Suggestions for additions to the list will be most welcome
American Academy
of Orthopedic Surgeons
Many of the documents (newsletters, position papers etcetera) can be
downloaded to a PC. All are Microsoft Word Version 7.0 files. If you do
not have word processing software to view the documents, Microsoft Word
Viewer can also be downloaded. http://www.aaos.org/wordhtml/library.htm
Belinda
This is the database of the Buckinghamshire Health Authority Library.
It holds references to circulars, books and reports held in the library.http://strauss.ihs.ox.ac.uk/belinda.html
British Dental Association
Library Catalogue
The BDA Information Centre computerized database holds unique information
on books, journals, packages and videos held in the library plus some references
to journal articles and other information.
http://www.bda-dentistry.org.uk/infocntr/
British Medical Association Library
Catalogue
Access to catalogues includes: Book collection, Periodical collection
and Film & video collection. http://dynix.bma.org.uk/
British Official Publications
Current Awareness Service
This database is drawn from the extensive Ford Collection of British
Official Publications at Southampton University. They have a subscription
to most items published by HMSO. An ever-increasing amount of official
publishing is now being undertaken by Government departments and they try
to gather as much of this as possible. The database includes records of:
Acts of Parliament (Local and Personal); Acts of Parliament (Public and
General); Command Papers; Departmental Publications; Green Papers; House
of Commons Bills; House of Commons Papers; House of Commons Library Research
Papers; House of Lords Bills; House of Lords Papers and Standing Committee
Reports. http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bopcas/
COIN: Circulars on the Internet
The Department of Health's Internet service providing access to bibliographic
details and the text of Departmental circulars including Executive Letters
since 1997. Also available is full text of all pre-1995 current Local Authority
Circulars (LACs) and Local Authority Social Services Letters (LASSLs) -
for technical reasons, these files have have been placed on the Department's
LACs and LASSLs pages, rather than on COIN. The database presently covers:
Database of Abstracts
of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
DARE is a database of high quality systematic research reviews of the
effectiveness of health care interventions. http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/welcome.html
English National Board Health
Care Database
A database of journal references primarily of interest to nurses, midwives
and health visitors. http://www.enb.org.uk/hcd.htm
European
Clearing House on Health Systems Reform Literature and Research Database
The European Health Systems Reform Network aims to set up a Europe-wide
network of researchers and policy analysts, provide a forum for exchanging
information on health systems reform, promote cross-national policy research
and facilitate rapid feedback into practice, and encourage multi-centre
comparative research. In support of these activities the Network is developing
a database of published and "grey" literature on European health systems
reform, together with details of ongoing research projects. The database
contains information on major changes in the structure and financing of
health services in European Union member states and other European countries.
Topics covered include: Managed care; Competition; The shift from secondary
to primary care; Health insurance; Decentralisation and the Purchaser/Provider
split. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/ECHHSR/dbase.html
Guideline
A very small database of high quality guidelines across a range of
topics, including local guideline priorities as these arise. Guidelines
that are developed locally, as well as national and international ones
are considered for inclusion. Guidelines are obtained from local and national
groups, professional bodies and royal colleges, as well as librarians,
practitioners and other staff across the health service. Literature searches,
other guideline database and the internet are also used. For each guideline
the database provides: (i) a short abstract of the content of the guideline
summarising key features and recommendations; a detailed critical appraisal
giving information about the quality and robustness of the guideline; a
link to the full text of the guideline document where possible.http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/library/Libraryprimarycare.htm#Guidelines
HealthFinder
healthfinder(tm) is a gateway consumer health and human services information
web site from the United States government. healthfinder(tm) can lead you
to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites,
and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and
not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the
public. http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Health Promotion Information
Centre
The HPIC databases from the Health Education Authority are a unique
source of bibliographic references relevant to health promotion. The information
contained on these databases covers a variety of issues and health topics
in a range of formats.
