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Medline and Health Literature Links

48 Hours Health Library Journal Article Abstracts****
Search access to over 50,000 article abstracts from popular magazines and professional medicine journals going back to the 1980s.

BioMed Central
Web publisher of original, peer-reviewed research, available for free.

BMJ Publications
Free access to over 100 journals in medical research, clinical medicine, physiology, life sciences, and social sciences, including Pediatrics, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The site provides "collected resources" which are groups of recent citations on certain topics, including a collection of literature on medicine in developing countries.

CancerNet
The National Cancer Institute's website. You'll find a wide range of accurate, credible cancer information here, including peer-reviewed statements on many different types of cancers for patients and detailed treatment statements for health care professionals (http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics) , covering state-of-the-art care. You'll also find cancer fact sheets and other publications. All information is updated regularly, has been reviewed by oncology experts and is based on the results of current research. 

HealthGate Medline
Free searches sponsored by advertising. Offers an easy interface that gives users many options to focus queries.

Health Library at Stanford

Internet Grateful Med Medline Search
A service through the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from Medline and other life science journals.

Internet Scientific Publications
Peer-reviewed online journals in over 35 specialties.

Macmillan-Africa
Macmillan Publishers' Africa-specific web site has a substantial health section.

Medscape Medline Search
Free searches sponsored by advertisers with simple registration and passwording. Use the tips to know how to form the search and "and" words together. Integration with Medscape's full-text articles adds to the results of the search.

National Health Council
Links to databases of public and privately sponsored clinical trials being conducted throughout the US.

PubMed Medline Retrieval System
Free access to literature citations and some links to their full-text versions. Includes a "related articles" choice for more information.  GENERAL TIP: You will get better results by using keywords or subjects or a phrase instead of a single word.

WelchWEB
The web site of the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University provides access to journals, books and other resources on-line.