory of of the “best medical sites on the internet”.
• Healthlink Worldwide. A summary of the organizations activities that provide information on health through specialist programs, publications, resource centers, training and technical support to organizations in developing countries.
• HIV Medicine
• Human Genome: Guide to Online Information Resources from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging
• Malaria : an online resource
• Medbioworld - the largest medical reference site.
• Medical computing Today (Not for profit Website publishing peer reviewed articles on computers and related technology for Physicians and other health related professionals.)
• Medical Conferences
• Medical research@nature.com
• Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada
• MedicalStudent.com - a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine
• MedlinePlus from The National Library of Medicine, provides health information for the consumer
• MedWeb
• Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy
• Merck manual of geriatrics
• National Library of Medicine (US)
• Nature Magazine Genome Gateway
• Neuroscience@nature.com
• Dr. Quinn's Online Textbook of Otolaryngology
• University of the West Indies, (St. Augustune). Medical Sciences Library, Mount Hope
• Virtual Hospital from Iowa University.
• The Web Research Guide. "Elsevier has prepared the guide to help students, faculty members, authors and research scientists find the information they need on the Web."
• World Medical Schools

Audio-visuals

• Basic surgical skills / David A. Sherris, Eugene B. Kern.
  MD – AUDIOVISUAL RD32 S46 1999
• The physiological origins of heart sounds and murmurs [electronic resource] : the unique interactive guide to cardiac diagnosis / John Michael Criley, David Criley,
  MD – AUDIOVISUAL CD-ROM no. 630
• Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary.
  MD – AUDIOVISUAL R121 D73 2003
• Stedman's medical dictionary [electronic resource].
  MD – AUDIOVISUAL CD-ROM 688 2003

 

Academic Departments, Associations, Institutions etc
Jamaican/Caribbean

• Cancer Society of Jamaica
• Caribbean Environmental Health Institute CEHI
• Caribbean Epidemiology Center (CAREC)
• Heart Foundation of Jamaica
• Jamaica AIDS Support
• Jamaica. Ministry of Health
• Juniors Doctors Association (Jamaica)
• Pan American Health Organization - Jamaica

International

• American Association for Cancer Research
• American Botanical Council
• American Medical Association
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Bireme (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information Centre)
• British Medical Association
• Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
• Centre for Health and Population Research
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
• Food and Drug Administration
• General Medical Council
• Health Canada
• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
• The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) is an international health and population research and training institution located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. In collaboration with partners from academic and research institutions throughout the world,conducts research, training as well as extension and programme based activities.
• Medical Education
• National Institute of Health (USA)
• National Cancer Institute (USA)
• National center for emergency medicine informatics - Collection of clinical tools and other resources for patient care in the Emergency Department
• Nutrition Society (U.K)
• Pan American Health Organization
• Royal College of Physicians (with links to the other Royal Colleges)
• Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Wellcome Trust
• World Health Organization

Directories

• Accredited Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada
• Medical Conferences provides detailed information on over 7,000 up-coming conferences, updated daily, accessible through an easy to use search mechanism and details of over 5,700 conference/congress organisers
• Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada
• World Medical Schools

Current Awareness

• Biomail - BioMail is a free small web-based application for medical researchers,
  biologists, and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a
  disease or a biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching
  for recent scientific papers in the PubMed Medline database.
• Eureka Alert - EurekAlert! is an online, global news service focused on all areas of
  science, medicine and technology operated by AAAS, the science society.
  EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities,
  medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other
  organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media.
• FDA News and Publications - Access to quality current information on United States drug and food
  administration aimed at promoting and protecting public health.
• PubCrawler - PubCrawler is a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the
  NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. PubCrawler can keep
  scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by
  listing new database entries that match their research interests.
• Science Daily - ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web
  portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. The full text
  articles are selected from news releases submitted by leading
  universities and other research organizations around the world and
  covers news about the latest discoveries and hottest research projects
  in everything from astrophysics to zoology.
• The Scientist - The mission of The Scientist is to provide compelling print and online
  coverage of the latest developments in life sciences research,
  technology and business. The target audience is active researchers that
  are interested in maintaining a broad view of the life sciences by
  reading articles that are current, concise, accurate and entertaining.
  

 

Liaison Librarian: Faith McKoy-Johnson
Email:faith.mckoyjohnson02@uwimona.edu.jm