HealthPromis
Health Technology Assessment
Database
The HTA Database contains abstracts produced by INAHTA (International
Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment) and other healthcare
technology agencies. http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/welcome.html
HEBSWEB
Provides access to a number of useful datasets: Support groups database;
Journal articles database; Health information leaflets database; Scotland's
health statistics database; Health promotion projects database and Scottish
HIV & AIDS Initiatives Register (SHAIR) http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/pro.htm
HerbMed®
HerbMed - an interactive, electronic herbal database – provides hyperlinked
access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health.
It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers,
and general public. HerbMed® is a project of the Alternative
Medicine Foundation, Inc, provided as a freely available, public resource.
http://www.amfoundation.org/herbmed.htm
Internet Grateful Med
In addition to MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, PREMEDLINE, and AIDSLINE, this
version of Internet Grateful Med (IGM) offers free access to AIDSDRUGS,
AIDSTRIALS, DIRLINE, HISTLINE, HSRPROJ, OLDMEDLINE, and SDILINE. When first
invoked, Internet Grateful Med is set to search in MEDLINE®. Select
the "Search Other Files" action on the Search Screen to change from MEDLINE
to one of the other databases accessible through IGM.http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
MERLIN
A combined regional catalogue for health libraries in Anglia and Oxford
Region. http://strauss.ihs.ox.ac.uk/region.html
The NCCAM Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index (CCI)
Developed by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine, the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index
(CCI) consists of approximately 180,000 bibliographic citations dated from
1963 through 1999. The CAM citations were extracted from the National Library
of Medicine’s Medline database.
http://nccam.nih.gov/nccam/databases.html
National Guideline Clearinghouse
(U.S.)
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a comprehensive database
of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced
by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), in partnership
with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association
of Health Plans (AAHP). Key components of NGC include: Structured abstracts
(summaries) about the guideline and its development; a utility for comparing
attributes of two or more guidelines in a side-by-side comparison; syntheses
of guidelines covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity
and difference, and links to full-text guidelines, where available. http://www.guidelines.gov/index.asp
National Research Register
The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently
completed research projects funded by the United Kingdom's National Health
Service. The first release contains information on over 28,000 research
projects, as well as entries from the Medical Research Council's Clinical
Trials Register, and details on reviews in progress collected by the NHS
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. http://www.doh.gov.uk/nrr.htm
NHS Economic Evaluations
Database
The NHS Economic Evaluation Database is a database of structured abstracts
of economic evaluations of health care interventions. Cost- benefit analyses,
cost-effectiveness analyses and cost-utility analyses are identified from
a variety of sources and assessed according to set quality criteria. Detailed
structured abstracts are produced. http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/welcome.html
OMNI
OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) is a gateway to Internet
resources in medicine, biomedicine, allied health, health management and
related topics. It aims to provide comprehensive coverage of the UK resources
in this area and access to the best resources worldwide. The collection
is continuously updated by a process of selection, evaluation and description.
http://www.omni.ac.uk
Online Mendelian Inheritance
in Man
OMIM(TM), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. This database is a catalog
of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor
A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed
for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference information.
It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles
and sequence information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/
Outcomes
Activities Database
An Outcomes Activities Database containing a wide range of outcomes
related projects. This forms the basis for networking people working in
similar areas or using similar measures. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/UKCH/oad.html
Outcomes
Literature Database
This database provides details of materials related to the study and
development of methods of assessing changes in health status as the result
of receiving a health or social care intervention. It is intended to inform
those working in the field of outcomes assessment. It contains details
of published and grey literature (unpublished and internal papers and reports)
connected with health outcomes work in all settings within health care
services. Its primary focus is UK, but includes materials on US, European
and Australasian literature. From the end of March 1997, HELMIS, the Health
Management Information Service based within the Nuffield Institute, will
take over the responsibilities of scanning journals for outcomes related
literature. The literature will be included on the HELMIS database, NOT
the Clearing House Literature Database.http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/UKCH/chld.html
Outcomes
Structured Abstracts Database
This database provides information on the literature covering the development
of outcome measures and the measurement of outcomes in various topic areas.http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/UKCH/osad.html
PEDro - Physiotherapy
Evidence Database
PEDro, an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy
(CEBP). PEDro is the Physiotherapy
Evidence Database. It has been developed to give physiotherapists and
others rapid access to bibliographic details and
abstracts of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy. Most trials
on the database have been rated for quality to help you
quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and
interpretable and those which are not.
http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/
PILOTS (Post-traumatic stress
syndrome)
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature
on PTSD and other mental-health sequelae of exposure to traumatic events.
