Selected websites for the Health Sciences 

Stellenbosch University Library Service Afrikaans 

                                                        

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome  Alerts & Feeds, Current Awareness & Health News |Author Instructions | Citing & Information management  Complementary & Alternative medicine | Consumer Health Dictionaries | e-Books | Education in health sciences | Evidence-Based Medicine | Food Science | Open access journals | Fulltext | Health Sciences Faculties, South Africa  | History of Medicine | Images JAMA Topic Collections |  Portals & Search Engines Newspapers |  Nursing | Organisations, Associations & Government  | Organisations / International  | Pharmacy | Publishers, booksellers, multimedia  Reference Tools RSS |Services at Tygerberg Campus | Statistics (SA and World) | Theses & Dissertations  Tutorials  

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome & HIV

20 Years of Aids

AIDS Foundation of South Africa

HIV -911  has developed a vast referral network of HIV-related services and to network with like-minded organisations

UNAIDS  The joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic.

UNICEF. Aids

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Author Instructions

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences - Produced by the Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio.  This site provides links to "authors instructions" in hundreds of health sciences journals.

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - From the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

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Citing electronic (& print) sources & information management

Abbreviations for journals indexed by MEDLINE & other electronic sources

APA Electronic Reference Formats 

International committee of medical journal editors

 

ISIHighlyCited.com an expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide.

Plagiarism and referencing/citing of resources

Refworks

 

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Complementary & Alternative medicine

Dietary Supplements

HOM-Inform Database of indexed literature references in homoeopathy produced by the British Homeopathic Library at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. Features more thatn 25,000 article and book references.

International bibliographic information on Dietary supplements (IBIDS)  very comprehensive database through partnership between Food and Nutrition Information Centre at the National Agricultural Library. Provides abstracts and advanced searching options for international literature on dietary supplements, as well as complementary & alternative medicine in general 

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Consumer Health

CDC Health Topics A - Z - From the Centre for Disease Control

Health Finder - A gateway to consumer health information from the United States government

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis

MEDLINEplus - from the National Library of Medicine

UpToDate for patients  - Consult the medical resource doctor's trust to learn more about a medical condition, better understand management and treatment options.

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Current Awareness and RSS

Current Bibliographies in Medicine - Each bibliography in this series covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. From NLM, the National Library of Medicine.

The Scientific world  - provides free article alerts from 20,000+ journals.

Sara Scholarly Articles Research Alerting is a service designed to deliver by e-mail, tables of contents for any issue of Carfax, Martin Dunitz, Psychology Press, Routledge or Taylor & Francis journals to anyone who has requested the information. This service is completely free of charge.

Web of Science  - Instructions for the editing and running of saved queries are available on Web of Science. 

 

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Dictionaries

Dictionaries  - Provides numerous links to linguistic and specialized (medical) dictionaries, originally from Bucknell University.

Medical Dictionaries

Medical eponyms  A comprehensive biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Aim is to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

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Education in the Health Sciences

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Evidence-Based Medicine

Bandolier - Features short evaluations/discussions of individual articles dealing with evidence-based clinical practice.

Centre for Evidence based medicine from Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford. How to Learn, teach and practice EBM.

Cochrane Library

E-Medicine  - World medical library (some information may be fee-based)

Evidence Based Medicine Tutorial from the University of Warwick

OTSeeker Occupational therapy database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised

Pedro   is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines 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...

P.I.C.O  is a method of putting together a search strategy that allows you to take a more evidence based approach to your literature searching when you are searching bibliographic databases

Pubmed 

Related Sources for searching for systematic reviews

S A Health info - For reviews, including evidence-based health information focusing on Southern Africa.

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Food Science

Food Science Central - A platform for new scientific information, products & services.

FSTA  Food science & Technology Abstracts - This database contains international literature on food science, technology, and human nutrition. Links to selected full-text articles is provided.

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Full-text  

E-Newspapers

E-Theses and dissertations @ Stellenbosch

JAMA Topic Collections select "Collections"  or stay connected with e-mail alerts. To view articles published in JAMA on the topic. You can sign up to receive a Collection E-Mail Alert when new articles on specific topics are published.

JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collections
The JAMA & Archives Collections include all the JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collection terms with articles indexed across all issues of JAMA & Archives Journals from January 1998 forward.

Journals@OVID - Lippincott Williams & Wilkens  jounals 

E-Journals @ Stellenbosch

MDConsult  

Open access journals

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Health Sciences Faculties, South-Africa

University of Cape Town. Health Sciences FacultyUniversity of Cape Town. Health Sciences Faculty

Uniiversity of Natal. Faculty of Medicine

University of Pretoria. Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Health Sciences

University of the Free State. Faculty of Health Sciences

University of the Witwatersrand. Faculty of Health Sciences

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History of Medicine

 

Greek Medicine - Medicine from the Gods to Galen

Hippocratic Oath  from Harvard Classics, Volume 38. Boston: P.F. Collier and Son, 1910

History of medicine Images Provides access to nearly 60,000 prints & photograph collection images in the Hisory of Medicine Division of the US National Library of Medicine.   The collection includes portraits, pictures and caricatures.

MedHist The history of medicine gateway to evaluated, high quality Internet resources in the history of medicine and alled sciences. It provides access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources. 

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Images

From Access Medicine

MedPix Medical Image database. Peer-reviewed teaching files. Free registration required.

Sciencemagazine Multimedia pulls together a variety of features built around images, online video, and audio that can be found on the Science sites.Listen to weekly audiocasts on stories featured in Science and its online companion sites and more.

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JAMA Topic Collections select "Collections"  or stay connected with e-mail alerts. To view articles published in JAMA on the topic. You can sign up to receive a Collection E-Mail Alert when new articles on specific topics are published.

JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collections The JAMA & Archives Collections include all the JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collection terms with articles indexed across all issues of JAMA & Archives Journals from January 1998 forward.

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Medical portals & Search Engines

Achoo Gateway to Healthcare

Best of the best Megasites

BIOME   A collection of gateways that provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. It is based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library.

Clusty  queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. The search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items.

DocMD.com The ultimate physician and healthcare resource.  Provides new information and links to useful medical information available on the internet.

E-Medicine

Google Scholar

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources

Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups.

HealthWeb  provides organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources.

Hippocratic Oath  from Harvard Classics, Volume 38. Boston: P.F. Collier and Son, 1910.

Human Genome Project Information  

Infomine is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

Institutional Repository at Stellenbosch. Access to US Theses/Dissertations

Megasite project - Compares health information megasites and search engines

Medscape  offers free access to Medline, more than 200 free CME courses, 25 medical speciality sites, more than 100 free medical journals, conference coverage and daily medical news.

MedWeb  by Emory University.

National Electronic library for health a portal from NHS, United Kingdom.

National Library of Medicine  contains details about all of the services offered by the NLM. This includes services such as PubMed, the Visible Human Project, the history of medicine, and links to sources of Health information.

OMNI offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering health medicine.

Scirus

South African health information

The Virtual Hospital  A digital library of health information.

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News & newspapers 

CNN Interactive - Health

Health24

MedServ Medical News

NIH - News & Events 

Reuters Health Information Services

Click here for more

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Nursing

Hardin Meta Directory: Nursing

HealthWeb Nursing

Internet Resources for Nurse Practitioners

Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center

Nursing History from Brownson's Nursing Notes

NursingNet

NurseGroups.com  Nursing resources on the  Internet

SpringNet for Nurses

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Organisations, Associations & Government

Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)

Health Systems Trust 

HPCSA Health Professions Council of South Africa

Medical Library Association

Medical Research Council

Science Careers

South Africa. Dept of Health

South African Government Information

South African Medical Association

South African Government Online

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Organisations / International

PLoS a non-profit organization whose mission is to make reliable scientific and medical literature a public resource has two open-access journals PLoS Biology and PLos Medicine.

Unicef

United Nations

World Health Organization

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Pharmacy

Centre for International Ethno-medical Education and Research

FDA  

FDA's Drug Information  

FDA's Electronic Orange Book   Approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations.

FDA's OTC Drugs Over-the-Counter Drugs

Biotechnology

Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Toxicology

HealthWeb: Pharmacy & Pharmacology

Industry News - from pharmacyandtherapeutic.com

Martindale's Virtual Pharmacy

PharmWeb

RxList

TOXNET  - Toxicology Data Network from the National Library of Medicine

Virtual Library Pharmacy

World-class Drug Information by Gold Standard Multimedia Network. Free registration.

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Publishers & Booksellers

Amazon.com

Alibris for new-, used- and rare titles

AtlasBooks

Barnes & Noble online bookseller

Blackwells

Cambridge University Press

CRC Press

Elsevier Health Sciences medical publishers

Greenwich Medical Media Ltd Publishers of medical books

HarperCollins

Humana Press Scientific & medical publishers

Internet Bookshop Europe's Largest Online Bookshop

JosseyBass 

Juta Academic

Kalahari.net

LWW Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Textbook Publisher

Multimedia Video & CDROM

Nottingham University Press

Oxford University Press

National Academy Press publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.

Palgrave  represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests of WH Freeman, Worth Publishers, Sinauer Associates, University Science Books and Scientific American Medicine Books in the UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India and Pakistan.

Pan American Health Online Bookstore

Publishers & Booksellers, Research (general)

Quality Medical Publishing publish in a number of surgical specialities
 

Radcliffe Medical Press

Sage Publications

Scarecrow Press

Springer Science Online

Taylor & Francis

Thieme Medical Publishers 

VanSchaik

WHO Press

Wiley

Wisepress Online Bookshop

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Reference Tools

Accredited journals

Author Instructions

Citation machine Free citation formatting aid

Citing Electronic (& Print) Sources

Dictionaries

Plagiarism and referencing/citing of resources

Refworks

Science Careers networking for scientists, tips for writing a good CV and much  more

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RSS

RSS Feeds 

Science Direct Current awareness with RSS

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Statistics Sources (World or International)

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Statistics South Africa

UNICEF Statistical data

United Nations

WHOSIS. WHO Statistical information system  a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.

World Health Organization

World Health report  from the WHO

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Theses and Dissertations

Nexus database  reflects research that is done in South Africa in the humanities and social sciences. Includes information for current and completed research, research networking and research organisations. US Library clients phone 021-8084884 for login codes.

University of Stellenbosch. Electronic Theses and dissertations. Access>>

University of Pretoria.  Electronic Theses and dissertations

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Tutorials 

Avoidance of plagiarism

Cinahl   scroll down to find Cinahl basic and advanced searching tutorials under Product Specific Tutorials.

Citing of references & Paraphrasing/quoting  Including when to cite, what to cite and how to cite

The Cochrane Library short demonstrations designed to provide quick and informative overviews to end users

Ebrary Books  Help with searching strategies

EBSCOhost

Google Reader Tutorial

Library Catalogue training guide

MD Consult tutorial takes less than 5 minutes to load.

Metalib

OVID Tutorial  Leer die basiese  van OVID soektogte  - verskaf deur "OVID Training and documentation".

Pubmed

Pubmed Help

RDN Virtual Training Suite - A set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. You can work in your own time at your own pace - no one is monitoring you! The tutorials take around one hour to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience.

Science Direct

Science Direct Current awareness with RSS

ScienceDirect Alerts

Write- N-Cite

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