It is available to Internet users through the courtesy of Dartmouth College,
whose computer facilities serve as host to the database. No account or
password is required, and there is no charge for using the PILOTS database.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd
POINT: Publications on the
Internet
the Department of Health's new Internet service which provides access
to bibliographic details of Departmental publications from 1996, with full
text of publications where available electronically. The database will
be updated with new publications as they are published. In order to view,
or print out, full text publications you will need to use Adobe Acrobat
viewer.http://www.doh.gov.uk/pointh.htm
PubMed
NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and
Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related
databases. http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
REHABDATA
This bibliographic database contains the literature of rehabilitation,
disability, and assistive technology published from January 1991- August
1997. http://207.252.36.100/naric.htm
ReFeR
The Research Findings Electronic Register (ReFeR) is a database of
the findings of research studies funded by the Department of Health.
It is freely available providing 'prompt sight' of quality assured information
on research findings that emerge from completed projects funded by the
Department of Health (DH), including the NHS Executive. http://tap.ccta.gov.uk/doh/refr_web.nsf/home?open
Royal College of Nursing Library
Catalogue
The online catalogue of the Royal College of Nursing containing details
of books, reports and theses (plus some journal articles prior to the British
Nursing Index. http://rcn-library.rcn.org.uk/
Royal Society
of Medicine Library Catalogue
The online catalogue contains information on books and reports acquired
from 1984 to the present, all journal titles (with summary holdings) and
most supplements and special issues acquired from 1994 to the present.
Library materials are described in indexed records in the online catalogue.
Searches may be made by typing in a particular word or phrase, or you can
review lists of the library's authors, titles, subjects, series, keywords,
or call numbers. http://www.roysocmed.ac.uk/librar/libcat.htm
South Thames Libraries
Regional Catalogue
The combined catalogue of the health libraries in South Thames Region
http://stlis.thenhs.com/library/index.htm
South and West Region Webcat
The combined catalogue of libraries in South and West England including
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
http://www.swrlin.soton.ac.uk/
Turning
Research Into Practice (TRIP) Database
This resource, hosted by the Centre for Research Support in Wales,
aims to support those working in primary care.The database has 8000 links
covering resources at 28 different centres and allows both boolean searching
(AND, OR, NOT) and truncation. http://www.ceres.uwcm.ac.uk/frameset.cfm?section=trip
WeBNF
The electronic full-text searchable version of the British National
Formulary provides clear, concise and understandable information on the
selection and use of medicines available in the UK.
http://bnf.org/
Wellcome
Information Service Catalogue
Bibliographic details of the books, reports and other material held
by the Information Service. Coverage includes science policy, research
funding, research ethics, public understanding of science, popular science,
science education and careers in science. http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/bookhome.html
Wellcome
Medical Film and Video Library Catalogue
Filmographic details of the films, videos, TV and radio programmes
and other audio-visual materials held by the Wellcome Trust, including
the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Coverage
includes biotechnology, medical genetics, psychiatry and mental health,
neurology, tropical medicine, and medical history. The collection includes
programmes of interest for medical and biomedical educators, documentary
film and television producers, medical historians, secondary school science
teachers and the general public. http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/bookhome.html
Wellcome
SPIN (Science Policy Information News) Database
This database contains summaries of articles related to science policy
from over 150 journals and newspapers. Topics include UK and international
research policy, research funding and management, research ethics and public
understanding of science, published since March 1992. The database is updated
each week. http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/spinhome.html
This resource was last updated on 03/08/2000